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Cape Roca

Cape Roca is a locality in , , and has about 23 residents. Cape Roca is situated nearby to the hamlet , as well as near the locality .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cabo da Roca Lighthouse and Praia do Louriçal.

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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 Cabo da Roca and Azóia.

Locality
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Sintra is a town in , , . Its spectacular setting, 28 km from , houses a Royal Palace, used by generations of Portuguese royalty prior to the 1910 revolution.

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 , 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 Cape Roca.

Cape Roca

Latitude
38.7816° or 38° 46′ 54″ north
Longitude
-9.49702° or 9° 29′ 49″ west
Population
23
Elevation
139 metres (456 feet)
Open location code
8CCGQGJ3+J5
Geo­Names ID
2270532
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Cape Roca” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaap Roca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roka burnu”
  • Basque: “Roca”
  • Belarusian: “Мыс Рока”
  • Breton: “Beg ar Roc’h”
  • Bulgarian: “Кабу да Рока”
  • Catalan: “Cap de la Roca”
  • Cebuano: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Chinese: “罗卡角”
  • Croatian: “Stjenoviti rt”
  • Czech: “Mys Roca”
  • Danish: “Kap Roca”
  • Dutch: “Rotskaap”
  • Finnish: “Cabo da Roca”
  • French: “Cap de Roca”
  • Galician: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Georgian: “როკის კონცხი”
  • German: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Hebrew: “קאבו דה רוקה”
  • Hungarian: “Szikla-fok”
  • Icelandic: “Rocahöfði”
  • Italian: “Capo della Roccia”
  • Japanese: “ロカ岬”
  • Kabardian: “Къуапэ Рока”
  • Korean: “호카곶”
  • Latin: “Promunturium Ophiussa”
  • Lithuanian: “Uolos kyšulys”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Roca”
  • Norwegian: “Kapp Roca”
  • Polish: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Russian: “Мыс Рока”
  • Scots: “Cape Roca”
  • Serbian: “Кабо да Рока”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stjenoviti rt”
  • Slovenian: “Rt Roca”
  • Spanish: “Cabo de la Roca”
  • Swedish: “Kap Roca”
  • Turkish: “Roca Burnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Рока”
  • Venetian: “Cabo da Roca”
  • Vietnamese: “Cabo da Roca”

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