History of the Azores passed to João Fonseca and settlers streamed through the port of Armoeira to the small hamlets. The island became permanently populated during the reign of King Manuel I, in the year 1510, by people from various regions of continental Portugal, but mainly from the northern provinces. The island became arable, and grain and vegetables were cultivated. According to Santos et al.'s 2003 maternal DNA study of the Azores, people from Flores exhibit high genetic ancestry (~90%) with the Portuguese mainland, and Pacheco et al.'s 2006 paternal DNA study confirms that around 60% of all Azorean paternal lines are correlated to
Horta, Azores stopped in Horta on the first leg of his solo circumnavigation, which he chronicled in his 1899 book "Sailing Alone Around the World." In his semi-autobiographical story "The Innocents Abroad", Mark Twain was complimentary about the physical appearance of Horta: However, Twain painted a less complimentary picture of the inhabitants of Horta and Faial at the time: In works by Vitorino Nemésio ("O Corsário das Ilhas"), Raul Brandão ("As ilhas Desconhecidas"), the island is characterized as a focus of the story, while Jules Verne mentioned Horta in descriptions to his fiction tales. Horta, Azores Horta () is a single municipality