It is the smallest and inhospitable island in the Azores. Its natural beauty, however, is unforgettable.
The Crow owes its name to a group of migratory birds, cormorants, which abounded on the island when the Portuguese arrived in the fifteenth century. It is located in the western group of the nine islands that form the archipelago of the Azores. Having been discovered in conjunction with the island of Flores, in the year of 1452, by the navigator Diogo Teive. The first effective settlement of this territory came almost sixty years later. A final colony composed almost exclusively by African slaves and some Moors who helped with this first phase to thin out the thick forest where the inhabitants took cedar wood, white wood, laurel, holly and tamujos for building ships. Later, these forced "community" served to keep cattle and perform all kinds of farm work of settlers in the island. Interestingly, like other in times residents in our days survive on agriculture and livestock exports. Although being an island, the inhabitants of Corvo have no special vocation for fishing. The fishing industry is seen as a complement to food. According to the encyclopedia XXI of the Azores, Corvo Island, "is composed of a single extinct volcanic mountain, with a broad crater called Cauldron subsidence, with 3.7 km of perimeter and 300 m deep. It can be observed several lakes with an area of truffle seedlings. The island's highest point is Morro Men's edge in the south of the Cauldron, with 718 m altitude above the average level of the sea. The whole coast is steep and craggy, forming the central cone of the volcano, with the exception of the southern part, where a lava fajã settled in Vila of Corvo, the only town on the island. The west slope, with an almost vertical cliff about 700 meters above the ocean, is one of the highest elevations in the existing coastal Atlantic. "
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