Person engineer writer
Adolfo Loureiro
d. 1911
engineer · writer
Portuguese engineer sent to Madeira in 1898 to study the application of the 1892 water regime. He wrote on the archipelago and its ports, devoting the fifth volume of Os Portos Marítimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes (1910) to Madeira.
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- Funchal (bay) — Engineer quoted on how little was known about the tides and waters of the port of Funchal.
- Levadas — Engineer sent to study the water regime of Madeira, who left in April 1898 after recommending the adapted decree.
- Madeiran history — Author of Os Portos Marítimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes (1910).
- Oceanography — Portuguese engineer, author of «Os Portos Marítimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes», quoted here on Madeira's currents, depths and tides.
- Harbour of Funchal — Engineer quoted lamenting the lack of oceanographic study of Madeira's tides and waters.
- Fishing industry — Engineer whose work Portos Marítimos de Portugal supplied the 1909 fishing statistics quoted here.
- Faial (parish) — Author of Os portos marítimos de Portugal, quoted on the Faial quay.
- Pontinha mole (breakwater) — Author of 'Os Portos Maritimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes', with a detailed account of the Pontinha breakwater.
- Harbours of Madeira — Engineer whose work 'Os Portos Marítimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes' (vol. 5) describes Madeira's ports in detail.
- Madeira (ports) — Portuguese engineer whose work Os Portos Maritimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes devotes its fifth volume to the Madeira archipelago.
- Autonomous Board for the Funchal Harbour Works — Author of Os Portos Marítimos de Portugal e Ilhas Adjacentes (1910), cited as a source.
