Camacha
Camacha · Santa Cruz
parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz, Madeira
Camacha is an upland parish above Caniço in Santa Cruz municipality, founded in 1676 with its seat in the São Lourenço chapel. The Elucidário covers its church, role in the 1828 Miguelist invasion, quintas, levadas, the Poiso shelter house, its Pentecost pilgrimage, women's padded skirts, its plants and gardens, and its famous wickerwork industry started by Hinton.
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- Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) — Gardens here grow the fragrant carocha, a magnolia.
- Tierno (João) — Parish where the folhadeiro is very common.
- Rosmaninho — Santolina is cultivated in gardens here.
- St Lawrence (chapels) — Parish founded in 1676 with its seat in the São Lourenço chapel.
- Língua de vaca (Sonchus fruticosus) — Where the plant is frequent.
- Folhado (Clethra arborea) — A place where the folhado is common.
- Quintas — Parish containing several quintas.
- Álamo — Where Lombardy poplar is found.
- Pilgrimage festivals — Rustic pilgrimage at Pentecost octave.
- Dress — Parish where women wore rounded padded skirts.
- Hortelã de burro (Cedronella triphylla) — Locality where the plant is frequent.
- Hinton — Parish where Hinton started the wickerwork industry.
- Achada (Camacha) — Parish containing the plateau.
- Caires — Parish where the surname is common.
- Gardens of Madeira — Upland parish where temperate plants thrive that fail at lower altitudes.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Parish that sought separation from Santa Cruz.
- Mocano — Pittosporum coriaceum is cultivated in its quintas.
- Hay — Supplies hay to Funchal.
- National Scout Corps — Place where a scout leaders' congress was held in 1939.
- Cedar — Cedar cultivated there.
- Madeiran elder (Sambucus maderensis) — Parish where the elder is cultivated.
- Feijoa — Main growing area of the feijoa.
- Cherry laurel (Prunus Laurocerasus) — Where the plant is cultivated.
- Flash floods — A woman and child died there in 1920.
- Levadas — Parish crossed by the path along the levada.
- Silveira (José Marciano da) — His birthplace.
- Osier — Parish where wickerwork began around 1850 and main source of exported wicker.
- Camacho — Parish separated from Caniço in 1679 whose name may derive from a landholder called Camacho.
- Santa Cruz (town and municipality) — Parish whose inhabitants sought annexation to Funchal.
- Sport — Parish containing the Achada cricket ground.
- Abóboras (peak) — Parish containing the peak.
- Industries — Makes straw hats, wicker and wooden spoons.
- Hydrangea (Hydrangea hortensis) — One of the places where hydrangeas are much cultivated.
- Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) — Place where chamomile is much cultivated.
- Teles da Silva (Dom Friar António) — Parish created during his episcopate.
- Caniço (parish) — Parish separated from Caniço in 1676, where Caniço's stream and levadas rise.
- Mimos (Fuchsia) — One of the places where Fuchsia coccinea is naturalised.
- St Joseph (chapels) — Parish containing the Achada chapel.
- Belas Donas (Amaryllis belladonna) — Where the plant is frequent.
- Clocks — Has a clock tower at Achada given by Dr Grabham.
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2Chronology
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The parish of Camacha was created and separated from Caniço, with its seat in the São Lourenço chapel, being definitively constituted in 1680.
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Following the prince regent's resolution of October 1676, royal charters of D. Pedro II dated 28 December 1676 created several new parishes and curacies, including Paul do Mar, Prazeres, Santa Luzia, Camacha, Serra de Água, Arco de São Jorge, Achadas da Cruz, Estreito and Arco da Calheta; collegiate benefices at Câmara de Lobos were abolished to fund some of them.
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José Marciano da Silveira was born in Camacha.
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The wickerwork industry apparently began in Camacha parish.
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Aires de Ornelas was born at Camacha.
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The first Regional Scout Camp was held in Madeira.
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A scout leaders' congress was held at Camacha.