Calheta de Nesquim

Calheta de Nesquim is a civil parish, along the southern coast of the municipality of Lajes do Pico, in the Portuguese Azores. By 2011, the population had decreased to less than 343 residents, in an area of 13.81 km²; it is the second smallest parish in the municipality.

Calheta de Nesquim is one of the more precious pearls that circles the neck of Pico. There the sights jump from side to side, trying to capture in total the magic...the memories so graceful, such tenderness, such splendor. It is what comes from, apathy and darkness, in the Square of Laziness, to see, to guard, as if there existed the Monte Tabor, as if there the light had a luminescence more intense...Calheta de Nesquim, a place where we unite the ideal of beauty, that we search for constantly...and where we feel soaring and reflecting, in an air of mystery, the abbreviated song, of passion... (Guido de Monterey, 1978)