Camacha

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Camacha

Total population

7,991

Land area19.58 km²

Coordinates32.68°, -16.84°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Camacha is a parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz, on the southeastern part of Madeira Island. It is situated in the mountainous interior of the island, 3 km north of Caniço, 7 km northeast of Funchal and 6 km west of Santa Cruz. The population in 2011 was 7,449, in an area of 19.77 km2.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar

Portuguese politician (1865-1938)

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Fernão de Ornelas

Portuguese lawyer (1908-1978)

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Joel Serrão

Portuguese historian (1919-2008)

José Ferreira Pestana

Portuguese politician of the constitutional monarchy

Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt

Portuguese politician (1810-1874)

Berto Correia de Sousa

Portuguese banker

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Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos

Portuguese poet and notary

Emanuel Janes

Portuguese historian

João Francisco Camacho

Maria Eugénia de Canavial

Portuguese philanthropist

Lígia Brazão

Portuguese teacher

Laura Veridiana Castro e Almeida

Portuguese writer

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José Dinis Aveiro

Cristiano Ronaldo's father

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Teresa Clode

Portuguese teacher and radialist

Matilde Sauvayre da Câmara

Portuguese writer (1871-1957)

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Jerónimo Dias Leite

Portuguese clergy and historian

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

Nearby places in Madeira

• Caniço
  1.9 mi away · pop. 20,163
• Santa Cruz
  3.2 mi away · pop. 6,952
• Santo António da Serra
  3.4 mi away · pop. 1,355
• Funchal
  4.2 mi away · pop. 111,541
• Água de Pena
  4.7 mi away · pop. 1,759
• Maroços
  4.8 mi away
• Ribeiro Frio
  4.8 mi away
• Ribeira Seca
  5.5 mi away
• Machico
  5.5 mi away · pop. 11,505
• Fajã das Murtas
  6.1 mi away
• São Roque do Faial
  6.4 mi away · pop. 386
• Lombo de Cima
  6.4 mi away

Browse all places in Madeira →

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 Camacha

Landschaften auf Madeira

Pat und John Underwood · 1997

Search results from Open Library.

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