Bocas de Fogo, São Jorge Island

Vulcão da Urzelina is a volcano near the community of Urzelina, Velas municipality, São Jorge Island, Azores.Bocas de Fogo or “Bocas de Fogo da Urzelina” is a colloquial name of the volcano used only locally, but it is neither used in science nor in administrative maps!. It erupted in May and June 1808, causing destruction and over 30 deaths in Urzelina and producing a basalt field of volcanic rock extending to the Ponta da Urzelina. The eruption was the last sub-aerial event observed in the Azores; most recent eruptions have occurred along submarine vents, with the Capelinhos eruption starting as a submarine eruption and the 1998–2001 Serreta eruption being exclusively submarine. ()