Calheta (landing place)
Original title: Calheta (Porto da)
The landing place serving Calheta and neighbouring parishes on Madeira's south-west coast, busy but lacking a quay, with coastal steamers calling regularly.
The landing place serving this parish and other neighbouring parishes (freguesias) handles a relatively large amount of traffic. It is much to be regretted that no small quay has yet been built there, given the difficulty of access to the narrow cove bordering the locality (sítio) of Vila (‘town’), the only point where passengers and goods may be landed and embarked. Adjoining the town (vila) is a beach of large rounded boulders, which bounds the same landing place. All this traffic takes place chiefly at two points: the main one is the so-called Rampa (‘ramp’), and the other is in the locality of Serra de Água (‘water sawmill’), near the mouth of the stream of that name. The steamers of the coastal shipping service call there regularly. The landing place lies 2.3 miles from Fajã do Mar (‘flat by the sea’) and 2.1 from Jardim do Mar (‘garden by the sea’) respectively, these being the nearest landing places to it.
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Calheta
Porto da Calheta is the landing place serving Calheta and neighbouring parishes on Madeira's south-west coast. It is busy but lacks a quay, and coastal steamers call there regularly. It lies 2.3 miles from the Porto da Fajã do Mar.
- Fajã do Mar
Calheta. Nearest port, 2.3 miles away.
Fajã do Mar is a coastal fajã in the parish of Arco da Calheta, Madeira, with a small landing place also called Nossa Senhora da Vida. Its surviving chapel stands on a rise above the sea, and it lies 2.3 miles from the port of Calheta.
- Jardim do Mar
Calheta. Nearby port, 2.1 miles away.
Jardim do Mar is a small parish on a coastal fajã on Madeira's south-west coast, in the municipality of Calheta, originally part of Paul do Mar parish; it grew from an eighteenth-century curacy into a parish in 1848. Its people built a Gothic-style church in 1906–1907, Malvasia is grown there, and divers in its waters catch slipper lobsters by hand.
- Ribeira da Serra de Água
Calheta. Stream whose mouth lies near the secondary landing point.
Stream in Arco da Calheta. Gonçalo Fernandes built his chapel near its mouth, close to the sea.
- Serra de Água
Calheta. Secondary landing point near the mouth of the stream of the same name.
Secondary landing point near the mouth of the stream of the same name.
- Vila
Calheta. The only point where passengers and goods may be landed at the port.
The only point where passengers and goods may be landed at the port.