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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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
Photo: Elingunnur, CC BY 3.0.
Igreja matriz de Vila do Bispo is a church.
Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo
Town hall
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo is a town hall.
Menir de Aspradantes
Archaeological site
Photo: Rmatospi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Menir de Aspradantes is an archaeological site, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Raposeira.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Figueira and Budens.
Figueira
Village
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
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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″ northLongitude
-8.8896° or 8° 53′ 23″ westPopulation
293Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)Open location code
8C9H34M6+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 262951476OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2264059Wikidata 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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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 Wikipedia page “Raposeira”. Photo: Dogpochi, CC BY 3.0.