São Miguel “the green island”, considered by many prettiest - and, without a doubt, diverse of the islands of Azores, does not have to surprise to us that many tourists begin their experience of Azores in São Miguel, the main island of Azores. There is no visitor to whom they do not impress the incredible myriad to him of all the different tones from green that they are exhibited in his great prairies, forests, plantations of tobacco and tea as well as the abundance of other colors that this island offers, an authentic cure for the senses.
This mountainous island is of the volcanic like the rest of archipelago and easily reconocible origin by two volcanic, separated bulks by a chain of basaltic cones that reach heights of to 500 meters in the central part of the 200 zone the west. The tip upper of the island with 1.150 meters is the Tip gives Twig and that comprises final of the bulk of the east, while the Tip gives Cross with 850 meters of height over the level of the sea is upper of the Eastern bulk. In center of the island the Serra rises gives Water of Pau, a mountain range that reaches a height of 940 meters of height. The craters of Sete Cidades, Fogo, and Furnas has become with the centuries mysterious mountain lakes with blue and green impressive crystalline waters of; nowadays they represent one of the main tourist attractions.