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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Auton region
- Madeira
- Island
- Madeira
- Established
- Settlement: c.1420, Municipality: c.1451, City: 2 August 1996
- President
- Ricardo Miguel Nunes Franco
- Total
- 68.33 km (26.38 sq mi)
- Density
- 319.4/km (827.4/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Postal code
- 9200-099
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Conceição
- Local holiday
- 8 May
- Website
- http://cm-machico.pt/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Machico ( Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐˈʃiku] ) is a municipality, parish and city in the southeast part of the island of Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost municipality on the island, it is also the third-most populous area with a population of 21,828 in 2011. The town, proper, had a population of 10,894 in 2001.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Machico” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.