Caniço (Santa Cruz)
Civil parish in Madeira, Portugal
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Coat of arms
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(2011)
Caniço (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐˈnisu]) is a parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz in the Madeira Islands. It was elevated to city status in 2005. The population in 2011 was 23,368,[1] in an area of 11.99 km2.[2] Caniço is connected to the urban sprawl of Funchal and is larger than the seat of the municipality. It is located 6 km east of Funchal.
On 17 April 2019, a tour bus crashed on a road near Caniço, killing 29 people.[3]
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See also
- The "sacred heart" statue in Caniço is by Pierre Charles Lenoir
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