Madeira

Madeira is a sub-tropical archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and is an autonomous region of . The archipelago is made up of two populated islands, Madeira and , and two groups of unpopulated islands called the 1 Desertas and Selvagens Islands.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Funchal and Porto Santo.

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is the capital and main city of the autonomous region of Madeira, on the island of Madeira, in its south between Santa Cruz and Câmara de Lobos. In 2021, it was home 106,000 people.

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is the northernmost and easternmost island in 's Madeira archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The only significant settlement on the island is the town of "Vila Baleira".

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is a municipality and town in the southern coast of the island of Madeira, divided in 5 freguesias. A de facto suburb of the much larger capital city of , it is one of the larger population centres and an extension of the Funchal economy.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Santana and Machico.

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, short form for Santa Ana is a municipality along the northern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of the same name. The population in 2011 was 7,719, in an area of 95.56 square kilometres.

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is the second biggest city in Madeira Island. Here you can find pedestrian tracks throughout the mountains, lovely beaches, and good restaurants.

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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.

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is on the southwest coast of Madeira. Whilst in town consider visiting the historic, picturesque fishing villages of Paul do Mar and Jardim do Mar which were venues in 2001 for the World Surfing Championships.

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is a village on the northeast corner of the island of Madeira. It is popular with surfers, sunbathers, and hikers. has a nice waterfront and small sandy pocket beach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pico Ruivo and Grande.

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is the highest peak on Madeira Island and the third highest in , standing at 1,861 metres in the municipality. Accessible only by foot, it can be reached from either or via a shorter, easier trail from .

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is a peak.

Peak
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is the second highest peak on the Atlantic island of Madeira, . It lies roughly midway between the and Pico do Arieiro at an elevation of 1,853 metres and is only accessible from the trail between these two peaks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Curral das Freiras and Serra de Água.

Village
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is a civil parish in the municipality of in the archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 2,001, in an area of 25.03 km2.

Village
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is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Brava on the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 1,049, in an area of 24.16 km2.

Locality
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is a mountain and a settlement of the freguesia of Santana, of the municipality of , Ilha da Madeira. It has a natural attraction in basalt stone which is called the "standing man".

Madeira

Latitude
32.741° or 32° 44′ 28″ north
Longitude
-16.968° or 16° 58′ 5″ west
Population
268,000
Elevation
1,103 metres (3,619 feet)
Inception
April 30th, 1976
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13700879250
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
2593105
Wiki­data ID
Q26253
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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”
  • Bengali: “মাডেইরা”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Madeira”
  • Hebrew: “איי מדיירה”
  • Hebrew: “איי מדירה”
  • Hebrew: “מדיירה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מדיירה”
  • Hindi: “मदीरा”
  • Hindi: “मदेरा”
  • Hungarian: “Madeira-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Madeira”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Madeira”
  • Ossetian: “Мадейрæ”
  • Ossetian: “Мадейра”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਡੇਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “archipiélago”
  • Papiamento: “Madeira”
  • 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”
  • Pushto: “مادیرا”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “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”
  • Tajik: “Мадейра”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Madeyra”
  • 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”

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