Ajuda da Bretanha is a northern civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It is a relatively new parish, being elevated to this status when the former parish of Bretanha was divided, forming: Ajuda and Pilar. The population in Ajuda was 1334 (in 2001), in area covering 7.1 square kilometres (2.7 sq mi) (approximately 188 inhabitants per km²), the northernmost parish in municipality.
There still exists some controversy relative to the origin of Bretanha in the local lexicon. The parish received its name from the original Bretanha of the older parish, and in accordance with popular tradition, it was adopted by the local Portuguese colonists to refer to the original settlers of the area. It is assumed that the area was originally inhabited between the end of the 15th Century and/or the beginning of the 16th Century. During this period the concentration of colonists from Great Britain, or Brittany, may have led to the local designation. Even today, the area that was the parish of Bretanha is populated by people whose ethnicity are mistaken for British nationals (skin, eye or hair colors primarily), and where the local dialect is punctuated by diction and intonations reminiscent of French. When the area of Ajuda was de-annexed to form the current administration the name was adopted; a compound phrase which means: Ajuda from [the parish formerly known as] Bretanha.
Until 1527, Bretanha was actually part of a much larger parish known as Capelas.
This cache shows you the traditional washhouse and the water comes from a source. Here local people still come to take fresh water for using it at home. This cache is magnetic.
