Ribeira da Janela
Ribeira da Janela · Porto Moniz
parish in the municipality of Porto Moniz, north-west coast of Madeira
Ribeira da Janela is a parish on Madeira's north-west coast in the municipality of Porto Moniz. It is named after the island's longest and most abundant stream, which rises on the Paul da Serra and feeds the Rabaçal levadas, and after a window-like islet near its mouth. Its uplands include Fanal, and its forests were damaged by fire in 1919.
1Mentioned in
- Ribeira da Janela (parish) — Described as Madeira's most abundant and longest stream, giving the parish its name.
- Fonte dos Ingleses — Parish whose uplands include Fanal.
- Livestock — Limit of the humid north-western area of high milk yields.
- Profundidades — Parish containing the Fanal and Rabaçal profundidades.
- Janela (stream) — Parish crossed by the stream, sharing its name.
- Porto Moniz (municipality) — Parish forming part of the municipality.
- Aderno (Ardisia excelsa) — The aderno grows in the mountains of Ribeira da Janela.
- Fire of 1919 — Forests damaged.
- São Vicente (town and municipality) — Parish temporarily attached to São Vicente when Porto Moniz was suppressed.
- Levadas — Its mountains saw a recently begun, then interrupted, levada project.
- Levadas — The island's most abundant stream, whose headwaters feed the Rabaçal levadas.
- Levadas — Major stream rising on the Paul da Serra.
- Levadas — Its unused waters were provisionally granted in 1910.
- Ribeira da Janela (islets) — Parish off whose coast the islets lie; it took its name from one of them.
- Ribeira da Janela (parish) — Subject of the entry.
- Bodes (peak) — Its serra contains the peak.
- Woodcock (Scolopax rusticula) — Example of the wooded valleys the woodcock inhabits.
- Marmulano (Sideroxylon Marmulano) — Locality where the marmulano grows.
- Madeira (relief: slopes, plateaux and valleys) — Its valley is among the main ones.
- Fanal — Fanal lies in its hills.
- Mocano — Visnea mocanera grows on rocks between it and the Ribeira do Inferno.
- Porto do Moniz (parish) — Parish once part of Ponta do Tristão.
- Madeira (landscape) — Its mouth is recommended as a coastal scenic spot.
- Lava tubes — A cave here yielded remarkable glassy lava drips.
- Ginjeira brava (Prunus Lusitanica, var. Hixa) — The only place where the tree has been found.
- São Vicente (parish) — Added to the archpriest's jurisdiction in 1814.
- Lamaceiros — Part of it is visible from nearby peaks.
- Herbaria — Collecting area of Costa.
- Crater — Cited by Lyell as a deep valley radiating from the central mountains.
2Chronology
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A royal charter raised the parish of São Vicente to the status of a town and municipality, attaching northern localities such as Porto Moniz, Ponta Delgada and Seixal to it and further reducing the municipality of Machico.
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The jurisdiction of the archpriest of São Vicente was extended to Porto Moniz, Ribeira da Janela and Seixal.