History, Geography of Madeira and Eco Tourism

Island located about 450km from the African coast, 750km from the coast 950km south of mainland Portugal's capital, and finally the 1100km of the Azores.
Outside discovered around 1418/19 by Tristan Vaz Teixeira and João Gonçalves Zarco.

The feeling is that they occasionally brought the island of Porto Santo, for being the safe harbor for the boat that was damaged and semi-stranded off the south coast where a beautiful beach hospitable probably save them from the weather of the Atlantic.

The repair has been made with some difficulty and after re to the sea to reach that next island which had mysteriously beautiful and Dantesc.

An island known for its charm and trees across its surface coating, (about 743km2) man would have the arduous task of clearing their forests, "the Mountain of the Sea" as it becomes clear in his own anthem of both pride and in honor and pleasure to say know.
Today it is seen as one of the best destinations and interesting at all levels of tourism that goes in search of leisure in line for relaxing moments that make you find the tranquility of being in peace and leave, considered a spa called natural wood with all its virtues.

No less important are the valuable and famous called Levadas, with a total of 2.450km in length as a whole.

The First Levada is created for irrigation then the rich sugar cane fields that were abundant in Funchal since 1433 and more specifically the first in which the cathedral, substantiated by documents and historically proven.These channels not only characterized by its engineering and rudimentary incontornavelmente effective, today reveals that the most value to the water resources of the island but also for Eco tourism and finally to produce a large share of hydropower (apr.30% ), renewable energy that blesses us since the early days of settlement of this archipelago and when we talk about the famous windmills of water so many abound, its ruins and paths taken by the island.
These channels with the greatest amounts in the regional context represent a major identities of work and character of our people, who built hard in the past for its sustainability and future by terraces, paths and cultivating and taken almost 2 / 3 of its surface in other times.

Today we have the pleasure of knowing and unparalleled leisure and pleasure for us to walk this path and taken to get water to where we need more from its origins to the north where most of the forest Laurissilva Madeirense unmistakable involved in major production of the water from the condensation of the particles of water from the mists and clouds that rise in direct contact their haste to land and its benevolent and natural underground storage has to be our source of water that carried through the famous carry this precious liquid for all Human survival and the utility in this island, and perhaps even the very survival of the first pillar of Economic Madeira: TOURISM.

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