Conceição is a freguesia in the district of Ribeira Grande in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 2,425, in an area of 12.73 km². It is situated on the north coast of the island. Together with the
The northern margin of Lagoa do Fogo (foreground), on the southern border of the parish
The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is an archipelago of Portugal, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km west of the Portuguese mainland. Politically and administratively, toge
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.