It is located in the parish of Norte Grande, Municipality of Velas, São Jorge Island, Azores Archipelago, Portugal
This mountain owes its origin to a volcano located in the mountain range that forms the central mountain range of the island of São Jorge and is the largest mountain on this island, rising to an altitude of 1053 meters.
This elevation, which is the highest on the island, allows you to see on cloudless days a landscape that stretches for hundreds of kilometers around you.
From the top of the volcanic cone you can see many of the island's fajãs as well as the island of Faial, the island of Pico on the south-facing slopes, and Terceira Island and Graciosa Island on the north-facing slope.
In its proximity and along the central mountain range where it is located, there are all other mountains whose altitude is lower, with Pico do Montoso standing out among them, which is characterized by being a mountain that encloses the geological formations known as “Grutas do Algar do Montoso”.
Due to the characteristics of the very rainy climate at altitude, it is deeply surrounded by large masses of hydrangeas that on this island are used to divide properties.
The remaining mountains that shape the central mountain range of the island of São Jorge, in addition to the one mentioned here and Pico do Montoso, are Pico do Areeiro, Pico Pinheiro, Pico Alto, and next to the town of Toledo, the highest inhabited town in the Azores, which is located at 600 meters, Pico da Pedreira, Pico das Brenhas and Morro Pelado, which reaches 1019 meters in altitude.
Along this mountain range there is a great abundance of endemic vegetation typical of Macaronesia, which has great botanical and scientific value to the point of justifying the creation of a protected area in this mountain range integrated into the Network of Protected Areas of the Azores through the São Jorge Natural Park.
In this mountain range there are many of the craters of the volcanoes that gave rise to it, currently dormant in geological eras there are strange lagoons populated by the flora and fauna typical of these mid-Atlantic Macaronesian regions.
This entire geographical area corresponds to a recent formation of the island in geological terms, and is the product of three large volcanic eruptions spaced apart for thousands of years that gave rise to large areas of new land from which it is still possible to see "connections" both in the breaks that interrupt the landscape to the East and West and in the materials expelled.
This elevation, which is the highest on the island, allows you to see on cloudless days a landscape that stretches for hundreds of kilometers around you.
From the top of the volcanic cone you can see many of the island's fajãs as well as the island of Faial, the island of Pico on the south-facing slopes, and Terceira Island and Graciosa Island on the north-facing slope.
In its proximity and along the central mountain range where it is located, there are all other mountains whose altitude is lower, with Pico do Montoso standing out among them, which is characterized by being a mountain that encloses the geological formations known as “Grutas do Algar do Montoso”.
Due to the characteristics of the very rainy climate at altitude, it is deeply surrounded by large masses of hydrangeas that on this island are used to divide properties.
The remaining mountains that shape the central mountain range of the island of São Jorge, in addition to the one mentioned here and Pico do Montoso, are Pico do Areeiro, Pico Pinheiro, Pico Alto, and next to the town of Toledo, the highest inhabited town in the Azores, which is located at 600 meters, Pico da Pedreira, Pico das Brenhas and Morro Pelado, which reaches 1019 meters in altitude.
Along this mountain range there is a great abundance of endemic vegetation typical of Macaronesia, which has great botanical and scientific value to the point of justifying the creation of a protected area in this mountain range integrated into the Network of Protected Areas of the Azores through the São Jorge Natural Park.
In this mountain range there are many of the craters of the volcanoes that gave rise to it, currently dormant in geological eras there are strange lagoons populated by the flora and fauna typical of these mid-Atlantic Macaronesian regions.
This entire geographical area corresponds to a recent formation of the island in geological terms, and is the product of three large volcanic eruptions spaced apart for thousands of years that gave rise to large areas of new land from which it is still possible to see "connections" both in the breaks that interrupt the landscape to the East and West and in the materials expelled.
