Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo

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Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo
Aerial view of the island
Aerial view of the island
Waters Atlantic Ocean
Archipelago Azores
Geographical location 37 ° 42 '20 "  N , 25 ° 26' 34"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 42 '20 "  N , 25 ° 26' 34"  W.
Location of Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo
length 420 m
width 320 m
surface 6.2 ha
Highest elevation 62  m
Residents uninhabited
Lagoa do Ilheu de Vila Franca do Campo crater lagoon
Lagoa do Ilheu de Vila Franca do Campo crater lagoon

Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo , sometimes just called Ilhéu de Vila , is a small island off the coastal town of Vila Franca do Campo on the Azores island of São Miguel .

geography

The island with a total area of ​​61,640 m² is about 500 meters off the coast. It is up to 62 meters high and 420 meters long in an east-west direction. The island consists of a single volcanic vent , the crater wall of which is broken on the north side towards the sea. This created the almost circular crater lagoon Lagoa do Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo with a diameter of 150 meters, which is often used as a “natural swimming pool” by locals and tourists during the summer months. In the east of the island are the rocks Baixa da Cozinha and Farilhão .

Flora and fauna

The higher areas of the Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo are dominated by no longer cultivated vineyards. In two places there are “forests” of ironwood trees ( Metrosideros tomentosa ). Most of the island is overgrown with the endemic tree heather ( Erica azorica ). A plant community of rock fescue ( Festuca petraea ), rush ( Juncus acutus ), wild carrot ( Daucus carota ), long-lived goldenrod ( Solidago sempervirens ) and sea ​​fennel ( Crithmum maritimum ) can be found on the cliff coast .

Two species of seabirds breed on the island's inaccessible rocks , the yellow-billed shearwater and the common tern . The shearwater , the Madeira wave runner and the rose tern also occur, but they do not breed here.

Web links

Commons : Ilhéu de Vila Franca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pedro Rodrigues, Joana Micael, Roshan K. Rodrigo, Regina T. Cunha: A Conservational approach on the seabird populations of Ilhéu de Vila Franca do Campo, Azores, Portugal (PDF; 183 kB). In: Açoreana 6, 2009: pp. 217–225 (English)