Calheta is a town and municipality in western Madeira, created by royal charter of 1 July 1502. It later became the seat of a countship granted to the captains of Funchal and was reorganised as a concelho in 1835.
1Mentioned in
- Settlement and colonisation — Municipality granted the 1515 foral.
- Levadas — Municipality whose farmland is irrigated by the Rabaçal levadas.
- Levadas — Municipality irrigated by the Rabaçal levadas and needing more water.
- Agriculture — Wine-producing municipality.
- Municipalities — Created town and municipality about the same time as Ponta do Sol.
- Municipalities — Municipality created in 1502 from Funchal.
- Fajã da Ovelha (parish) — Municipality to which the parish belongs.
- Wine industry — Wine-producing municipality.
- Towns — Made a town and municipality in 1502.
- Industries — Major linen-weaving municipality.
- Fiscal Organisation — Second-class fiscal municipality with a Fiscal Guard post.
- Afforestation — Council given planting instructions in 1792 and 1804.
- Oliveira (Dr António Rodrigues de) — Its council recorded his agricultural instructions.
- Ponta do Pargo (parish) — Municipality to which the parish now belongs; also Zarco's starting point in Frutuoso's account.
- Livestock — One of two municipalities where the white cattle sub-breed is found.
- Arms — Municipality whose arms bear a dove representing the Holy Spirit.
- Paul da Serra — One of four municipalities sharing the plateau.
- Deaneries — Municipality giving its name to the Calheta archpriest district.
- Câmara (Simão Gonçalves da) — Gives its name to the county he held as 3rd count.
- Sugar-cane mills — Municipality with eight factories.
- Achadas da Cruz (parish) — Municipality to which the parish passed when Porto Moniz was abolished; its collegiate church held the early curacy.
- By-laws — Its council printed its by-laws in 1842.
- Calheta (counts of) — The town that gave its name to the county.
- Arco da Calheta (parish) — Mother parish and seat of the municipality, which gave its name to Arco.
- Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Municipality on the south coast.
- Porto Moniz (municipality) — Municipality to which Ponta do Pargo was annexed in 1871.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — One of the original municipalities.
- Funchal (judicial district) — Municipality in the 1838 western comarca.
- Board for Agricultural Improvement of Madeira and Porto Santo — Its council held Veloso de Oliveira's agricultural instructions.
- Administrative organisation — Municipality that gained Ponta do Pargo and Achadas da Cruz.
- Fire of 1919 — Municipality affected.
- Costa de Baixo — Municipality forming part of the Costa de Baixo.
- Annals of the Municipality — Its council produced annals that remain unpublished.
- Land Registry Offices — Municipality served by the Ponta do Sol registry.
- Epidemics — Municipality badly hit by smallpox in 1872–73.
2Chronology
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By royal charter Calheta was raised to a town and made a municipality, reducing the area of Ponta do Sol.
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A royal charter of King Sebastião created Simão Gonçalves da Câmara, fifth captain-donatary of Funchal, Count of Calheta, the first known noble title in Madeira.
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Corregedor Veloso de Oliveira left tree-planting instructions to the Calheta council.
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The Calheta municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
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A decree abolished the municipality of Porto Moniz, whose parishes passed to Calheta; it was restored a few years later.
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A law definitively transferred the parish of Ponta do Pargo from the municipality of Porto Moniz to Calheta.
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A decree suppressed the Porto Moniz municipality for a second time, annexing its parishes to Calheta and São Vicente; it was restored in 1898.