Caniço (Santa Cruz)

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Canico is with 23,361 inhabitants (as of 30 June 2011) is the fastest growing community in Madeira and belongs to the district of Santa Cruz. The in several districts and separate settlements widely dispersed community located on the east coast of the island at an altitude from 0 to 400 meters ( 230 feet main town ), about eight kilometers east of the capital, Funchal.

History of the site

The place was until the late 1960s, a hillside village with numerous small scattered farmsteads and tiny fishing port, which had about 1,200 inhabitants. Many of the farmers' children had to migrate to the mainland or to South America from poverty - primarily Venezuela - to emigrate.

In 1967, investors have discovered the 30-40 meter high cliff for tourist settlements and started to coastal parcels in the " Contracta - urbanization" colonization. In the new sub-location of Canico de Baixo initially mainly German holiday home buyers have settled as residents and long- time tourist in about 120 bungalows, villas and three apartment buildings. Soon, a working agricultural Felsenbad with a restaurant and a shop were added, a little later began the development with smaller hotels. After the opening of the extended start and runway of the airport of Madeira ( September 2000), which is only nine miles to the east, a new wave of international investment groups began in large hotels and resorts along the coast flatter in the east. Now also widebody aircraft from overseas can reach the island and utilize the large hotels better.

The respondents to the tourist expansion in 1995 created good public infrastructure ( highway access, road network expansion, slope surveying ) and the offer of employment in the service sector have increasingly attracted younger people from Funchal, the island's interior. Even many repatriates from Venezuela and Brazil are to be found among the new citizens. The EU and mainland -based Madeira can offer them now more opportunities than the South American emigration areas. The new citizens live predominantly in tenements and homes in some exposed slopes, like a ring around the center of the village are grouped.

Canico has twelve medium and large hotels and some smaller landlords with a total of approximately 3,000 beds. Together with the immediate west adjacent Garajau it forms to Funchal 's second largest tourist site on the island.

The earlier flowering, but very small -scale agriculture ( cultivation of onions, bananas and sugar cane, Einzelkuhhaltung in the shed, fish farming in freshwater pool at the house ) is to in-house consumption growing virtually disappeared.

Sons and daughters of the town

• José Alfredo Caires de Nobrega ( born 1951 ), Bishop in the Diocese of Mananjary in Madagascar

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