São José is a civil parish in the municipality and city of Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is a city and municipality on the island of São Miguel in the archipelago of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. It includes 44,403 residents in the urban area, and approximately 20,113 inhabitants in the three central parishes that comprise the historical city: São Pedro,...

 on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores

Azores

The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

. It is one of the constituent parts of the city of Ponta Delgada, including many historical, commercial and residential buildings extending from the port to regional Via Rápida freeway. It is the largest civil parish in the municipality, highly urbanized between an area of cinder cones and relative flatlands. The population in 2002 was 5500 inhabitants, its density 3273.81 km² in an area of approximately 1.68 km². In July 2002, owing to the population and administrative issues, the civil parish of Santa Clara

Santa Clara (Ponta Delgada)

Santa Clara is a parish in the district of Ponta Delgada in the Azores. Santa Clara is part of the downtown Ponta Delgada. In July 2002, it separated from a part of the parish of São José.-Geography:...

 separated from São José.

Geography

São José also has a few schools, a few lyceums, some gymnasiums, churches and a few squares (praças).