Ribeira Seca (Vila Franca do Campo)
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Ribeira Seca is a parish in the district of Vila Franca do Campo
Vila Franca do Campo
Vila Franca do Campo is a town and a municipality in the southern part of the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Autonomous Region of the Azores...

 in the Azores
Azores
The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

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History

On June 2002, the parish was split from the neighboring São Miguel
São Miguel (Vila Franca do Campo)
São Miguel is a parish in the municipality of Vila Franca do Campo in the Azores. The population in 2001 was 4047, its density was 321.19/km² and the area was 12.6 km²...

. Prior to that was a settlement and a subdivision.

Geography

Ribeira Seca has a small school, a church and a square (praça).
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