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Caldeirão do Corvo
Discover the crater of the old volcano of Corvo Island, in Azores, Portugal
Caldeirão do Corvo
© Maurício DRT
Caldeirão do Corvo is the crater of an extinct volcano, which occupies a great part of Corvo Island in the Azores Archipelago, Portugal.
The crater occupies around 2,400 square metres (of the 17,100 the island has), and is around 300 metres depth.
It is recommendable to approach to it by foot (a walk of around 6 kilometres long), although if you prefer it you can arrive by a steep road. In the tour you can observe plenty of basalt palheiros (haylofts) used by farmers to keep the fodder and the tools. From the ledge you can admire the soft peaks surrounding it: Serrão Alto (around 663 metres) and Morro dos Homens (of 720 metres, the highest peak of the island); named like that due to its service as hideout during the pirates attacks.
On the inside of the crater there are two lakes which bring an insolit feeling, similar to a ship which water is breaking into it, as if the sea surrounding the island was going inside little by little. In this area, there is almost no laurisilva vegetations. This plant characterises this area due to the need of useful land for the inhabitants of the island, that parcelled up all the empty spaces with small stone walls and used them for natural pastures.
It should be emphasized that there is a hiking route that lasts around 40 minutes and goes down to the bottom of the crater.
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