Praia da Calheta, Portugal

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Praia da Calheta

Madeira · Portugal

Photo: Don Amaro / Wikimedia Commons

The short version, from the cited sources

Praia da Calheta is a beach located near the town Calheta, on the island of Madeira, Portugal.

Country
Portugal (PT)
Region
Europe
Surface
Sand
Administrative area
Madeira
Access
Public access (OpenStreetMap).
Timezone
Atlantic/Madeira
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2018-01-11

Names in the record

Praia da Calheta

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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  • Water and swimming character
  • Accessibility
  • Facilities and lifeguards
  • Seasonality and crowd pattern
  • Current hazards and restrictions
  • Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds

Source position

32.71906, -17.17474

The map uses the coordinate supplied by the cited record. Local access and water entry are not implied.

Direct provenance

Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗

    Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.

    ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  3. Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.

    CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  4. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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