Subdivisions of Azores (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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Municipalities

Azores contains 19 municipalities:

• Angra do Heroismo
• Calheta (São Jorge)
• Corvo
• Horta
• Lages das Flores
• Lages do Pico
• Lagoa
• Madalena (Pico)
• Nordeste
• Ponta Delgada
• Povoação
• Praia da Vitória
• Ribeira Grande
• Santa Cruz da Graciosa
• Santa Cruz das Flores
• São Roque do Pico
• Velas
• Vila do Porto
• Vila Franca do Campo

The hawk holding a quina in municipal heraldry stand for the Azores — these charges appear in nearly all the azorean municipal coats of arms.
Jorge Candeias, 31 May 1998

The problem is that every azorean municipal coat of arms with that goshawk (15 out of 19 municipalities) shows it a little different — and often the same coat of arms has appreciable differences in various depictions.
António Martins, 29 Mar 1999

Algarvan heads and azorean goshawk are the only distinctive regional charges in our municipal heraldry (plus the star in the municipalities of the Estrela Range region, though in a much lesser degree), having all the other charges a more loca