Covoada, Ponta Delgada — a church parish in 1977, a civil parish in 1980 and a church that burned in 1958

Inland, at the foot of the Serra Devassa, Covoada moved back and forth between Arrifes and Relva for more than a century, until it became a church parish in 1977 and a civil parish in 1980. The church of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda was almost destroyed by fire on 2 March 1958.