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Corvo, Azores

Vila do Corvo
Municipality (Concelho)
Azoren Corvo Vila Nova.jpg
Vila do Corvo, as seen from Portão lookout, including Aerodrome and settlement
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Coat of arms
Official name: Concelho da Vila do Corvo
Name origin: corvo, Portuguese for crow
Country  Portugal
Region  Azores
Island Corvo
Localities Vila do Corvo, Enseada de Noss Senhora
do Rosário,
Calçada
Landmark Nossa Senhora dos Milagres
Center Vila do Corvo
 - elevation 36 m (118 ft)
 - coordinates 39°40′22″N 31°6′52″W / 39.67278°N 31.11444°W / 39.67278; -31.11444Coordinates: 39°40′22″N 31°6′52″W / 39.67278°N 31.11444°W / 39.67278; -31.11444
Highest point
 - location Estreitinho, Caldeirão
 - elevation 718 m (2,356 ft)
 - coordinates 39°41′55″N 31°6′40″W / 39.69861°N 31.11111°W / 39.69861; -31.11111
Lowest point Sea level
 - location Atlantic Ocean
 - elevation 0 m (0 ft)
Area 17.11 km2 (7 sq mi)
 - water .31 km2 (0 sq mi)
 - urban .11 km2 (0 sq mi)
Population 430 (2011)
Density 25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Settlement c.1475-1503
 - Parish c.1674
 - Town/Municipality 20 June 1832
LAU Câmara Municipal
 - location Rua do Jogo da Bola
 - elevation 34 m (112 ft)
 - coordinates 39°40′22″N 31°6′48″W / 39.67278°N 31.11333°W / 39.67278; -31.11333
President Manuel das Pedras Rita (PS)
Municipal Chair Oscar Manuel Rocha (PS)
Timezone Azores (UTC-1)
 - summer (DST) Azores (UTC0)
Postal Zone 9980-024
Area Code & Prefix (+351) 292 XX XX XX
Demonym Corvense
Patron Saint Nossa Senhora dos Milagres
Municipal Holidays 20 June
Status Regional Protected Group
Conjunto Regional Protegido
Listing Regional Government of the Azores, Resolution 69/97; Jornal da Região Autonoma dos Açores 15 (10 April 1997); included in the Natura 2000 Network Special Protection Zone (ZPE) Zona de Protecção Especial da Costa e Caldeirão
Location of the municipality of Corvo in the archipelago of the Azores
Website: http://www.cm-corvo.pt
Statistics from INE (2001); geographic detail from Instituto Geográfico Português (2010)

Vila do Corvo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkoɾvu]) is the smallest municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, constituting the island of Corvo in its entirety. With a population of 430 in 2011, 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). Its area is 17.11 square kilometres (6.61 sq mi).

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.

The history of the Azores is linked to non-official exploration during the period of the late 13th century in maps, such as the Genoese Atlas Medici (1351). Although it did not specify an island of Corvo, the Medici Atlas did refer to an Insula Corvi Marini (Island of the Marine Crow), in a seven-island archipelago. A later Mapa Catalão (Catalan Map), from Spain, referred to two islands of Corvo and Flores in 1375.

During Portuguese official history the Western Group was discovered during the navigator Diogo de Teive and his son's (João de Teive) 1452 return from the Banks of Newfoundland, after his second voyage of exploration. The Portuguese Court began to refer to the new Ilhas das Flores (Islands of Flowers), identifying Corvo as the Ilha de Santa Iria (Island of Saint Irene), but other nautical charts continued to refer to this island as the Ilhéu das Flores (Islet or Island of Flowers), Ilha da Estátua (Island of the Statute), Ilha do Farol (Island of the Lighthouse) or Ilha de São Tomás (Island of Saint Thomas). The island was placed under the control of Diogo Teive, who became the first Captain-Donatário.


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