development has been conditioned by the islands geomorphology resulting in four principal axes of settlement supporting 80% of the islands population: along the valley separating the Caldeira Massif from the rest of the island, between the village of Praia and Carapacho, Fonte do Mato, Pedras Brancas and Luz; around Serra das Fontes, the axis between Santa Cruz and Santo Amaro, including Fontes and Guadelope, as well as two branches to Pontal by way of Pedras Brancas, and southeast to include Almas, Manuel Gaspar, Ribeirinha and Brasileira; from Santa Cruz to Rebentão, around Pico da Hortelã, and northeast to Vitória; from Dores to Bom Jesus and along the coast to Vitória, this region is a vast landscape of many disperse settlements, different from the rest of the island. References Notes Municipalities of the Azores