Cabeço Gordo

View from the south in the Caldera

The Cabeço Gordo, in free translation from Portuguese fatter head, is the highest mountain on the island of Faial, Azores. The crater rim of the volcano rises to 1,043 m above sea level, which has Caldeira (Spanish Caldera ) has a diameter of 2 kilometers and the basin falls steeply from 400 meters. This main crater dominates the island of Faial, but is only part of a traveling westbound cooker. The last eruption occurred in 1957/58, whereby the 2.4 km ² Capelinhos arose.