Guide to São Miguel - Azores, Portugal At 287 square miles (744 sq km), São Miguel is the largest island in the Azores archipelago and is home to more than half of the Azorean population. The Azores is a collection of nine islands located in the Atlantic Ocean 900 miles off the coast of mainland Portugal. This island paradise is said to be the Hawaii of Europe and yet not many people, especially those in the US, even know of its existence. It is for that reason we wanted to discover a few of these luscious islands for ourselves and share our