Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Azores
Detourmap lists 44 places in Azores, Portugal, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: São Miguel Island. 26 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 44
- Oldest
- 1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash 1949
- Little known
- 26 of 44
- Share of Portugal
- 11%
Azores 44
All 44, best known first.
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17.1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Aviation accident
Elsewhere in Portugal
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Azores?
São Miguel Island. Island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Azores?
44: 43 nature & landscapes and 1 archaeological & historic sites. 26 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Azores?
1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash, dated to 1949. 4 of the 44 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Azores here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Azores if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Azores is a first-level division of Portugal, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.