Santa Bárbara (Ponta Delgada)

Santa Bárbara (Portuguese for Saint Barbara) is a parish in the district of Ponta Delgada in the Azores. The population in 2001 is 880, its density is 101.0/km² and the area is 8.71 km². Santa Barbara became a freguesia on April 1st 1986 independent from Sant Antonio. It is located in the northwestern part of the island of São Miguel and is connected by roads linking Mosteiros and Ribeira Grande. The mountains which are covered with lovely "laurisilva" trees are to the southwest while the Atlantic Ocean lies to the northeast. The main industry are agriculture. Farmlands dominate within the coastline while the mountainous areas cover the rest of Santa Bárbara. is accessed with a bus route linking to Ponta Delgada.

Nearest parishes

*Santo António, east and south
*Sete Cidades, southwest
*Remédios, northwest

Geography

*Location:
**Latitude: 37.75 (37°45') N
**Longitude: 25.733 (25°44') W
*Altitude: 300 m (917 ft)

Other

Santa Bárbara has a school, a church, and a square ("praça"). It also has a restaurant(Cavalo Branco)a soccer field and the amazing views of green landscape

External links

*http://www.azoren-online.com/saomiguel/tipps/sehenswuerdigkeiten/santabarbara/index.shtml (in German)
*Map and aerial photos
** [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=37.75&longitude=&25.733zoom=6 Street map from Mapquest] , [http://maps.msn.com/map.aspx?&lats1=37.75&lons1=-25.733&alts1=35 MapPoint] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?|=37.75,-25.733 Google]
** [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/map.aspx?t=1&s=14&lon=25.733&lat=37.75&w=750&h=500 Aerial photograph from Microsoft Terraserver] or [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.75,-16.733&spn=0.11,0.18&t=k Google]
*Coordinates: coord|37|45|0|N|25|44|0|W|