PORTO-SANTENSES VALUES - PORTO SANTO ISLAND ASPIRING THE UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE 

Although small, the island of Porto Santo contains heritage values ​​of undoubted importance in the local, regional and international context.

We want to make you aware of the aspects of Porto Santo's identity that make the island of Porto Santo a very special territory and which support our candidacy for UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve.

Gastronomy

The hand mill, an indispensable tool for any Porto-Santos family of yore, was used to grind grain and obtain flour. After sifting the finest wheat flour was used in the “bolo do caco”, bread so designated because it was made on top of a volcanic rock - the shard, heated by fire and based on a metallic structure - the trivet. The flour was also used in the production of couscous, cooked with “steam” in the clay couscous and sprinkled with a sprig of savory wet in the water.

Porto Santo, like you there is no equal!

Application of the island of Porto Santo to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

PORTO-SANTENSES VALUES - PORTO SANTO ISLAND ASPIRING THE UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE 

Although small, the island of Porto Santo contains heritage values ​​of undoubted importance in the local, regional and international context.

We want to make you aware of the aspects of Porto Santo's identity that make the island of Porto Santo a very special territory and which support our candidacy for UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve.

Torrential Correction

The torrential correction of streams, where erosion in a ravine was significantly expressed and in which erosive phenomena were manifested with serious gravity, was one of the main priorities in the scope of forestry interventions developed on the island of Porto Santo. The construction of dams in several water lines, in harmony with the afforestation of the lands of the river basins or their margins, in order to revert so intense and widespread soil degradation, shows this effort in edaphic protection, which is expressed in the words of Engineer Silvicultor Campos Andrada: «With these works, which are hidden, so to speak buried in the slopes of the streams, thousands of tons of cages that would otherwise be dragged to the sea are stopped».

Porto Santo, like you there is no equal!

Application of the island of Porto Santo to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve