Porto Santo Island
Porto Santo Island is a Portuguese island and municipality 43 kilometres northeast of Madeira Island in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is the northernmost and easternmost island of the archipelago of Madeira, located in the Atlantic Ocean west of Europe and Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 Island
- Type: Locality with 5,480 residents
- Description: island in Madeira, Portugal
- Category: island
- Location: Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Ukrainian—“Porto Santo Island” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Porto Santo”
- Basque: “Porto Santo uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Порто Санто”
- Catalan: “Porto Santo”
- Cebuano: “Ilha de Porto Santo”
- Chinese: “圣港岛”
- Czech: “Porto Santo (ostrov)”
- Czech: “Porto Santo”
- Dutch: “Porto Santo (eiland)”
- Dutch: “Porto Santo”
- French: “île de Porto Santo”
- French: “Île de Porto Santo”
- Galician: “Porto Santo”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Porto Santo”
- Italian: “Porto Santo”
- Lombard: “Porto Santo”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Porto Santo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Porto Santo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Porto Santo”
- Russian: “Порту-Санту (остров)”
- Russian: “Порту-Санту”
- Spanish: “Porto Santo”
- Turkish: “Porto Santo Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Порту-Санту”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Porto Santo Island and Porto Santo Airport.
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