Altares is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo on the Portuguese island of Terceira in the archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 901,[1] in an area of 28.22 km2.[2]
^Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^Eurostat Archived October 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
Altares is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo on the Portuguese island of Terceira in the archipelago of the Azores...
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