Porto da Cruz
Porto da Cruz is a village on the northeast corner of the Portuguese island of Madeira. It is popular with surfers, sunbathers, and hikers. Porto da Cruz has a nice waterfront and small sandy pocket beach.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penha de Águia and Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Penha de França
Church
Photo: Gilberto Gouveia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Capela de Nossa Senhora da Penha de França is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Faial and São Roque do Faial.
Faial
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Faial is a civil parish in the Madeiran municipality of Santana located along the northern coast of the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 1,567, in an area of 24.03 km².
São Roque do Faial
Village
Porto da Cruz
- Type: Town with 2,600 residents
- Description: civil parish in Machico
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Machico, Madeira, Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.7725° or 32° 46′ 21″ northLongitude
-16.8286° or 16° 49′ 43″ westPopulation
2,600Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT PCZOpen location code
8C45Q5FC+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1832777817OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Porto da Cruz” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Porto da Cruz”
- Cebuano: “Porto da Cruz”
- Chechen: “Порту-да-Круш”
- Chinese: “Porto da Cruz”
- Czech: “Porto da Cruz”
- Dutch: “Porto da Cruz”
- French: “Porto da Cruz”
- German: “Porto da Cruz”
- Hungarian: “Porto da Cruz”
- Irish: “Porto da Cruz”
- Kazakh: “Порту-да-Круш”
- Malay: “Porto da Cruz”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Porto da Cruz”
- Portuguese: “Porto da Cruz”
- Russian: “Порту-да-Круш”
- Spanish: “Porto da Cruz”
- Tatar: “Порту-да-Круш”
- Turkish: “Porto da Cruz”
- Ukrainian: “Порту-да-Круш”
- “Porto da Cruz”
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