Pico Ruivo
Pico Ruivo is the highest peak on Madeira Island and the third highest in Portugal, standing at 1,861 metres in the Santana municipality. Accessible only by foot, it can be reached from either Pico do Areeiro or via a shorter, easier trail from Achada do Teixeira.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,862 metres
- Description: highest peak on the Madeira Islands
- Also known as: “Ruivo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pico das Torres and Pico do Areeiro.
Pico das Torres
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pico das Torres is the second highest peak on the Atlantic island of Madeira, Portugal. It lies roughly midway between the Pico Ruivo and Pico do Arieiro at an elevation of 1,853 metres and is only accessible from the trail between these two peaks.
Pico do Areeiro
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pico do Areeiro, at 1,818 m high is a mountain located on the Portuguese island and autonomous region of Madeira, the third highest on the island. Situated within the mountainous interior of the island roughly halfway between the northern and southern coasts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caldeirão do Inferno and Achada do Teixeira.
Achada do Teixeira
Locality
Photo: anagh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Achada do Teixeira is a mountain and a settlement of the freguesia of Santana, of the municipality of Santana, Ilha da Madeira. It has a natural attraction in basalt stone which is called the "standing man".
Pico Ruivo
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Faial, Santana Municipality, Madeira, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
32.75888° or 32° 45′ 32″ northLongitude
-16.94276° or 16° 56′ 34″ westElevation
1,862 metres (6,109 feet)Open location code
8C45Q354+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1832777814OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Venetian—“Pico Ruivo” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Pico Ruivo”
- Armenian: “Պիկու֊Ռույվու”
- Azerbaijani: “Piku Ruyvu”
- Basque: “Pico Ruivo”
- Bulgarian: “Пику Руйву”
- Cebuano: “Pico Ruivo de Santana”
- Chinese: “魯伊沃山”
- Czech: “Pico Ruivo”
- Dutch: “Pico Ruivo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پيكو رويڤو”
- Esperanto: “Pico Ruivo”
- Finnish: “Pico Ruivo”
- French: “Pico Ruivo”
- Galician: “Pico Ruivo”
- Georgian: “პიკუ-რუივუ”
- German: “Pico Ruivo”
- Hebrew: “פיקו רואיבו”
- Hungarian: “Pico Ruivo”
- Italian: “Pico Ruivo”
- Japanese: “ルイボ山”
- Ladin: “Pico Ruivo”
- Lithuanian: “Ruivo kalnas”
- Mongolian: “Пику-Руйву”
- Polish: “Pico Ruivo”
- Portuguese: “Pico Ruivo”
- Russian: “Пику-Руйву”
- Slovenian: “Pico Ruivo”
- Spanish: “Pico Ruivo”
- Ukrainian: “Піку-Руйву”
- Ukrainian: “Руйву”
- Venetian: “Pico Ruivo”
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Highlights include PR1.3 and Casa de Abrigo do Pico Ruivo.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pico Ruivo”. Photo: Kogo, GFDL.