Boa Ventura

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Boa Ventura

Total population

1,537

Coordinates32.82°, -16.97°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Boaventura is a civil parish in the municipality of São Vicente in the Portuguese island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 1,221, in an area of 25.30 km2.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

António de Abreu

Portuguese explorer

J

Jakob Israel Belmonte

T

The Advent

British composer and disc jockey

Rigo 23

Portuguese painter (born 1966)

J

Jerônimo de Ornelas Meneses de Vasconcelos

1691 - uncertain 1760

D

Don Buck

New Zealand gum digger

F

Frank Thompson

Portuguese baseball player (1852–1925)

Paul Alexander Zino

Portuguese-British ornithologist

L

Luís Jardim

Portuguese musician

A

Alberto Lume

Brazilian painter

A

Antonio Abreu

Portuguese guitarist and composer

Carina Freitas

Portuguese writer

C

Carlos Menezes

Portuguese guitarist (1920-2011)

E

Emanuel Aguiar

Portuguese painter

F

Francisco João Roscio

Portuguese architect

F

Francisco de Bettencourt

1500

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Boa Ventura

Roteiros republicanos

Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações do Centenário da República (Portugal) · 2010

Uma luz no fim do túnel

2001

II Reis

2015

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Pteris incompleta

Pteris incompleta

Seen 2026-09-17

Rough Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum hispidulum

Seen 2026-09-17

Delta Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum raddianum

Seen 2026-09-17

greater plantain

Plantago major

Seen 2026-09-17

Common Wild Iris

Dietes iridioides iridioides

Seen 2026-09-17

Wandering Sunset

Uresiphita gilvata

Seen 2026-09-17

Island Darter

Sympetrum nigrifemur

Seen 2026-09-17

Belladonna Lily

Amaryllis belladonna

Seen 2026-09-17

Milesia crabroniformis

Milesia crabroniformis

Seen 2026-09-17

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).