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Funchal

municipality and city in Madeira Island, Portugal

1343km

32.63333-16.9

Machico

Machico is the second biggest city in Madeira Island. It has 67.73 km² and 21,321 inhabitants (2004), divided into 5 districts. The municipality is bordered to the south by the municipality of Santa Cruz on the west by Santana and by the Atlantic Ocean on the north and east. Here you can find pedestrian tracks throughout the mountains, lovely beaches, and good restaurants. Every year in the first week of August take place a big food festival. There you can taste various traditional dishes from Madeira. Also some music shows are offered and after closing you can always go to one of the clubs opened all night long.

1354km

32.7-16.7667

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Azores

Portugal

An island in the middle of the atlantic that is part of Portugal. Mark Twain wrote about it in the Innocents Abroad.

Azores

The archipelago of the Azores is an autonomous region of Portugal. This group of islands of the Atlantic Ocean is an ultra peripheral area of the European Union.

Azoreans have developed their own distinct regional identity and cultural traits, from a combination of continental Portuguese customs brought by various waves of immigration and local political and environmental factors.

A small number of alleged hypogea, earthen structures carved into rocks that were used for burials, have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2000 years, implying a human presence on the island before the Portuguese. These kinds of structures have been used in the Azores to store cereals, however, and suggestions by Ribeiro that they might be burial sites are unconfirmed. Detailed examination and dating to authenticate the validity of these speculations is lacking. It is unclear whether these structures are natural or man-made and whether they predate the 15th-century Portuguese colonization of the Azores. Therefore, clear confirmation of a pre-Portuguese human presence in the archipelago has not yet been published.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

16.8°C12.2
Precipitation: 96.9 mm

Feb

16.6°C11.5
Precipitation: 84 mm

Mar

17°C12
Precipitation: 87.7 mm

Apr

17.7°C12.3
Precipitation: 76.7 mm

May

19.1°C13.6
Precipitation: 72 mm

Jun

21.4°C15.8
Precipitation: 39.6 mm

Jul

23.9°C17.8
Precipitation: 26.6 mm

Aug

25.3°C19
Precipitation: 46.1 mm

Sep

24.3°C18.4
Precipitation: 91.9 mm

Oct

21.9°C16.5
Precipitation: 108.5 mm

Nov

19.4°C14.3
Precipitation: 108.7 mm

Dec

17.8°C12.9
Precipitation: 146.9 mm
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