Fajã de Cima

Fajã de Cima is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.

Fajã de Cima is located in the Picos region in the western part of the island of São Miguel, north of central Ponta Delgada.

[2] The history of Fajã de Cima is intimately related with the history of Fajã de Baixo, historically referred to as the Lugar das Fajãs (place of the Fajãs).

[3] Gaspar Frutuoso, in the 16th century, mentioned: Cândido Abranches, in 1869 referred: Abranches goes on to note: Fajã de Cima has been a "bedroom" community of Ponta Delgada, and responsible for the largest population influx.

[3] It contains the localities Carreira and Fajã de Cima.

Most of the land is cultivatable, but the Forest Reserve of Pinhal da Paz , is one of the main natural parks on island