Buraca
Buraca is a former civil parish, located in the municipality of Amadora, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish of Águas Livres. As of the 2011 Census, it had a population of 15 892.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Igreja de Nossa Senhora Mãe de Deus and Benfica railway station.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora Mãe de Deus
Church
Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora Mãe de Deus is a church.
Benfica railway station
Railway station
Photo: Manuel Correia, Public domain.
Benfica Station is a railway station located in the city of Lisbon. It is served by the Sintra and Azambuja Lines. It is operated by Lisbon CP and managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal.
Santa Cruz-Damaia train station
Railway stop
Photo: Dvfernandes, CC0.
Santa Cruz-Damaia train station is a railway stop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alfragide and Alfornelos.
Alfragide
Suburb
Photo: Rúdisicyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alfragide is a parish in Amadora Municipality. The population in 2011 was 17,044, in an area of 2.51 km². Its patron saint is Our Lady of Fatima. In the extreme south of the parish is located the first IKEA store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas of Lisbon.
Carnide
Suburb
Carnide is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Located in northern Lisbon, Carnide is north of São Domingos de Benfica and Benfica, east of Lumiar, and directly south of Lisbon's border with Odivelas. Carnide is situated 2½ km northeast of Buraca.
Buraca
- Type: Suburb with 16,100 residents
- Description: locality and former civil parish in Portugal
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Benfica, Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.74308° or 38° 44′ 35″ northLongitude
-9.20857° or 9° 12′ 31″ westPopulation
16,100Elevation
166 metres (545 feet)Open location code
8CCGPQVR+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 4359845883OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2270629Wikidata ID
Q1010176
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Buraca” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Buraca”
- Cebuano: “Buraca”
- Chechen: “Бурака”
- Dutch: “Buraca”
- French: “Buraca”
- German: “Buraca”
- Kazakh: “Бурака”
- Portuguese: “Buraca (amadora)”
- Portuguese: “Buraca (freguesia de portugal)”
- Portuguese: “Buraca (freguesia de Portugal)”
- Portuguese: “Buraca”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia da Buraca”
- Russian: “Бурака”
- Spanish: “Buraca (Amadora)”
- Spanish: “Buraca”
- Tatar: “Бурака”
- Turkish: “Buraca”
- Ukrainian: “Бурака”
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