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Levadas

Levadas

Santa Maria Maior · Funchal

Exact site unknown; shown at the parish

Main article Levadas Levadas, Madeira's irrigation channels carrying mountain water to coastal farmland: their origin with the first settlers, economic importance, flows, giro rotations and administration, and water-rights law from 1461 to the 1931 decree. Covers the state levadas, notably Rabaçal and Serra do Faial, the oldest private levadas, Paul da Serra and Porto Santo works, the 1943 irrigation and hydro-electric plan, terminology, forests, and legislation and bibliography.

The Levadas are Madeira's irrigation channels. The Elucidário's long entry traces their origin to the needs of the first settlers. It stresses their central importance to Madeiran agriculture and to feeding a dense and growing population.

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