Place cape/point Caniço Santa Cruz
Cabo Garajau
Caniço · Santa Cruz
headland at the eastern end of Funchal bay, municipality of Santa Cruz, Madeira
Headland marking the eastern limit of Funchal bay, rounded by ships entering Funchal from the east. It is one of Madeira's two capes and was named after the terns found there by the first explorers. It is a southern buttress and viewpoint of the island, a site of Lotus macranthus, and in 1919 a limit of the restricted sea zone.
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- Shipwrecks — Eastern limit of Funchal bay.
- Cabeleira (Lotus macranthus) — Locality on Madeira where the plant occurs.
- Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Headland at the eastern end of the Funchal bay stretch.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Headland rounded by ships entering Funchal from the east.
- Madeira (island) — Southern buttress and viewpoint.
- Capes — One of Madeira's two capes, named after the terns found there by the first explorers.
- Political deportees — Other limit of the restricted sea zone in 1919.