Place peak/mountain Faial Santana
Ruivo
Faial · Santana
southern edge of the parish of Santana, municipality of Santana
Pico Ruivo is the highest peak of Madeira, at the southern edge of Santana parish; the 1914 geodetic survey gave its height as 1,861 m. The Elucidário describes the routes to the summit, earlier height measurements, its panorama, vegetation and geology, and the shelter built there in 1939.