2. • Porto Santo is a Portuguese municipality that is part of
the Autonomous Region of Madeira.
• It has 42.48 km ² and there is 5,483 people living in this
city.
• It is one of the five municipalities of Portugal,
which have a single parish, which has the same name.
• The city closest to it is to Machico, on Madeira
Island, located to the southwest.
• The municipal holiday oh the island is on June 24.
3. • The island of Porto Santo was discovered in 1418 by
João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.
• It is said that his name was given by the browsers that they found shelter
from a storm that chased.
• Perestrelo was named Grantee Island.
• Being the first island colonized, it became the culture of cereals, took
advantage of a dyematerial, the dragon's blood, a plant known
for dragoeira, now defunct, promoted livestock raising and planting of the
vineyard...
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5. • Your soil is quite sandy and very poor in nutrients.
• Rainfall is very low compared with that of Madeira.
• An island is extremely flat.
• Has a beautiful sandy beach, 9 miles long.
• Has lots of palm trees.
• Is located in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Is located 50 kilometers northeast of the island of
Madeira.
6. • The main industry of the island of Porto Santo is
tourism. Owing it to the beach and its temperate climate,
many of the hotels and resorts were built in the twentieth
century.
• The island has a golf course that was
designed by golf champion, Severiano Ballesteros.
• Also includes eight tennis courts and an equestrian
center (Ring Ana Ferreira).
• The central island has an airport with regular flights to
Funchal (15 minutes)
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8. • The sandy beach of Porto Santo have therapeutic efficacy.
• The greatest horse of Portugal is the equestrian
center port saint. Its name Obelix.
• On August 28, 1960 was inaugurated the Porto Santo
Airport, the first of the archipelago. The people housed there had
to move to a neighborhood built especially for this purpose,
the New Dragoal.
• The original lighting was made by Vila Baleira oil lamps that the
City had put in the mainstreets of the Vila Baleira in 1931. Only in
1954 is that the electricity has replaced the
obsoletelamps "petromax." That same year he also
began distribution network of drinking water at home.
