Vila do Porto is the single municipality, the name of the main town and one of the civil parishes on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese archipelago of Azores. Its nearest neighbor, administratively, is the municipality of Povoação on the southern coast of São Miguel, and it is physically southwest of the islets of the Formigas. The population in 2021 was 5,408, in an area of 96.89 km2 (37.41 sq mi).
View of Vila do Porto from outside of the Hotel Colombo
From Pico Alto, the view of the main settlement of the island of Santa Maria, the community of Vila do Porto
Vila do Porto is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Porto, located on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese autonomous region of Azores. It is the southernmost and easternmost parish in the archipelago of Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,119, in an area of 25.55 km².
The secluded village of Valverde, literally green-valley, near the eastern border of the parish of Vila do Porto
The Church of Nossa Senhora da Assunção, as seen in 1902
A Fiat G.91 from the Força Aérea Portuguesa in the region of Aeroporto, former military airbase
The view of the parish, as seen from the Hotel Colombo
