Machico

Machico is the second biggest city in Island. Here you can find pedestrian tracks throughout the mountains, lovely beaches, and good restaurants.
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  • Type: City with 11,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Madeira, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Machico Municipality” and “Machico, Madeira”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Madeira Airport and Forte de Nossa Senhora do Amparo.

Aerodrome
Photo: Alberto-g-rovi, CC BY 3.0.
Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport — also known as , Funchal Airport, and formerly Santa Catarina Airport — is an in the civil parish of in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of .

Castle
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is a castle.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Cruz and Caniçal.

Photo: jad99, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipality, a parish and a city in the eastern part of the island of Madeira. It is the second most populous municipality, behind . The population in 2011 was 43,005, in an area of 81.50 km2.

Town
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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.

Village
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is a civil parish in the municipality of Machico on the south-east coast of the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 2,434, in an area of 5.15 km².

Machico

Latitude
32.7229° or 32° 43′ 22″ north
Longitude
-16.7659° or 16° 45′ 57″ west
Population
11,500
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT MCH
Open location code
8C45P6FM+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25269573
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2266895
Wiki­data ID
Q693243
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Satellite Map

Discover Machico from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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