Porto Santo

Porto Santo is the northernmost and easternmost island in 's archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The only significant settlement on the island is the town of "Vila Baleira".
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  • Type: Locality with 5,480 residents
  • Description: municipality in Madeira, Portugal
  • Also known as: “ilha Dourada”, “Isla de Porto Santo”, “Isla Porto Santo”, “Município do Porto Santo”, “Porto Santo (đô thị)”, “Porto Santo (gemeente)”, “Porto Santo Island”, “Porto Santo Island Municipality”, “Porto Santo municipality”, “Porto-Santo”, and “Порту-Санту (муніципалітет)”
Photo: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Porto Santo Island and Pico do Facho.

Island
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is a island and…

Peak
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the highest peak on Porto Santo Island, with 517 m in altitude.

Peak
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is a 437 m high volcano-shaped peak on Porto Santo Island.

Porto Santo

Latitude
33.072° or 33° 4′ 19″ north
Longitude
-16.3415° or 16° 20′ 29″ west
Population
5,480
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
Open location code
8C553MC5+QC
Geo­Names ID
8014047
Wiki­data ID
Q27320
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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: “圣港”
  • Czech: “Porto Santo”
  • Danish: “Porto Santo”
  • Dutch: “Porto Santo”
  • Esperanto: “Porto Santo”
  • Finnish: “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”
  • 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: “Freguesia de Porto Santo”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Porto Santo”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Santo”
  • Russian: “Порту-Санту”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ටෝ සැන්ටෝ දූපත”
  • Slovenian: “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”
  • Urdu: “پورٹو سانتو آئی لینڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Porto Santo”
  • Vietnamese: “Porto Santo”
  • Volapük: “Porto Santo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Porto Santo”
  • “Porto Santo”

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