The village of sanguinho was inhabited for more than a century by a relatively wealthy population that took refuge in this area due to the dangerous overflow of the faial da terra river twenty houses were built with pig pens four sheds and a haystack the emigration in the 60s and 70s to the americas and the difficulty children faced getting to school were the main causes of depopulation and the abandonment of this village in 2001 bbc made a documentary on sanguinho calling it the lost