Câmara de Lobos
Camara de Lôbos
Câmara de Lobos
municipality of Câmara de Lobos, Madeira
Câmara de Lobos is a municipality of Madeira whose seat was historically a 'lugar' rather than a vila. The Elucidário quotes Gaspar Frutuoso's description of it and outlines the creation of the concelho in 1835 and later changes to its parishes.
1Mentioned in
- Câmara de Lobos (landing place, quay and cove) — Town at the head of the bay described in the entry, seat of the parish and municipality.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Parish separated from Funchal municipality in 1835.
- Agriculture — Leading wine municipality; its parish produces the finest musts.
- Municipalities — Municipality created in 1832; not a vila.
- Municipalities — Municipality created in 1835, briefly suppressed in 1867.
- Ribeira Brava (municipality and town) — Comparison case, and municipality from which Campanário was separated.
- Arms — Municipality whose recently adopted arms bear two wolves.
- Phylloxera — Municipality with heavily devastated vineyards by 1872.
- Deaneries — Municipality belonging to the Funchal archpriest district.
- Sugar-cane mills — Municipality with three factories.
- Santana (municipality) — One of the municipalities abolished by the 1867 decree.
- Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Municipality on the south coast.
- Porto Moniz (municipality) — Compared as another municipal seat never made a vila; also abolished in 1867.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Municipality once proposed for abolition; its parish belonged to Funchal in 1834.
- Funchal (judicial district) — Municipality included in the western comarca and later in the Funchal comarca.
- Administrative organisation — Municipality abolished in 1867 and later restored, which lost Campanário in 1914.
- Fire of 1919 — Municipality affected.
- Alcaides — Had its own alcaide while part of Funchal municipality.
- Costa de Baixo — Municipality forming part of the Costa de Baixo.
- Madeira (towns) — Municipal seat never raised to town status, according to the Elucidário.
- Campanário (parish) — The municipality to which Campanário belonged until 1914.
- Land Registry Offices — Municipality served by the Funchal registry.
- Epidemics — Municipality badly hit by smallpox in 1872–73.
- Vila (Câmara de Lobos) — Parish and municipality in which the locality lies.
- Pinto Coelho (Frederico) — He was for a time administrator of this municipality.
2Chronology
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The municipalities of Santana, Câmara de Lobos and Porto Moniz were created; Câmara de Lobos was not installed at the time.
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A new administrative organisation gave Madeira ten municipalities, creating among others Câmara de Lobos, Santana (including Porto da Cruz, over Machico's protests), Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Calheta and a reorganised Ponta do Sol; Funchal's limits were fixed at the end of the year and the district head became Civil Governor.
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A short-lived decree abolished the municipalities of Câmara de Lobos, Santa Cruz, Porto Moniz and Santana, merging Porto Moniz's parishes into São Vicente; they were soon restored.
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A decree created the municipality of Ribeira Brava. Campanário was transferred to it from Câmara de Lobos and Tábua from Ponta do Sol.