Place cape/point Caniço Santa Cruz
Ponta do Garajau
Caniço · Santa Cruz
headland in the parish of Caniço, municipality of Santa Cruz
A headland 126 m high marking the eastern limit of the bay of Funchal, on which the statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stands above the sea. It was a boundary of the Ornelas land grant, and the 100-fathom line lies only half a mile offshore there.
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- Ornelas — Boundary of the Ornelas land grant.
- Garajau (cape) — Subject of the entry, 126 m high.
- Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — Headland where the statue stands above the sea.
- Funchal (bay) — Eastern limit of the bay of Funchal.
- Harbour of Funchal — Eastern limit of Funchal Bay.
- Madeira (relief: slopes, plateaux and valleys) — Listed coastal headland.
- Fishing — Where the 100-fathom line lies only half a mile offshore.
- Barcelos (Pico dos) — Eastern end of the semicircle of land viewed from the hill.