Raposeira

Raposeira is a village and former civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, District of Faro, in Algarve region, Portugal. It is told that it is named after fox because raposa means fox in Portuguese.

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Type: Village with 293 residents
Description: former civil parish in Portugal
Also known as: “Freguesia de Raposeira”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Igreja matriz de Vila do Bispo and Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo.

Igreja matriz de Vila do Bispo

Church

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Igreja matriz de Vila do Bispo is a church.

Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo

Town hall

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Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo is a town hall.

Menhirs of Padrão

Archaeological site

Photo: Pedro Ponce Asensio, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Menhirs of Padrão are a group of fifteen megalithic menhirs located in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, in the Faro District of the Algarve region of Portugal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Figueira and Budens.

Figueira

Village

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Figueira is a village near Portimão in the Algarve in Portugal. In the English-speaking world its main claim to fame is the disappearance there, on 12 September 2004, of a local girl, eight-year-old Joana Cipriano, and the subsequent conviction of her mother and uncle for murder. Figueira is situated 4 km east of Raposeira.

Budens

Village

Photo: Frank Jahnholz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Budens is a village, which is situated 5 km east of Raposeira.

Salema

Neighborhood

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Vila do Bispo is a town and municipality in Portugal's Algarve. It includes the destinations of Sagres and Salema. Salema is situated 6 km east of Raposeira.

Raposeira

Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
Location: Vila do Bispo e Raposeira, Vila do Bispo, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude

37.08329° or 37° 4′ 60″ north

Longitude

-8.8896° or 8° 53′ 23″ west

Population

293

Elevation

68 metres (223 feet)

Open location code

8C9H34M6+85

OpenStreetMap ID

node 262951476

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

2264059

Wikidata ID

Q2743864

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Raposeira” goes by many names.

Arabic: “رابوسايرا”
Asturian: “Raposeira”
Cebuano: “Raposeira”
Chechen: “Рапозейра”
Chinese: “Raposeira”
Dutch: “Raposeira”
Esperanto: “Raposeira”
French: “Freguesia de Raposeira”
German: “Freguesia de Raposeira”
German: “Raposeira”
Kazakh: “Рапозейра”
Min Nan Chinese: “Raposeira”
Portuguese: “Freguesia de Raposeira”
Portuguese: “Raposeira (freguesia)”
Portuguese: “Raposeira”
Russian: “Рапозейра”
Spanish: “Freguesia de Raposeira”
Spanish: “Raposeira (Vila do Bispo)”
Spanish: “Raposeira”
Tatar: “Рапозейра”
Turkish: “Raposeira”
Turkish: “Rates”
“Freguesia de Raposeira”

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