Porto Brandão
Porto Brandão is a locality in the freguesia of Caparica e Trafaria, Almada Municipality, Portugal. It is situated in a strategic location by the Tejo river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belém Tower and Porto Brandão ferry terminal.
Belém Tower
Photo: Rehman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Belém Tower, officially the Tower of Saint Vincent is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.
Porto Brandão ferry terminal
Station
Photo: Rúdisicyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Porto Brandão ferry terminal is a station.
Monument to the Discoveries
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 4.0.
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banática and Monte de Caparica.
Banática
Hamlet
Banática is a small town at Almada, Portugal. Its name may derive from the Arabic language word for prince. It is the first port at the Tejo. It has a Repsol oil refinery, a sports club, Clube Recreativo e Desportivo de Banática, and a coast control unit of the Portuguese Republican National Guard.
Monte de Caparica
Town
Photo: Rúdisicyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caparica is a former civil parish in the municipality of Almada, Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged with the civil parish of Trafaria into the new parish Caparica e Trafaria.
Porto Brandão
- Type: Hamlet with 658 residents
- Description: human settlement in Portugal
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Caparica e Trafaria, Almada, Setúbal District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.67685° or 38° 40′ 37″ northLongitude
-9.2072° or 9° 12′ 26″ westPopulation
658Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)Open location code
8CCGMQGV+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1461294437OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2264445Wikidata ID
Q7232147
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Porto Brandão” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Porto Brandão”
- French: “Porto Brandão”
- German: “Porto Brandão”
- Japanese: “ポルト・ブランダン”
- Portuguese: “Porto Brandão”
- Spanish: “Porto Brandao”
- Spanish: “Porto Brandão”
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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 “Porto Brandão”. Photo: Adriao, CC BY 3.0.