Santo António de Nordestinho, Nordeste — the only parish in the municipality that grew between 2011 and 2021, and the authorised trail to Pico da Vara

A parish since 2002, Santo António de Nordestinho went from 255 to 260 inhabitants between 2011 and 2021, when every other parish in the municipality lost people. It has a church raised in 1898 by Father Manuel Raposo and the local people, and it is from here that the authorised access to Pico da Vara, the highest point on São Miguel, begins.