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Madeira Island. / 32.65111°N 16.90972°W / 32.65111; -16.90972. Madeira is a Portuguese island, and is the largest and most populous of the Madeira Archipelago. It has an area of 740.7 km 2 (286 sq mi), including Ilhéu de Agostinho, Ilhéu de São Lourenço, Ilhéu Mole (northwest). As of 2021, Madeira had a total population of 245,595.
UTC+01:00 ( WEST) Area code. 291. Website. www .jfgaula .pt /site /. Gaula is a Portuguese civil parish, in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 4,028, [1] in an area of 6.95 km 2. [2] It is located 7 kilometres (7,000 m) northeast of the island capital of Funchal .
Website. www.madeira.gov.pt. Madeira ( / məˈdɪərə / mə-DEER-ə or / məˈdɛərə / mə-DAIR-ə, [ 3][ 4][ 5] European Portuguese: [mɐˈðɐjɾɐ] ⓘ ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira ( Portuguese: Região Autónoma da Madeira ), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.
There are 17 World Heritage Sites listed in Portugal, with a further 18 on the tentative list. The first four sites listed in Portugal were the Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon, the Monastery of Batalha, the Convent of Christ in Tomar, and the town of Angra do Heroísmo, in 1983. The most recent additions to the list ...
In the sixteenth century the Portuguese started building levadas to carry water to the agricultural regions. The most recent were made in the 1940s. Madeira is very mountainous, and building the levadas was often difficult. Many are cut into the sides of mountains, and it was also necessary to dig 25 kilometres (16 mi) of tunnels. [citation needed]
The settlement of Madeira and Porto Santo islands was a process defined by stages involving people from all over the kingdom. [2] In 1425 King John I officially made Madeira a full province of Portugal, handing it as a gift to Henry the Navigator. Settlement then began in earnest.
Geography. Santa Maria Maior, along the coast, showing the rugged escarpments of Madeira. It is located about 3 km east of the urban centre of Funchal, 4.5 km southwest Camacha and only 3 km west Caniço. The area is an urbanized section of the municipality of Funchal linked by ancillary roads to other sections of the island, as well as roadway ...