Canhas
Canhas · Ponta do Sol
parish in the municipality of Ponta do Sol, Madeira
Canhas is a parish in the municipality of Ponta do Sol on Madeira's south coast, named after the Canha family and created in 1577, first installed at the chapel of São Tiago. The Elucidário records its church and chapels, local dress and speech, industries and localities such as Outeiro and Carvalhal e Carreira, its irrigation by a small private levada, and the sesmaria of Martim Afonso da Cunha.
1Mentioned in
- Levadas — One of the parishes the 1768 survey hoped to irrigate.
- Levadas — Uses water from a small private levada rising on the plateau.
- St James the Less (chapel) — Parish where the chapel stands and where the parish was first installed.
- Bibliography — Parish whose vicar was attacked in an anonymous pamphlet.
- Livestock — Other limit of the area of high milk yields.
- Ponta do Sol (town and municipality) — Part of the municipality.
- Cunha — Site of Martim Afonso da Cunha's sesmaria lands.
- Outeiro — Parish containing Outeiro.
- Afonso — Parish where the Anjos chapel stands.
- St Andrew Avellino (chapel) — Parish containing the chapel.
- Processions of Candlemas, the Litanies and the Way of the Cross in Ponta do Sol — Parish whose parishioners were excused from the procession in 1607.
- Carvalhal e Carreira — Parish containing the locality.
- Iron — Granular iron occurs among tuffs here.
- Industries — Cheese-making parish.
- Meteorological stations — Rain-gauge post.
- Our Lady of the Angels (chapel) — Parish to which the site now belongs.
- Arco da Calheta (parish) — Bordering parish.
- Clocks — Its clock stands on the Levada do Poiso and belongs to the levada's water-right holders.
- Covões (peak) — Parish containing the hill.
- Fajãs — Parish containing fajãs.
- Madalena do Mar (parish) — Neighbouring parish upstream of Madalena do Mar.
- Ponta do Sol (parish) — Parish created from Ponta do Sol's original territory.
- Hail — Parish where hail destroyed much of the foliage of fruit trees.
- Anjos — Parish containing Anjos, whose seaboard it forms.
- Lombo dos Canhas — Parish containing the locality.
- Our Lady of Succour (chapels) — Parish of a former Socorro chapel.
2Chronology
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Martim and Isabel Afonso founded the Anjos chapel in Canhas.
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Madalena, Canhas and Tabua are supposed to have been separated from Ponta do Sol as parishes around this time.
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The parish of Canhas was created and installed in the chapel of São Tiago.
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João Fernandes Linhares founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Socorro at Canhas.