Corvo Island is the smallest and the northernmost island of the Azores archipelago and the northernmost in Macaronesia. It has a population of 435 inhabitants making it the smallest single municipalit
The island of Corvo as seen from the Corvo-Flores Channel
The perspective from the island of Flores
The view of the pasturelands of Zimbral
A panorama of the Caldeirão, the remnants of the last Plinian eruption on the island of Corvo, as seen from the crater rim around Malaguetas
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
Corvo Island
…Corvo Island (Portuguese: Ilha do Corvo, pronounced , lit. 'Island of the Crow') is the smallest and the northernmost island of the Azores archipelago and the northernmost in Macaronesia. It has a population of 435 inhabitants (as of 2023) making it the smallest single municipality in the…
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.
Under the direction of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Azores were discovered and populated in the early 1400s.
The Battle of Terceira, part of the War of the Portuguese Succession
King-Emperor Pedro IV & I planned and launched his campaign in the Liberal Wars from the Azores in name of his daughter Queen Maria II