Place river/stream Santana Machico
Águas de São Roque
Santana · Machico
Machico, municipality of Machico
The Águas de São Roque are a cold spring at Machico, long reputed for their therapeutic virtues. Charles Lepierre's analysis of 1896 classed the water as hypothermal, hyposaline and sodium-chloride, and found it free of coliform bacteria.