Ponta De Sao Lourenco From Baixas Do Guincho, The Vicinity Of The Island`s New Port. Madeira Island. Royalty-Free Stock Image

Ponta de Sao Lourenco - Portuguese for the Point of Saint Lawrence - is the easternmost point of the island of Madeira. It is inside the town of Canical and forms a part of the municipality of Machico. Its terrain are made up of rocks and herbaceous vegetation. Since 1982, the headland is a nature reserve, where it has the conservation of its endemic plants including Matthiola maderensis, Echium nervosum, and Andryala glandulosa, and it has fauna, including birds, insects, and molluscs. One of them is Monachus monachus, a seal. Its geology consists of pyroclastic rocks as well as basalt dykes dikes and some coasts being eroded. The group dates back to the Late Pleistocene, about 100,000 years ago. Madeira, Portugal, Europe.