Top View. Madeira. is a photograph by Andy i Za which was uploaded on December 23rd, 2015.
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Title
Top View. Madeira.
Artist
Andy i Za
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art - Photograph
Description
Nature of Madeira. The floating garden of the Atlantic.
Madeira is the home to hundreds of thousands of different plant species and is well known for its exotic plants and rare orchids. Madeira has over a dozen gardens and parks built to protect and display their wealth of flora. Madeira was awarded the distinction of being a World Nature Heritage by UNESCO in 1999.
Levadas Madeira. Madeira is a volcanic Island. Levadas are man-made water channels designed to carry water from excess rainfall in the interior to the agricultural fields that extend all around the island. They are public property, along which anyone may enjoy a walk. The building of these remarkable channels started in the 15th century; suspended by ropes men hammered and tunneled many miles through solid rock many slaves and convicts died in their construction.
The first channels were built from wooden planks, then as water demand grew these channels were extended and better techniques were applied and built in solid masonry. They are managed by a Levadeiro; a person in charge of maintaining the levadas and who distributes the water to each landowner. The most recent Levadas to be built were Levada do Norte and the Levada dos Tornos completed in 1970, an important project commissioned by the Portuguese government being mainly to provide hydroelectric power. Levada walking has become popular since the 1980s. All offer amazing scenery and whilst some are easy to walk there are more challenging routes built along Madeira’s high cliffs that cut through the Laurisilva Forest.
This pre-historic woodland has the greatest natural value and biological diversity with a wide variety of rare flora and fauna. Worldwide the Madeira ancient Laurisilva forest is regarded as the largest of its kind and was classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.
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December 23rd, 2015
