Pico do Facho
Pico do Facho is the highest peak on Porto Santo Island, with 517 m in altitude. Its name comes from facho, a light beam created by a bonfire, which was used to signal both the local population and Funchal of pirate ships.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pico do Castelo and Pico Juliana.
Pico do Castelo
Peak
Photo: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pico do Castelo is a 437 m high volcano-shaped peak on Porto Santo Island. The peak is covered with conifers and has a panoramic terrace and a picnic spot.
Pico do Facho
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 484 metres
- Description: mountain in Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
33.08433° or 33° 5′ 4″ northLongitude
-16.32359° or 16° 19′ 25″ westElevation
484 metres (1,588 feet)Height
1.1 metres (3.6 feet)Width
0.41 metres (1.3 feet)Open location code
8C553MMG+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1162456202OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
2268396Wikidata ID
Q4352988
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Pico do Facho” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pico do Facho”
- Dutch: “Pico do Facho”
- Finnish: “Pico do Facho”
- Ladin: “Pico do Facho”
- Luxembourgish: “Pico do Facho”
- Portuguese: “Pico do Facho”
- Spanish: “Pico do Facho”
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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 do Facho”. Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.