Machico
Machico is the second biggest city in Madeira Island. Here you can find pedestrian tracks throughout the mountains, lovely beaches, and good restaurants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 11,500 residents
- Description: municipality in Madeira, Portugal
- Also known as: “Machico Municipality” and “Machico, Madeira”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Capela da Graça and Forte de Nossa Senhora do Amparo.
Forte de Nossa Senhora do Amparo
Castle
Photo: DarwIn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Forte de Nossa Senhora do Amparo is a castle.
Junta de Freguesia de Machico
Public building
Photo: DarwIn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Junta de Freguesia de Machico is a public building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Água de Pena and Caniçal.
Água de Pena
Village
Photo: Jarvin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Água de Pena is a civil parish in the municipality of Machico on the south-east coast of the Portuguese island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 2,434, in an area of 5.15 km².
Caniçal
Town
Photo: Zarco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Caniçal is a civil parish in the municipality of Machico in the Portuguese island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 3,924, in an area of 11.85 km2.
Santo António da Serra
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Santo António da Serra is a civil parish in the interior of the municipality of Machico, on the island of Madeira. The parish is adjacent to another parish in the neighbouring municipality of Santa Cruz to the south, which is also named Santo António da Serra.
Machico
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Machico, Machico Municipality, Madeira, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.72288° or 32° 43′ 22″ northLongitude
-16.76591° or 16° 45′ 57″ westPopulation
11,500Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT MCHOpen location code
8C45P6FM+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 25269573OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Machico” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماشيكو”
- Arabic: “مشيكة”
- Arabic: “مشيكو”
- Aragonese: “Machico”
- Asturian: “Machico”
- Basque: “Machico”
- Catalan: “Machico”
- Cebuano: “Machico”
- Chechen: “Машику”
- Chinese: “Machico”
- Chinese: “馬希庫”
- Chinese: “马希库”
- Czech: “Machico”
- Dutch: “Machico”
- Finnish: “Machico”
- French: “Machico”
- Galician: “Machico”
- Georgian: “მაშიკუ”
- German: “Machico”
- Hungarian: “Machico”
- Irish: “Machico”
- Italian: “Machico”
- Japanese: “マシコ”
- Japanese: “マヒコ”
- Korean: “마시쿠”
- Lombard: “Machico”
- Mazanderani: “ماشیسو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Machico”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Machico”
- Norwegian: “Machico”
- Novial: “Machico, Madeira”
- Persian: “ماشیسو”
- Polish: “Machico”
- Portuguese: “Machico”
- Portuguese: “Município de Machico”
- Romanian: “Machico”
- Russian: “Машику”
- Spanish: “Machico”
- Tatar: “Машику”
- Turkish: “Machico”
- Ukrainian: “Машіку”
- Vietnamese: “Machico (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Machico”
- Volapük: “Machico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Machico”
- “Machico”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Machico”. Photo: Llez, CC BY-SA 3.0.