Salto do Cabrito

We then travelled through the misty country and down a steep windy incline into a ravine. While on our way Manuel told us that the Azores is quite self sufficient in energy production. At the base of a ravine we could view this 30 m high waterfall (in two parts) with a pretty stream below which supplied the water flow for a small hydro station that generates 680KW of electricity. We are told this is one of 7 such small plants on Sao Miguel. As we arrived at this park, we also passed by large pipes bringing hot water to one of the two geothermal plants which supply 40% of the islands energy. There is also some wind energy although on our tour today we did not see any windmills but we certainly felt a lot of powerful wind!Read more