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Ponta Delgada

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Ponta Delgada (pôn`tə dĕlgä`də), city (1991 pop. 21,091), capital of Ponta Delgada dist., in the Azores Azores (əzôrz`, ā`zôrz), Port. Açores [Port.,=hawks], islands (1991 pop.
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, Portugal. An important port on São Miguel island, it is the largest city and chief commercial center of the Azores. It is also a winter resort. The Univ. of the Azores was founded there in 1976.
Ponta Delgada
a port in the E Azores, on S São Miguel Island: chief commercial centre of the archipelago. Pop.: 65 853 (2001)


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For Lobo, an interest in the minimalist objects of Donald Judd and a long apprenticeship with the reductive Modernist compositions of Joao Luis Carrilho da Graca are brought together and brought locally to life for her in Ponta Delgada as the duality of the black-and-white play of landscape and cloudscape, diffuse-white sky, black-cast shadow, and the black basalt of the island's once-molten earth.
Martinez); Hospital do Divine Espirito Santo, Ponta Delgada, Acores (C.
In the Azores, BES merged its operations with those of Caixa Economica da Misericordia de Ponta Delgada, resulting in the establishment of BES Acores.
 
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