Porto Santo
Porto Santo is the northernmost and easternmost island in Portugal's Madeira archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The only significant settlement on the island is the town of "Vila Baleira".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Portugal with 5,480 residents
- Description: municipality in Madeira, Portugal
- Also known as: “Porto Santo Island Municipality”, “Porto Santo municipality”, and “Porto Santo Municipality”
Photo: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pico do Facho and Pico do Castelo.
Pico do Facho
Peak
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Porto Santo
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Porto Santo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورتو سانتو”
- Aragonese: “Porto Santo”
- Basque: “Porto Santo”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Порту-Санту”
- Belarusian: “Порту-Санту”
- Bengali: “পোর্টো সান্তো আইল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Porto Santo”
- Catalan: “Porto Santo”
- Cebuano: “Ilha de Porto Santo”
- Cebuano: “Porto Santo”
- Chechen: “Порту-Санту (муниципалитет)”
- Chechen: “Порту-Санту”
- Chinese: “Porto Santo”
- Chinese: “圣港岛”
- Czech: “Porto Santo”
- Danish: “Porto Santo”
- Dutch: “Porto Santo (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Porto Santo”
- Esperanto: “Porto Santo”
- Esperanto: “Porto-Santo”
- Finnish: “Porto Santo”
- French: “Porto Santo”
- French: “Porto-Santo”
- Galician: “Porto Santo”
- German: “Porto Santo”
- Greek: “Πόρτο Σάντο”
- Gujarati: “પોર્ટો સાન્ટો આઇલેન્ડ”
- Hebrew: “פורטו סנטו”
- Hindi: “पोर्टो सैंटो द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Porto Santo”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Porto Santo”
- Irish: “Porto Santo”
- Italian: “Porto Santo”
- Japanese: “ポルト・サント島”
- Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ಸ್ಯಾಂಟೊ ದ್ವೀಪ”
- Korean: “포르투산투섬”
- Latvian: “Portu Santu sala”
- Lithuanian: “Porto Santas”
- Lithuanian: “Porto Santo”
- Luxembourgish: “Porto Santo”
- Malay: “Porto Santo”
- Marathi: “पोर्टो सान्टो आईसलँड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Porto Santo”
- Northern Frisian: “Porto Santo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto Santo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porto Santo”
- Norwegian: “Porto Santo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Porto Santo”
- Persian: “جزیره پورتو سانتو”
- Persian: “ویلا بالیرا”
- Polish: “Porto Santo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Porto Santo”
- Portuguese: “ilha Dourada”
- Portuguese: “Município do Porto Santo”
- Portuguese: “Porto Santo”
- Russian: “Порту-Санту (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Порту-Санту”
- Sinhala: “පෝර්ටෝ සැන්ටෝ දූපත”
- Slovenian: “Porto Santo”
- Spanish: “Isla de Porto Santo”
- Spanish: “Isla Porto Santo”
- Spanish: “Porto Santo”
- Swedish: “Porto Santo”
- Tamil: “போர்டோ சந்தோ ஐஸ்லாந்து”
- Tatar: “Порту-Санту (муниципалитет)”
- Tatar: “Порту-Санту”
- Telugu: “పోర్టో సాంటో దీవి”
- Thai: “เกาะพอร์โตซานโต”
- Turkish: “Porto Santo”
- Ukrainian: “Порту-Санту (муніципалітет)”
- Ukrainian: “Порту-Санту”
- Urdu: “پورٹو سانتو آئی لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Porto Santo”
- Vietnamese: “Porto Santo (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Porto Santo”
- Volapük: “Porto Santo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Porto Santo”
- “Porto Santo”
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Notable Places Nearby
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