Vila do Corvo

Vila do Corvo is the smallest municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, constituting the island of Corvo in its entirety. With a population of 430 in 2011, it is the least populated of the Portuguese municipalities, and the only Portuguese municipality, by law, without a civil parish, in a seven-island archipelago. A later Mapa Catalão, but other nautical charts continued to refer to this island as the Ilhéu das Flores (Islet or Island of Flowers), Ilha da Estátua (Island of the Statute), Ilha do Farol (Island of the Lighthouse) or Ilha de São Tomás (Island of Saint Thomas). The island was placed under the control of Diogo Teive, who became the first Captain-Donatário.