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Its first higher education institution, a medical school, was founded in Funchal in the 18th century. In 1978, the University of Lisbon established a satellite campus in Madeira, and from 1983 to 1986, today's campus began taking shape, offering courses in the areas of science and technology, arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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96.2% University of Madeira: 585 557 95.2% Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra: 1800 1711 95.1% University of Coimbra: 3102 2935 94.6% University of Aveiro: 2039 1910 93.7% University of Beira Interior: 1270 1167 91.9% University of Évora: 1035 927 89.6% University of the Azores: 653 564 86.4% University of the Algarve: 1755 1506 85.8%
The Madeira Football Association (Associação de Futebol da Madeira, abrv. AF Madeira ) is the regional governing body for the all football competitions in the former Portuguese district of Funchal , including both Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island .
2021–22 3,808 2022–23 8,509 Season Mean 2023–24 7,320 Honours. National ... (in Portuguese). Funchal: Diário de Notícias da Madeira. External links
Electricity on Madeira is provided solely through EEM (Empresa de Electricidade da Madeira, SA, which holds a monopoly for the provision of electrical supply on the autonomous region) and consists largely of fossil fuels, but with a significant supply of seasonal hydroelectricity from the levada system, wind power and a small amount of solar.
As of 2021, Madeira had a total population of 245,595. The island is the top of a massive submerged shield volcano that rises about 6 km (3.7 mi) from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano formed atop an east–west rift [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in the oceanic crust along the African Plate , beginning during the Miocene epoch over 5 million years ago ...
The Laurisilva of Madeira (Portuguese: Floresta Laurissilva da Madeira) is a natural place declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. [1] It is considered a very valuable relic, due to its size and quality, of the laurisilva, a type of laurel forest that was very abundant in the past and is practically extinct today. It is believed to be ...