In the `60s a large number of the inhabitants of Cuada followed the footsteps of many Azoreans who had emigrated to the New World.
The village, where so far motor vehicles have never entered, all most of its houses abandoned.
Along a Roman-style cobbled street you see a great variety of scenery.
The dominant features of this rare beauty are the peculiar formations of basaltic rock, in contrast with luxuriant green of the high slopes, from where impressive cascade of crystal clear water.