Ponta Dos Rosais

Ponta dos Rosais is a point located about north of Rosais in the island of São Jorge in the Azores.

The promontory features a great countryside. It has a cliff of 200 m above the Atlantic and divides the north and south. The ocean partially offers a view of the island of Faial and Pico with a 15 km distance. The rest of the sea stretches the horizontal line. The localportion includes the geologic formation with the Baixa da Ponta dos Rosais. The local part includes the extent of the land that localizes the Ilhéu dos Rosais and the lighthouse.

This nature reserve strethces the coastal embankment and makes into two different areas, first being the Ponta dos Rosais zone properly to the right, makes up an embankment with a mixture of pyroclasts with a treacherous trail, with a lot of alternative routes through caves and abundant of the seashore. The second area stretches to Urzelina, and makes up a rocky embankment of 200 m above sea level, and features a seashore. The area protects mainly on a lower part of the coastline including the shores, the cliffs with vegetation mainly on Macaronesian origin and habitat that are endemic.

These Maraconesian animal lives in vast rocky areas around the cliff and the rocky islets, the other areas are mainly for the view point of agriculture.

The local area with the surroundings are mainly used for agriculture. Tourists visit the area, the area is particularly important for sea birds, that includes a second great concentration of birds in the Azores. For many important thing is the nature conservation that surpasses the recommended boundaries between the regional protection, even in ornithology. The main birds are Calonectris diomedea and Puffinus assimilis.