Place parish Caniçal Machico
Caniçal
Caniçal · Machico
Parish of Caniçal, municipality of Machico, Madeira
Isolated fishing parish at the eastern tip of Madeira, at the root of Ponta de São Lourenço. It originated as a Moniz entail and João Teixeira's hunting reserve and became a parish around 1561. It holds a Piedade feast with a boat procession and has a fort built after a pirate raid.
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- Levadas — Also served by the abandoned Machico levada.
- Volcanic bombs — Locality where characteristic volcanic bombs are found.
- Tubarão (Carcharias microps) — Its fishermen alone still used the name.
- Pilgrimage festivals — Feast of Piedade with boat procession.
- Caniçal (parish) — The parish described in this entry.
- Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Its northern shore is excluded from the south coast, and it marks the root of Ponta de São Lourenço.
- Pencas — Place where the plant also grows.
- Costa do Norte — Its northern shore forms part of the north coast.
- Ilhéu de Fora quay — Parish whose landing stage was built in 1909.
- Caniçal (fort) — Settlement where the fort was built after a pirate raid.
- Teixeira — Site of João Teixeira's hunting reserve.
- Facho (peak) — Parish whose lands the summit dominates.
- Geology — Site of late volcanism.
- Piedade — Parish containing the height and chapel.
- Castanho (peak) — Parish on whose northern coast the peak stands.
- Machico (town and municipality) — Area into which the eastern ridge extends.
- Sea distances — Coastal stage in the distance table.
- Snails — Sub-fossil snail deposits lie east of it.
- Madeira (hydrographic features: bays, coves, landing places and beaches) — Listed as a poor port and a beach.
- Fishing industry — Fishing port with 90 fishermen in 1909.
- Lentil (Lens culinaris) — Locality where the lentil also occurs.
- Salt pans — Parish with salt works considered still potentially profitable.
- Fishing — Fishing village whose men gather limpets.
- Ponta de São Lourenço — Settlement beyond which the headland narrows.
- Parrotfish (Scarus cretensis) — Home of the fishermen who fish for it off the Desertas.
- Hail — Parish where a hailstorm once caused great damage to crops.
- Cephalopods — Beaches where Spirula shells are stranded in large numbers.
- Harbours of Madeira — Rated a poor port.
- Lajedo (peak) — Parish on whose north coast the peak stands.
- Our Lady of Pity (chapels) — Parish of the clifftop chapel.
- Machico (health resort) — Destination for boat trips from Machico.
- Pilgrims’ houses — Parish containing the Piedade chapel.
- Shells — Nullipore beds nearby hold many shells.
- Crater — Has a cone with a crater on one side.
- Prainha — The parish on whose coast the Prainha lies.