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Civil parish in Madeira, Portugal

Caniço

Caniço is a parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the Madeira Islands.

Caniço
Caniço · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Caniço is a parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the Madeira Islands. It was elevated to city status in 2005. The population in 2011 was 23,368, in an area of 11.99 km2. Caniço is connected to the urban sprawl of Funchal and is larger than the seat of the municipality. It is located 6 km east of Funchal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Caniço

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Cristo Rei

    The Christ the King statue also known as the Sacred Heart statue, is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Garajau, Madeira.

    1.7 km · Statue in Garajau, Madeira · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Caniço

Airports
Cristiano Ronaldo (FNC), 8 km
  • Faro → Caniço
    947 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €12–17
  • Tenerife → Caniço
    485 km · quickest by air, 8h 7m · €180–280
  • Lisbon → Caniço
    968 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · €33–46
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Caniço

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Caniço. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    1,103 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,223 km
  3. 03
    Santo AntãoCV

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,924 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    2,286 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    2,346 km

If you know how people move in Caniço – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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