Armação de Pêra
Armação de Pêra is a town and Portuguese parish in the municipality of Silves. The population in 2011 was 4,867, in an area of 7.99 km2. The village used to be called Pêra de Baixo or Lower Pêra to distinguish it from the present Pêra, which was then named Pêra de Cima or Upper Pêra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,240 residents
- Description: civil parish in Silves
- Also known as: “Pêra de Baixo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beijinhos beach and Fort of Nossa Senhora da Rocha.
Fort of Nossa Senhora da Rocha
Protected area
Photo: Rsantus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fort of Nossa Senhora da Rocha is a medieval castle situated in the civil parish of Porches, in the municipality of Lagoa in Portuguese Algarve. Inside the fort is the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Rocha, of uncertain date.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alcantarilha and Porches.
Alcantarilha
Town
Photo: Lacobrigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alcantarilha is a former civil parish in the municipality of Silves, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Alcantarilha e Pêra. With an area of 19.54 square kilometres the population of 2347 inhabitants is dispersed throughout the territory. Alcantarilha is situated 3 km northeast of Armação de Pêra.
Porches
Town
Porches is a civil parish/freguesia in the municipality of Lagoa in Portugal, about 10 km east of the city of Lagoa. The population in 2011 was 2,011, in an area of 15.64 km2. It was elevated to the status of a town on July 12, 2001. Porches is situated 4 km northwest of Armação de Pêra.
Guia
Village
Guia is a town and civil parish in the Portuguese municipality of Albufeira in the Algarve, 5 kilometres from the coast. The population in 2011 was 4,376, in an area of 26.80 km². Guia is situated 6 km northeast of Armação de Pêra.
Armação de Pêra
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal, third-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Armação de Pêra, Silves, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.10424° or 37° 6′ 15″ northLongitude
-8.36273° or 8° 21′ 46″ westPopulation
5,240Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT ARPOpen location code
8C9H4J3P+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 1204295377OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Armação de Pêra” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Armação de Pêra”
- Catalan: “Armação de Pêra”
- Cebuano: “Armação de Pêra”
- Chechen: “Армасан-ди-Пера”
- Chinese: “Armação de Pêra”
- Dutch: “Armacao de Pera”
- Dutch: “Armacão de Pera”
- Dutch: “Armação de Pera”
- Dutch: “Armação de Pêra”
- French: “Armação de Pêra”
- French: “Armanção de Pêra”
- German: “Armação de Pêra”
- Irish: “Armação de Pêra”
- Italian: “Armação de Pêra”
- Kazakh: “Армасан-де-Пера”
- Malay: “Armação de Pêra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Armação de Pêra”
- Portuguese: “Armacao de Pera”
- Portuguese: “Armação de Pera”
- Portuguese: “Armação de Pêra”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Armação de Pera”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Armação de Pêra”
- Russian: “Армасан-де-Пера”
- Russian: “Армасан-ди-Пера”
- Spanish: “Armacao de Pera”
- Spanish: “Armacao de Pêra”
- Spanish: “Armacão de Pera”
- Spanish: “Armacão de Pêra”
- Spanish: “Armaçao de Pera”
- Spanish: “Armaçao de Pêra”
- Spanish: “Armação de Pera”
- Spanish: “Armação de Pêra”
- Tatar: “Армасан-ди-Пера”
- Turkish: “Armação de pêra”
- Turkish: “Armação de Pêra”
- Turkish: “Armação De Pêra”
- “Armação de Pêra”
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