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of Services Chapels is a village and headquarters of azorean parish of the municipality of Ponta Delgada, with 16.84 km² of area and 4 080 inhabitants (2011).
Its population density is 242.3 inhabitants km².
It is located at a latitude 37.833 (37°50') North and at a longitude 25.6833 (25°41') West, being at an altitude of 60 meters.
The main activity is agriculture and tea production aim.
It is bathed by the Atlantic Ocean. There's mountains to the south.
It was elevated to the village and seat of the municipality by Charter of Law of July 23, 1839. The municipality consisted of the parishes of Brittany, Chapels, Fenais da Luz, Santo António and São Vicente Ferreira. It had, in 1849, 9 026 inhabitants.
However, the council was ephemeral, having never fully assumed its functions. It was extinguished in 1855, returning its territory to the municipality of Ponta Delgada. Never losing the title of Village but falling by the wayside this was reinforced the category of village on June 24, 2003 by Regional Legislative Decree No. 29 2003 A, of June 24, of the Legislative Assembly. The populations of chapels and neighboring parishes demand the restoration of the municipality.
The village of Capelas was an important center of sperm whale hunting, operating in its small port, in the first half of the twentieth century, a whaling frame. In the vicinity of the port (Poços) was installed an oil factory and sperm whale flour, when this activity ended, was ruined and was later demolished, leaving only the main chimney. - REF: 326/T/03232
