Place river/stream Caniço Santa Cruz
Ribeira do Caniço
Caniço · Santa Cruz
stream in the parish of Caniço, municipality of Santa Cruz, Madeira; rises in Camacha
Stream in the parish of Caniço that rises in Camacha. It served as the boundary between the captaincies of Funchal and Machico, being named as a limit in the Machico donation. It also marked the eastern limit of the 15th-century Funchal municipality and a boundary of the Ornelas land grant.
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- Ornelas — Boundary of the Ornelas land grant.
- Caniço (parish) — Stream that formed the boundary between the captaincies; it rises in Camacha.
- Municipalities — Eastern limit of the 15th-century Funchal municipality.
- Captaincies — Stream named in the Machico donation as its limit.