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The Museu CR7 is a museum that is dedicated to Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's trophies. It is located in Ronaldo's birthplace, the city of Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Above the museum is a hotel, built in partnership between Ronaldo and the Pestana Group. [1]
A 2019 paper published in PLOS One estimated that under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5, a "moderate" scenario of climate change where global warming reaches ~2.5–3 °C (4.5–5.4 °F) by 2100, the climate of Funchal in the year 2050 would most closely resemble the current climate of Rabat in Morocco. The annual temperature and the ...
Savage Islands (3.6 km 2 or 1.4 sq mi), archipelago 280 km south-southeast of Madeira Island including three main uninhabited islands and 16 islets in two groups: the Northwest Group (Selvagem Grande Island, Ilhéu de Palheiro da Terra, Ilhéu de Palheiro do Mar) and the Southeast Group (Selvagem Pequena Island, Ilhéu Grande, Ilhéu Sul ...
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 Climate Museum is a nonprofit organization in New York City and the first museum dedicated to climate change and climate solutions in the United States. [1] [2] Its mission is "to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions."
Seixal is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto Moniz in the Portuguese island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 656, [ 1 ] in an area of 36.37 km 2 . [ 2 ]
Lugar de Baixo has a warm year-round Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa) with an average winter daily max of 20 °C (68 °F) and low of 13.5 °C (56.3 °F). The most extreme temperatures recorded during the 1961-1990 period were 8.0 °C (46.4 °F) on February, and 36.4 °C (97.5 °F) on August. [ 2 ]
The volcanic soils are generally fertile, sustaining both the native forests and agriculture on the two larger islands. [2] The islands of Madeira and Porto Santo are inhabited. The archipelago has a population of 289,000 (2016 estimate), mostly on Madeira. Funchal, on Madeira's south shore, is the islands' largest city and principal port.