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Flooding in Funchal Waves during the flooding. An extreme weather event affected Madeira Island in Portugal's autonomous Madeira archipelago on 20 February 2010. The resulting flash floods and mudslides killed 51 people, of whom 6 are still to be found, and injured 250. Around 600 people were left homeless. [1] [2]
Funchal Baptist Church was established in Madeira in 1976. It is located at Rua Silvestre Quintino de Freitas, and provides English services in the morning and Portuguese in the evening. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established on Madeira in 1983.
João Abel de Freitas - 568 m / 581 m Santa Luzia ( 11 ) – Pestana Júnior 1,450 Marmeleiros - 705 m / 738 m Quinta da Palmeira - 243 m / 264 m Pestana Júnior ( 12 ) – Boa Nova 1,900 João Gomes - 138 m / 140 m Jardim Botânico - 210 m / 208 m REPSOL Cota 200 - Km 18,900 [7] Boa Nova ( 13 ) – Pinheiro Grande 2,375
The two ends of the field are occupied by tall fencing. On 1 June 2007 the stadium was renamed to Estádio da Madeira after the club reached an agreement with the local government to promote the region. The name also symbolises the fact that the stadium is the most modern sports venue on the island of Madeira, though not the biggest. That ...
Funchal Bay in 1885, Madeira, view from the east. Funchal Bay is a large bay opposite the main city of Funchal on the island of Madeira, located in the North Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Morocco in north Africa. [1] Funchal has its harbour within the bay. Belmond Reid's Palace is located on the headland at the western end of the bay ...
The Quinta da Boa Vista is a historic quinta ('estate') and orchid garden in the Santa Maria Maior parish of Funchal on the island of Madeira, overlooking the central and western parts of Funchal. It contains one of the last remaining walled stair terrace gardens of Funchal and continues to draw its water from the levada irrigation system. [ 1 ]
The 2016 Portugal wildfires are a series of wildfires that burned across mainland Portugal and the Madeira archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean during August 2016 that prompted the evacuation of more than one thousand people [3] and destroyed at least 37 homes near Funchal on Madeira island.
São Pedro (Portuguese for "Saint Peter") is a civil parish in the municipality of Funchal in the island of Madeira.The population in 2011 was 7,273, [1] in an area of 1.49 km².