Alcantarilha
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,310 residents
- Description: civil parish in Portugal
- Also known as: “Freguesia de Alcantarilha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Casa da Coroa and Beijinhos beach.
Beijinhos beach
Beach
Photo: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Beijinhos beach is situated 4 km southwest of Alcantarilha.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Armação de Pêra and Guia.
Armação de Pêra
Town
Photo: Tanchapt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. Armação de Pêra is situated 3 km southwest of Alcantarilha.
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 4½ km east of Alcantarilha.
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 4½ km west of Alcantarilha.
Alcantarilha
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal, freguesia of Portugal, and locality
- Location: Alcantarilha e Pêra, Silves, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.13008° or 37° 7′ 48″ northLongitude
-8.34786° or 8° 20′ 52″ westPopulation
1,310Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT ATHOpen location code
8C9H4MJ2+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1069590029OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Alcantarilha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القنطرية (شلب)”
- Arabic: “القنطرية”
- Asturian: “Alcantarilha”
- Catalan: “Alcantarilha”
- Cebuano: “Alcantarilha”
- Chechen: “Алкантарилья”
- Chinese: “Alcantarilha”
- Dutch: “Alcantarilha”
- French: “Freguesia de Alcantarilha”
- Galician: “Alcantarilha”
- German: “Alcantarilha”
- German: “Freguesia de Alcantarilha”
- Irish: “Alcantarilha”
- Kazakh: “Alkantarïlʹya”
- Kazakh: “Алкантарилья”
- Kazakh: “الكانتارىيليا”
- Malay: “Alcantarilha”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alcantarilha”
- Portuguese: “Alcantarilha (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “Alcantarilha”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Alcantarilha”
- Russian: “Алкантарилья”
- Spanish: “Alcantarilha”
- Spanish: “Alcantarilla (Portugal)”
- Spanish: “Alcantarilla”
- Spanish: “Freguesia de Alcantarilha”
- Tatar: “Алкантарилья”
- Turkish: “Alcantarilha”
- “Freguesia de Alcantarilha”
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