Santa Luzia (Funchal)

Santa Luzia
Civil Parish
Official name: Freguesia da Santa Luzia
Name origin: Portuguese for Saint Lucia
Country  Portugal
Region  Madeira
Island Madeira
Municipality Funchal
River Ribeira da Santa Luzia
Center Santa Luzia
 - elevation 144 m (472 ft)
 - coordinates 32°39′30″N 16°54′16″W / 32.65833°N 16.90444°WCoordinates: 32°39′30″N 16°54′16″W / 32.65833°N 16.90444°W
Area 1.34 km2 (1 sq mi)
Population 5,866 (2011)
Density 4,378 / km2 (11,339 / sq mi)
LAU Junta Freguesia
 - location Calçada da Encarnação
President Junta José António Freitas Rodrigues
Timezone WET (UTC0)
 - summer (DST) WEST (UTC+1)
Postal Zone 9050-023
Area Code & Prefix (+351) 291 XX XX XX
Patron Saint Santa Luzia
Location of the parish seat of Santa Luzia in the municipality of Funchal, island of Madeira
Wikimedia Commons: Santa Luzia (Funchal)
Website: http://www.jf-santaluzia.pt

Santa Luzia (Portuguese meaning Saint Lucia) is a parish in the municipality of Funchal in the Madeira Islands. The population in 2011 was 5,866,[1] in an area of 1.34 km².[2]

History

Santa Luzia is one of the four urban parishes of Funchal, which, along with Sé, São Pedro and Imaculado Coração de Maria, developed from the concentration of the first settlers to the southern coast. The parish grew out of necessity, since congestion in the parish of Sé had already limited available lands along the coast. The civil parish's name was a consequence of the older parish of Santa Luzia, but created from the dissection of lands in Sé and Nossa Senhora do Monte.

Geography

Santa Luzia is boxed in by the Ribeira of João Gomes (whose origin is in the Serra do Poiso in the interior), in the east, and on the west by Ribeira de Santa Luzia (which springs from the area around the Pico do Areeiro and Pico do Escalvado, and is responsible for the volume of spring run-off that flows into the Ribeiro de Cideral, Ribeira dos Frades, Ribeira do Pisão an Ribeira do Til.

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