ACHADA
(Parish of Nordeste Municipality)
37.85732, -25.26003
Achada is a freguesia ("civil parish") in Nordeste municipality on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 436, in an area of 11.89 km2.
History
The area known as Achada, once referred to as Achada Grande, was originally populated in the first have of the 16th century. Its name was derived from the Portuguese phrase terra achanada which means flatland and was first mentioned by the historian Father Gaspar Frutuoso in Saudades da Terra. These lands were originally occupied and administered by Antão Rodrigues da Câmara, a descendant of the third Capitain-Donatário of São Miguel, but were sold, then tilled and sold to other settlers.
By 1526 the village had its own parochial church to the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Anunciação (English: Our Lady of the Annunciation) where members of the religious orders resided locally. The temple was the result of various remodeling projects starting at the end of 1782 until 1984.
Since the 16th century, Achada has been a religious (later civil) parish, but it was only annexed into the municipality of Nordeste in 1820 (having previously pertained to the Ribeira Grande municipality).
Economy
ts fertile lands, which extend the length of the Achada plain, have been the source of the region's economy. Agriculture and dairy production is typical in this area, including cereal crops and tubers. A small port was commercially important until the 20th century when most exports were handled from Ponta Delgada. Today, potatoes and corn are the principal crops cultivated in the area, where the harvested materials are used for feed in the raising of cattle.
Culture
Festivities
Traditional festivals occur in August and include a diverse program of events such as the traditional barracas with native foods and drink. The primary events occur around the Império da Achada, when the annual feasts of the Divine Holy Spirit are celebrated that include meat-broth soups accompanied with local wines, traditional sweet bread (Portuguese: massa sovada), and sweet rice desserts.
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ACHADINHA
(Parish of Nordeste Municipality)
37°50′59″N 25°17′11″W
Achadinha is a Portuguese parish of the Northeast municipality, with 13.86 km² of area and 463 inhabitants (2021 census). Its population density is 33.4 inhabitants/km².
History
Achadinha is one of the oldest localities in Nordeste municipality, referred to by Gaspar Frutuoso in his chronicle, Saudades da Terra. The region settlement dates to the early colonization of the island, when a man from the Serra da Estrela region of northern Portugal established a stake along the coast. This man constructed a farm and cleared a roadway. It grew to be the principal link to this parish.
Around the 16th century, Achadinha was inhabited by 123 people in 43 homes. A small temple was constructed to the invocation of Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Our Lady of the Rosary), which was served by its first vicar Pêro Vieira. By the end of the 19th century, the small chapel was substituted by a three-nave church.
Achadinha, during the 17th century, was still little more than a small settlement, distant and isolated from the great centres, such as Vila Franca do Campo and Ponta Delgada. This was a land where isolation was commonplace, the winters strong and the people lived off of the land. Many of the inhabitants walked barefoot, wearing shabby rags, made of linen, in a region that was distant from any other centre.
It was in Achadinha that Liberal forces disembarked during the Liberal Wars, under the command of the General Count of Vila Flor.
Geography
Achadinha is located east of Ribeira Grande, along the northern coast of São Miguel, between its neighbours Salga in the west and Achada in the east. Located northeast of the island capital (Ponta Delgada) along the path of the Regional Roadway E.R.1-1ª, which encircles the island; it lies between the municipal seats of Nordeste and Ribeira Grande, with the central mountains towards the interior and the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
Economy
Remotely, the parish was dedicated to cultivating wheat, corn, beats, and potatoes. The parish diversified its activities but deviated little from its agriculture and animal husbandry, producing milk and beef cattle.
Architecture
Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Portuguese: Igreja Paroquial de Achadinha/Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário), at the time of the 1522 earthquake, 123 people lived in the parish; it was at about this time that the church was established, with successive reconstructions occurring in 1568, 1830 and remodelled in 1882.
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