A new Industrial District is being planned in the area of Lomba Grande, however some locals have voiced concerns that this construction may have environmental implications.

Also in Lomba Grande that are harvested without pesticides the horticultural trade shows that cater to the rural producer in town and some properties of family farms and cooperatives produce colonial products and integrals.

Initially, Lajes das Flores extended from Ribeira da Silva ( now part of the parish of Lomba ) to Fajã Grande ( which included the localities of Lajedo, Fajãzinha, Caldeira, Mosteiro, Fajã Grande and Fazenda ).

* Lomba da Maia, a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, São Miguel

* Lomba de São Pedro, a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, São Miguel

* Lomba da Cruz, a settlement in the western part of the municipality of Ribeira Grande, São Miguel

Administratively, Riberinha is divided by borders along Lomba Grande ( 543 metres ) and Lomba da Ribeira ( 209 metres ) oriented west to east ( both covered with many endemic species of plants, shrubs and trees natural to the Azores ).

Its eastern frontier begins at the Atlantic Ocean and runs into the interior, following the waterway of the Grota da Lomba Grande, travelling south along this border between Grota da Lomba Grande and accessway to the Caminho da Lomba Grande ( where it heads east until the margin ), continuing south along the Grota da Lomba Grande again until reaching the Cumeeiras das Sete Cidades.

In addition to many river-valleys that carve the landscape in this region, the municipality is also dotted by several beaches, including the main beach in Ribeira Grande ( Santa Bárbara and Monte Verde beaches ), Moinhos Beach ( Porto Formoso ) and Viola Beach, secluded in the shadow of Lomba da Maia.

Lomba de São Pedro has a small school and a small square ( praça ), and also a Presbyterian church, something unusual in such a small parish, in a country where Presbyterians number less than 1 / 2000 of the population.

* Lomba-location of the island's first chapel, and neighbor of the parish of Lajes, Lomba literally represents an area border by river-valleys along the southern coast ;

* Lomba-location of the island's first chapel, and neighbor of the parish of Lajes, Lomba literally represents an area border by river-valleys along the southern coast ;

After a failed settlement on the Lomba dos Frades, he established the nucleus of what would become Horta and beginning the first Captaincy of the island.

Their original beachhead, on the Lomba dos Frades, in the Praia do Almoxarife valley was a disaster for the first Captain-Donatário Josse van Huerter ( in 1465.

The first temple constructed in Lomba da Maia to serve the public, was the Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário (), a small chapel completed by the local clergy in 1867.

File: Porcelain_Wall_-_Yosemite_Valley. jpg | In 1971, Harding did the first ascent of this steep and shiny formation just east of Half Dome with Steve Bosque and Dave Lomba.

The small parish is located along a promontory divided by a couple of river-vallyes: Ribeira da Cruz, in the north, which bisects the hamlet, and Ribeira da Silva, in the south, which separates the civil parish from Lomba, in the municipality of Lajes das Flores.

Its taxonomy was derived from its location ; Lomba was located on a high precipice over the ocean, delimited by valleys on either side ( lomba is the Portuguese term for hill ), and was once called Lomba da Boa Vista.

But settlers continued into the area, settling in communities such as Lomba, Barreiro, Cela and Canto: by 1730, Salão became a civil parish.

Owing to the distance and difficulty in traveling from the valley of Ribeira da Cruz, in 1757, the parish vicar ( Father Agostinho Pereira de Lacerda ) requested that the bishop of Angra ( at that time Brother Valério do Sacramento ) anex Caveira to the neighboring parish of São Caetano da Lomba ( even though it was part of the neighboring municipality ).

* Lomba ( Amarante ), a civil parish in the municipality of Amarante

* Lomba ( Gondomar ), a civil parish in the municipality of Gondomar

* Lomba ( Sabugal ), a civil parish in the municipality of Sabugal

* Lomba, a civil parish in the municipality of Lajes das Flores, Flores

* Lomba da Fazenda, a civil parish in the municipality of Nordeste, São Miguel

* Lomba do Moio, a settlement near the town of Nordeste in the municipality of Nordeste, São Miguel

* Lomba do Cavaleiro, a settlement in the municipality of Povoação, São Miguel

* Lomba do Pós, a settlement in the municipality of Povoação, São Miguel

* Lomba das Fagundes, a settlement in the municipality of Povoação, São Miguel

Lomba is a civil parish in the municipality of Lajes das Flores on the island of Flores in the Azores.

* Vilar de Lomba, a parish in the municipality of Vinhais

* Vilar Seco de Lomba, a parish in the municipality of Vinhais

* Vilar Seco de Lomba, a parish in the municipality of Vinhais

The parish of Fenais da Ajuda occupies an area of 13. 41 km², along the northern coast of Ribeira Grande between the parishes of Lomba da Maia and Lomba de São Pedro, and the municipality of Povoação ( and its border with Furnas ).

Lomba da Maia is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Portuguese Azores.

Montesinho is classified into forests and woods ( oak and chestnut plantations at the base of the Coroa Mountains, the Tuela and lower Baceiro Rivers ); wood and pine forests ( forests and shrub vegatation in the western and eastern Rio Maças, Aveleda, Portelo / Montesinho, Mofreito / Montouto, Pinheiros, Serrea da Coroa, Vilar Seco da Lomba ); a sub-Atlantic mixed farming area ( around the Tuela and Baceiro Rivers ); open space that allow farming along the plateaus of Baçal, Aveleda, Onor, Deilão ); and the granite mountains of oak and birch species, mainly within the park and Pinheiros area.

Up to the end of 1987, South Africa was involved in a full intervention in the Angolan Civil War, and Olifant tanks were sent into combat, participating with success against Angolan forces near the Lomba River.

The situation did not improve communication or the betterment of the faith community connected to Lomba, and with the assistance of a local property-holder ( José António de Sousa Bettencourt of Graciosa ), a small chapel was constructed on the current site of the local cemetery.

The expedition remained in the area of Lomba dos Frades for about a year, until their supplies ran out.

There settlement abridged the Lomba dos Frades, where they stayed for about a year.

Nestled between Lomba da Espalamaca and Lomba dos Frades, the parish is primarily an agricultural settlement.

The parish is composed of several " communities " ( similar to neighborhoods ) that include Canto, Carapeta, Cela, Lomba and Salão with their distinct customs and family relationships.

The leastly populated parish in density and population is Lomba de São Pedro.

The highest parish is Lomba da Maia.