Place cape/point Caniço Santa Cruz
Ponta da Oliveira
Caniço · Santa Cruz
headland in the parish of Caniço, municipality of Santa Cruz, Madeira
Ponta da Oliveira is a headland on the coast of Caniço, Madeira, named after an olive stake planted there as a boundary marker. It was the southern end of the line dividing the captaincies of Funchal and Machico and the southern limit of the original Funchal municipality. It has a small landing place, with a landing stage built in 1909.
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- Settlement and colonisation — Southern end of the line dividing the two captaincies.
- Caniço (parish) — Point from which the dividing line between the two captaincies began; it has a small landing place.
- Oliveira (point) — Subject of the entry; one end of the captaincy boundary.
- Oliveira (landing place and quay) — Site of the quay.
- Ponta da Atalaia — Neighbouring point.
- Ponta do Pargo (parish) — Other limit of the captaincy division.
- Sea distances — Coastal stage in the distance table.
- Brisa — Point beyond which the brisa is generally not felt.
- Headlands — Headland in Santa Cruz.
- Achadas da Cruz (parish) — The other boundary point between the captaincies.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — Southern limit of the original Funchal municipality.
- Ponta da Oliveira quay — Site of a landing stage built in 1909.
- Leste — Limit beyond which the 1919 leste was not at first felt.
- Captaincies — Southern end of the boundary between the two Madeiran captaincies.
- Machico (captaincy) — Southern boundary point of the captaincy.
- Vaz (Tristão) — Point connected with the dividing line between the two captaincies.
- Ponta da Oliveira — Headland to which this entry refers.