A Bretanha was a former Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel in the archipelago of the Azores.
The first reference to Bretanha appeared only between 1515 and 1527, since the northwestern region of the island of São Miguel was known as Capelas.
[1] There is little information that survives from this period (1515-1527), a point in the region's chronology occupied with early settlement.
[1] At that time historian Gaspar Frutuoso named then area Bretanha, for the rugged, highlands of Brittany: the area was referred to as the places of the north (and may have colloquially referred to the Portuguese vernacular, as "distant lands in the north").
Francisco Drumond described it as "a port village that sheltered the furious winds, situated on land little elevated, oriented to the north, a league and half to the west of Santo António".