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Cabo da Roca

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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: cape
  • Also known as: “Cape Roca” and “Promontorium Magnum”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cabo da Roca Lighthouse and Praia do Louriçal.

Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a beacon/lighthouse located 165 metres above the Atlantic Ocean, on Portugal's most westerly extent. It is located in the civil parish of , in the municipality of , situated on a promontory made up of granite boulders and interspersed limestone.

Beach
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is a beach.

Beach
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Azóia and Almoçageme.

Hamlet
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is a village in the municipality of in the southwest of the district of Lisbon, Portugal. lies 1 km from the Cabo da Roca, the most westerly point of the European continent, which makes it the westernmost village on the European continent.

Neighborhood
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is a village on the Portuguese municipality of and in the Freguesia of . The name is obviously Arab in origin – the Iberian peninsula is packed with Muslim toponyms that are a legacy of the five hundred years the Moors stayed over. is situated 3 km northeast of Cabo da Roca.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Cabo da Roca.

Cabo da Roca

Latitude
38.78091° or 38° 46′ 51″ north
Longitude
-9.49942° or 9° 29′ 58″ west
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
Open location code
8CCGQGJ2+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2696775247
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
2263811
Wiki­data ID
Q169175
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Cabo da Roca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaap Roca”
  • Arabic: “كابو دا روكا”
  • Asturian: “Cabu de la Roca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roka burnu”
  • Basque: “Roca”
  • Belarusian: “Мыс Рока”
  • Belarusian: “Рока”
  • Bengali: “কাবো দা রোকা”
  • Breton: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Bulgarian: “Кабу да Рока”
  • Catalan: “cap de la Roca”
  • Catalan: “Cap de la Roca”
  • Cebuano: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Chinese: “卡布罗卡”
  • Chinese: “罗卡角”
  • Chinese: “羅卡角”
  • Croatian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Czech: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Czech: “mys Roca”
  • Czech: “Mys Roca”
  • Czech: “Roca”
  • Danish: “Kap Roca”
  • Dutch: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Esperanto: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Finnish: “Cabo da Roca”
  • French: “Cabo da Roca”
  • French: “cap de la Roque”
  • French: “Cap de Roca”
  • Galician: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Georgian: “როკის კონცხი”
  • German: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Hebrew: “קאבו דה רוקה”
  • Hungarian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Icelandic: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Icelandic: “Rocahöfði”
  • Indonesian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Italian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Japanese: “ロカ岬”
  • Kabardian: “Къуапэ Рока”
  • Kazakh: “Рока мүйісі”
  • Korean: “호카 곶”
  • Korean: “호카곶”
  • Latin: “Promunturium Ophiussa”
  • Latin: “Promunturium Ophiussal”
  • Latvian: “Rokas rags”
  • Lithuanian: “Rokos kyšulys”
  • Lithuanian: “Uolos kyšulys”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Roca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Roca”
  • Norwegian: “Kapp Roca”
  • Persian: “کابو دا روکا”
  • Polish: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Polish: “Przylądek Roca”
  • Polish: “Roca”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Romanian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Romanian: “Capul Roca”
  • Russian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Russian: “Кабу-да-Рока”
  • Russian: “Мыс Рока”
  • Russian: “Рока”
  • Scots: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Serbian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Serbian: “Kabo da Roka”
  • Serbian: “Кабо да Рока”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Slovak: “Skalnatý mys”
  • Slovenian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Slovenian: “Roca”
  • Slovenian: “Rt Roca”
  • Spanish: “Cabo da roca”
  • Spanish: “Cabo de la Roca”
  • Swedish: “Kap Roca”
  • Turkish: “Cabo da roca”
  • Turkish: “Cabo do Roca”
  • Turkish: “Roca Burnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Рока”
  • Uzbek: “Roka”
  • Venetian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Vietnamese: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Vietnamese: “Mũi Cabo da Roca”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cabo da Roca”. Photo: François Philipp, CC BY 2.0.