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Garganta Funda

Paúl do Mar · Far West

Photo: Taz Gamia · Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

From the tour · The Far West What the guide says at Garganta Funda
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Twenty seconds of The Far West, written for this very spot. On the tour it plays by itself as you arrive.

One of Madeira's highest waterfalls, dropping around 150 m into an inaccessible ravine near the western tip. You view it from a clifftop, not from below. A short but rough, unmarked path leads to the viewpoint. It only flows meaningfully after rain and can vanish in dry spells, so time your visit for autumn through spring. Very few tourists make it out here. Warning: unprotected cliff edge: stay well back, especially in wind.

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