Corvo Island is the smallest and the northernmost island of the Azores Archipelago and the northernmost in Macaronesia, with a population of approximately 468 inhabitants (2006) constituting the smallest single municipality in Azores and in Portugal.
History
The Medici Atlas refers to an Insula Corvi Marini ("Island of the Marine Crow"), in a seven island archipelago.
The navigator Diogo Teive discovered both western group islands group Flores & Corvo on 1452 on his return from the Banks of Newfoundland.
By the beginning of the 19th Century emigration continued specially between 1925 and 1955 looking for economic security and continued until the 1980s.
Human Geography
There is one urban center on the island: Vila do Corvo. The urbanized area is divided between the village, the Corvo Aerodrome, and the island's ports .The lands around are small zones along the eastern coast (Quintas and Fojo) that can sustain cultivation of some crops and fruit trees.
Climate
The climate is humid, comfortable and sometimes windy.
You can spend a day in Corvo or a few relaxing days in this small island that has a good place to sleep !
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