Ferragudo
Ferragudo is a Portuguese civil parish at the western border of the municipality of Lagoa. The population in 2011 was 1,973, in an area of 5.41 km2. Ferragudo serves mainly as a bedroom community for its much larger neighbour, the city of Portimão; its residents routinely travel across the Arade River to work in the neighboring municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Praia da Angrinha and Fort of São João do Arade.
Praia da Angrinha
Beach
Praia da Angrinha is situated along the wide estuary of the Arade River, south of Ferragudo, in Lagoa Municipality, Portugal. Map location: Protected by the large moles extending out towards the Portimão shore opposite, the beach is long and enclosed by heights in the land, now much eroded by the elements.
Fort of São João do Arade
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The Fort of São João do Arade, sometimes referred to as the Castle of Arade, is a medieval fortification situated in the civil parish of Ferragudo in the Portuguese Algarve municipality of Lagoa.
Praia Grande
Beach
Photo: Joergsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Praia Grande is a beach situated in the civil parish of Ferragudo, municipality of Lagoa, the Portuguese Algarve. One of many beaches to obtain the name Praia Grande, this coastal zone is located on the eastern back of Rio Arade estuary, south of the town of Ferragudo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parchal and Portimão.
Parchal
Town
Photo: Pacanherros, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Parchal is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality of Lagoa, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Estômbar e Parchal. The population in 2011 was 4,019, in an area of 3.86 km2.
Portimão
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portimão is the second biggest city in the Algarve, Portugal, and famous for its fresh fish restaurants, grilled sardines being the most famous dish. It's very close to one of the most well known beaches in the Algarve, Praia da Rocha, and there are numerous others nearby.
Estômbar
Town
Estômbar is a town in the civil parish of Estômbar e Parchal, in the municipality of Lagoa, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,985, in an area of 24.21 km2. Estômbar is situated 4 km northeast of Ferragudo.
Ferragudo
- Type: Town with 1,540 residents
- Description: civil parish in Lagoa
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal, third-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Ferragudo, Lagoa, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.12359° or 37° 7′ 25″ northLongitude
-8.51989° or 8° 31′ 12″ westPopulation
1,540Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT FEROpen location code
8C9H4FFJ+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 144973422OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Ferragudo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ferragudo”
- Cebuano: “Ferragudo”
- Chechen: “Феррагуду”
- Chinese: “Ferragudo”
- Dutch: “Ferragudo”
- French: “Ferragudo”
- German: “Ferragudo”
- Irish: “Ferragudo”
- Italian: “Ferragudo”
- Kazakh: “Ferragwdw”
- Kazakh: “Феррагуду”
- Kazakh: “فەرراگۋدۋ”
- Malay: “Ferragudo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ferragudo”
- Portuguese: “Ferragudo”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Ferragudo”
- Russian: “Феррагуду”
- Spanish: “Ferragudo”
- Tatar: “Феррагуду”
- Turkish: “Ferragudo”
- “Ferragudo”
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