Place coast/bay/beach Porto Santo
Praia do Porto Santo
Porto Santo
beach on Porto Santo, municipality of Porto Santo
The great sandy beach of Porto Santo, about 10 km long and the largest in the archipelago, praised for safe sea bathing. A young whale was trapped and captured there in May 1905, and bathers and fishermen have suffered serious weever stings there.
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- Whales — Beach where a young whale was trapped and captured in May 1905.
- Porto Santo (health resort) — The three-league sandy beach praised for safe sea bathing.
- Snipefish (Centriscus scolopax) — Beach where the fish appears in quantity.
- Calheta — The island's great beach, which Calheta directly adjoins.
- Escolar de natura (Tetragonurus cuvieri) — A specimen of the fish was collected near this beach.
- Aranha (weever) — Beach where fishermen and bathers have suffered serious weever stings.
- Porto Santo (island) — The largest beach in the archipelago, about 10 km long.