Kerry Murray for The New York Times A view overlooking the northwest coast of São Miguel, the largest of the islands that make up the Azores archipelago ... areas of the island’s steaming ...

The Azores are composed of nine islands and are often differentiated by their geographic location; the eastern islands (São Miguel and Santa Maria), western islands (Flores and Corvo) and central ...

When residents of São Miguel ... owned Azores islands, have taken on fantastical twists – perhaps this one too. Another man told me that there was so much cocaine on the island that summer ...

the capital of São Miguel, the Azores' biggest island. Because of its remote location, direct flights to the Azores from destinations outside Portugal are limited, so you should expect to take at ...