page_title: Fajãzinha
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Fajãzinha / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Azores, Flores, Fajãzinha Deutsch: Azoren, Flores, Fajãzinha
context_page_description: Fajãzinha is a civil parish in the municipality of Lajes das Flores located 15 kilometres from the main town of Lajes das Flores, on the western coast of Portuguese island of Flores. The population in 2011 was 76, in an area of 6.16 square kilometres. It contains the localities Fajãzinha and Ladeiras.
context_section_description: The parish is located on the west coast of the Flores, south of the Fajã Grande, and extends through an irregular plain that includes four crater-lakes: Lagoa Funda (Deep Lake, which is 108 metres (354 ft) deep), Lagoa Comprida (Long Lake), Lagoa Branca (White Lake), and Lagoa Seca (Dry Lake).  It is an area of many peat-bogs, and forests of endemic plants, including the cedro-do-mato (Azorean juniper), used by local artisans. Nearby is the waterfall, Cascata da Ribeira Grande.
  Fajãzinha is intersected by the Ribeira Grande, a major river/rapids on the island, which, apart from its crystalline waters, is known for its innumerable floods.  Father José António Camões, in his work Roteiro Exacto da Costa da Ilha, mentions the following:
  Passing that population you will encounter Ribeira Grande, which divides this parish...its exaggerated force and impetuousness, which is truly great. The waters fall from a formidable height, extreme in the parish of Fajãzinha, from a height of 200 braças [440 metres, 1,440 ft] it falls; it incorporates and aggregates all the waters of the headlands, which demarcate the parish, from the east to southwest, which is the river-valley of the blacksmiths, four grottoes, without name in the Rocha do Velho, the grotto do Enchente, whose waters increase in volume and become furious in the winter, and also when there is rain in the summer, its invariable.
  The region is a natural jewel, that  João Vieira wrote:
  “Along the difficult, the hand of  man, with much sweat, constructed a church  and houses, opened a road  where heavy trucks cross, means of communication with the rest of the  island.  It's an admirable example of the implantation in the land and  harmony with  nature.  Seen from above, the houses, maybe because of  jealousy, run to the seas, accompanying Ribeira Grande, which has for four centuries have filled the navigable waters that crossed between the  Old and New World.  Between cereal fields of corn that circle the white  homes, a road of black asphalt serpentine between greenery.  If a  biblical paradise existed by the sea...we could think that this corner  was part of it...
  The 2011 Lorca earthquake was responsible for creating a special wetland around the coast of Fajazinha. Baptized the Lagoa do Rolo, it has become the most westerly lake in Europe, although it is considerably small, spawning a small habitat for migrating birds from North America, during the fall (including the hawfinch and the hooded merganser).
caption: The valley of Fajazinha, bounded in the west by the Atlantic and surrounded by the cliffs on the remaining sides
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