Porto da Cruz

• Lavadeira (Motacila boarula) — Parish where the bird is sometimes called papa-moscas.
• Wine industry — North-coast parish noted for good-quality wines.
• Vaz — Parish of which he was priest.
• Língua cervina — Place where the fern grows.
• Fishing ports — Fishing port where some sperm whales were landed.
• Oceanography — North-coast place where the sea sometimes brought unknown fruits from the west.
• St John of Nepomuk (chapel) — Parish containing the chapel, whose curacy was based there from 1800.
• Fossil leaf beds — Leaf impressions found in tuff west of the village.
• Santana (municipality) — Parish transferred from Santana to Machico in 1852.
• St Francis Borgia (chapel) — Parish of the chapel.
• Almada (family) — Parish of Isabel Rodrigues Leal.
• Militia — Seat of a capitania-mor.
• Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Parish of Machico excluded because it lies on the north coast.
• Penha de Águia — Parish on one side of the rock.
• Costa do Norte — Eastern refuge harbour and parish on the north coast.
• Porto da Cruz quay — Place of the quay.
• Madeira (landscape) — Coastal place recommended for its scenery.
• Hypersthenite — Locality where Johnson reported hypersthenite.
• Nobiliaries — Parish of which Padre Fernando de Meneses Vaz was vicar.
• Aderno (Ardisia excelsa) — The aderno grows in the mountains of Porto da Cruz.
• Administrative organisation — Parish moved from Santana to Machico in 1852.
• Costa de Cima — Excluded from the Costa de Cima because it lies on the north coast.
• Harbours of Madeira — Tolerable port that serves as a good landing in southerly winds.
• Teixeira (António) — Parish containing the family chapel, and where the old morgado settled after 1803.
• Valleys — One of the two parishes forming the Penha de Águia valley.
• Sea beans — Main place on the north coast where sea beans wash ashore.
• Judicial organisation — Julgado of the Santa Cruz comarca.
• Tides — Where currents are weak or nil.
• Telegraph and post offices — Fourth-class station.
• Geology — Essexite outcrops, including the madeirite of ribeiro da Soca.
• Levadas — Parish irrigated by the Ribeiro Frio levada.
• Levadas — Irrigated by the Levada do Furado.
• Terra do Baptista — Parish containing the locality.
• Diseases — Parish affected by a special anaemia in 1888.
• Our Lady of Faith (chapels) — Parish of the second chapel.
• Santa Cruz (town and municipality) — Transferred from Santana to Machico by the 1852 decree.
• Basalts — Parish containing the Tem-te Não Caias basalt columns.
• Fiscal Organisation — Fiscal Guard post of the Machico section.
• Machico (town and municipality) — Parish moved from Santana to Machico in 1852.
• Wheat — One of the parishes where wheat growing is most important.

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• Costa de Cima
• Our Lady of Faith (chapels)
• Porto da Cruz (islet, harbour and stream)
• Ribeira do Porto da Cruz
• St John of Nepomuk (chapel)
• Lombo dos Leais
• Lamaceiros
• Our Lady of Bethlehem (chapel)