Madeira
Madeira is a sub-tropical archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and is an autonomous region of Portugal. The archipelago is made up of two populated islands, Madeira and Porto Santo, and two groups of unpopulated islands called the Desertas and Selvagens Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: autonomous region of Portugal with 239,000 residents
- Description: Autonomous Region of Portugal in the archipelago of Madeira
- Also known as: “Autonomous Region of Madeira”, “Madeira Autonomous Region”, and “Pearl of the Atlantic”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pico Ruivo and Pico das Torres.
Pico Ruivo
Peak
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.
Pico das Torres
Peak
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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
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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. Pico do Areeiro is situated 4 km southeast of Madeira.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Curral das Freiras and Achada do Teixeira.
Curral das Freiras
Village
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Curral das Freiras is a civil parish in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 2,001, in an area of 25.03 km2. Curral das Freiras is situated 5 km south of Madeira.
Achada do Teixeira
Locality
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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".
Ilha
Village
Ilha is a civil parish in the municipality of Santana in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 255, in an area of 14.19 km². Ilha is situated 6 km northeast of Madeira.
Madeira
- Categories: integral overseas territory, subregion of Portugal, and electoral unit
- Location: Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Madeira” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Madeiraeilande”
- Albanian: “Ishujt Madeira”
- Albanian: “Ishujt Medeira”
- Amharic: “ማደይራ”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ماديرا”
- Arabic: “قائمة جزر جزر ماديرا”
- Arabic: “ماديرا”
- Aragonese: “Madeira”
- Armenian: “Մադեյրա”
- Assamese: “মাদেইৰা”
- Asturian: “Madeira”
- Azerbaijani: “Madeyra”
- Bashkir: “Мадейра”
- Basque: “Madeira Uharteak”
- Basque: “Madeira”
- Bavarian: “Madeira”
- Belarusian: “Мадэйра”
- Betawi: “Madéra”
- Bosnian: “Madeira ostrva”
- Bosnian: “Madeira”
- Breton: “Madeira”
- Bulgarian: “Мадейра”
- Burmese: “မဒီးရကျွန်းများ”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Madeira”
- Catalan: “Illa de Madeira”
- Catalan: “Illes Madeira”
- Catalan: “Madeira”
- Catalan: “Regió autònoma de Madeira”
- Cebuano: “Madeira”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی مادیرا”
- Central Kurdish: “مادێرا”
- Chechen: “Мадейра”
- Chinese: “Madeira”
- Chinese: “馬德拉”
- Chinese: “馬德拉自治區”
- Chinese: “马德拉”
- Chinese: “马德拉群岛”
- Chinese: “马德拉自治区”
- Chuvash: “Мадейра”
- Cornish: “Madeira”
- Corsican: “Madera”
- Croatian: “Madeira”
- Czech: “Madeira”
- Czech: “Madeirské souostroví”
- Czech: “souostroví Madeira”
- Danish: “Madeira”
- Dimli (individual language): “Madeira”
- Dutch: “Madeira (gebied)”
- Dutch: “Madeira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماديرا”
- Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Regiono de Madejro”
- Esperanto: “Madeira”
- Esperanto: “Madejro”
- Estonian: “Madeira saared”
- Estonian: “Madeira saarestik”
- Estonian: “Madeira”
- Extremaduran: “Madeira”
- Faroese: “Madeira”
- Finnish: “Funchalin piiri”
- Finnish: “Madeira”
- French: “Madeira”
- French: “Madere”
- French: “Madère”
- French: “Região Autónoma da Madeira”
- French: “Région autonome de Madère”
- Gagauz: “Madeira adaları”
- Galician: “Arquipélago de Madeira”
- Galician: “Illas de Madeira”
- Galician: “Rexión Autónoma da Madeira”
- Galician: “Rexión Autónoma de Madeira”
- Georgian: “მადეირა”
- German: “Autonome Region Madeira”
- German: “Madeira”
- Greek: “Μαδέιρα”
- Greek: “Μαδέρα”
- Hakka Chinese: “Madeira”
- Hebrew: “איי מדיירה”
- Hebrew: “איי מדירה”
- Hebrew: “מדיירה”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מדיירה”
- Hindi: “मदीरा”
- Hindi: “मदेरा”
- Hungarian: “Madeira-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Madeira”
- Icelandic: “Madeiraeyjar”
- Ido: “Madeira”
- Igbo: “Madeira”
- Inari Sami: “Madeira”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Otonom Madeira”
- Indonesian: “Madeira”
- Interlingua: “Madeira”
- Interlingue: “Madeira”
- Irish: “Maidéara”
- Irish: “Réigiún Féinrialaithe Mhaidéara”
- Italian: “Isola di Madera”
- Italian: “Isole Madeira”
- Italian: “Isole Madera”
- Italian: “Madeira”
- Italian: “Madera”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Madeira”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Madiera”
- Japanese: “マデイラ自治地域”
- Japanese: “マデイラ自治州”
- Japanese: “マデイラ諸島”
- Javanese: “Madeira Islands”
- Javanese: “Madeira”
- Kashubian: “Madéra”
- Kazakh: “Мадейра”
- Kirghiz: “Мадейра аралдар тобу”
- Kirghiz: “Мадейра”
- Korean: “대서양의 진주”
- Korean: “마데이라 자치구”
- Korean: “마데이라 제도”
- Ladino: “Madeira”
- Lao: “ມາເດຍຣາ”
- Latin: “Insulae Madeirae”
- Latin: “Insulae Materiae”
- Latin: “Madeira”
- Latvian: “Madeira”
- Ligurian: “Madeira”
- Ligurian: “Madêra”
- Ligurian: “Región Outònoma de Madeira”
- Limburgan: “Madeira”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Madera”
- Lithuanian: “Madeira”
- Lithuanian: “Madeiros autonominis regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Madeiros salos”
- Low German: “Madeira”
- Luxembourgish: “Madeira”
- Macedonian: “Мадеира”
- Macedonian: “Мадејра”
- Malagasy: “Madeira”
- Malagasy: “Madera”
- Malay: “Madeira”
- Marathi: “मादेईरा”
- Mazanderani: “مادیرا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Madeira”
- Mingrelian: “მადეირა”
- Mirandese: “Madeira”
- Mirandese: “Region Outónoma de la Madeira”
- Northern Frisian: “Região Autónoma da Madeira”
- Northern Frisian: “Regiuun Madeira”
- Northern Sami: “Madeira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madeira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madeira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madeiraøyane”
- Norwegian: “Madeira”
- Novial: “Madeira”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Archipèla de Madèira”
- Ossetian: “Мадейрæ”
- Ossetian: “Мадейра”
- Persian: “جزایر مادیرا”
- Persian: “جزایر مدیرا”
- Persian: “مادیرا”
- Polish: “Madera”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago da Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Madeirense”
- Portuguese: “Madeirenses”
- Portuguese: “Província da Madeira”
- Portuguese: “R a M”
- Portuguese: “Região autónoma da Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Região Autónoma da Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Região Autônoma da Madeira”
- Portuguese: “Região autónoma de Madeira”
- Portuguese: “região NUTS 3 de Portugal”
- Portuguese: “região NUTS III de Portugal”
- Quechua: “Madeira”
- Romanian: “Insula Madeira”
- Romanian: “Insulele Madeira”
- Romanian: “Madeira”
- Russian: “Мадейра”
- Sardinian: “Madeira”
- Scots: “Madeira”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Madeira”
- Serbian: “Região Autónoma da Madeira”
- Serbian: “Аутономна регија Мадеира”
- Serbian: “Мадеира”
- Serbian: “Мадејра”
- Serbian: “Мадера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madeira”
- Shan: “မတီးရႃႇ”
- Sicilian: “Madera”
- Sinhala: “අත්ලාන්තික් සාගරයේ මුතු ඇටය”
- Sinhala: “මැඩෙයිරා හි ස්වයං පාලන කලාපය”
- Sinhala: “මැඩෙයිරා”
- Skolt Sami: “Madeira”
- Slovak: “Madeira”
- Slovak: “Purpurové ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Avtonomna regija Madeira”
- Slovenian: “Madeira”
- Spanish: “Archipielago de Madeira”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago de Madeira”
- Spanish: “Isla Madeira”
- Spanish: “Islas Madeira”
- Spanish: “Madeira”
- Spanish: “Region Autonoma de Madeira”
- Spanish: “Region Autónoma de Madeira”
- Spanish: “Región Autónoma de Madeira”
- Sundanese: “Madeira”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Madeira”
- Swedish: “Madeira”
- Swiss German: “Madeira”
- Tagalog: “Madeira Islands”
- Tagalog: “Madeira”
- Tagalog: “Mga Pulo ng Madeira”
- Tamil: “மதீரா”
- Tatar: “Мадейра”
- Telugu: “మదీరా దీవులు”
- Thai: “มาเดรา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Madeira”
- Turkish: “Madeira Adaları”
- Turkish: “Madeira Özerk Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Madeira”
- Turkish: “Madeyra”
- Ukrainian: “Архіпелаг Мадейра”
- Ukrainian: “Мадейра”
- Urdu: “Madeira”
- Urdu: “مادیرا”
- Urdu: “مادیعیرا”
- Urdu: “مادیعیرہ”
- Vietnamese: “Madeira”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Madeira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Madeira”
- Welsh: “Madeira”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Madeira”
- Western Frisian: “Madeara”
- Western Frisian: “Madeira”
- Western Mari: “Мадейра”
- Western Panjabi: “مادیرا”
- Western Panjabi: “مادیعرا”
- Western Panjabi: “معادیرا”
- Wu Chinese: “马德拉”
- Yakut: “Мадейра”
- Yoruba: “Madeira Islands”
- Yoruba: “Madeira”
- Yue Chinese: “馬德拉”
- Zeeuws: “Madeira”
- Zulu: “IMadira”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Madeira”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lapinhas and Fajã do Penedo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pico do Canário and Lombo do Meio.
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