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Location:
Europe,
Portugal, Corvo
Category:
Coastal view
Description:
View of Vila do Corvo,
Aerodrome and the coast
Location Information:
Corvo
is the smallest municipality in the
Portuguese archipelago of the
Azores, constituting the island of
Corvo in its entirety. It is the
least populated of the Portuguese
municipalities, and the only
Portuguese municipality, by law,
without a civil parish (freguesia,
the smallest administrative unit in
Portugal).
Vila do Corvo, has at times been
wrongly referred to as Vila Nova do
Corvo. The village, the unique
agglomeration on the island of Corvo,
is constructed of small homes
located along narrow roadways and
alleys rising along the hills of the
southern one-third of the island.
The coastal area of the village is
dominated by the Corvo Aerodrome and
ports linking the community to the
outside world.
Corvo Island (Portuguese: Ilha do
Corvo "Island of the Crow", is the
smallest and the northernmost island
of the Azores Archipelago and the
northernmost in Macaronesia, with a
population of approximately 468
inhabitants constituting the
smallest single municipality in
Azores and in Portugal.
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