Article Nº 3171 Stream, valley or inland water Funchal Vol. III · p. 363
Ribeira de Santa Luzia
One of the three streams crossing Funchal, named after a chapel of Santa Luzia on its left bank. Its banks were among the first farmed and had four sugar mills in the late 17th century.
This is one of the three streams that run through the city, and it takes its name from the chapel of this dedication, the chapel of St Lucy (Santa Luzia), which stood on a rise on its left bank. The land along its banks was among the first to be farmed in various ways in the earliest days of colonisation. At the end of the 17th century there were four sugar mills on its banks. Important levadas (irrigation channels) rise in the basin of this stream, the chief of them being the one called the Levada de Santa Luzia (see II-255).
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