Alcains
Alcains is a civil parish in the municipality of Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 4,615, in an area of 36.94 km². Alcains is located within the urban agglomeration of Castelo Branco - Covilhã - Guarda, situated 12 km to the north…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alcains vision, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alcains train station.
Alcains train station
Railway station
Photo: Nuno Morão, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alcains train station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Freguesia de Lousa and Lardosa.
Lardosa
Village
Photo: Antero Pires, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lardosa is a village, which is situated 8 km north of Alcains.
Alcains
- Type: Town with 4,480 residents
- Description: civil parish in Castelo Branco
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal, third-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Alcains, Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
39.91514° or 39° 54′ 55″ northLongitude
-7.46147° or 7° 27′ 41″ westPopulation
4,480Elevation
369 metres (1,211 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT ALSOpen location code
8CFJWG8Q+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 385254174OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Alcains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكنيسة (البرتغال)”
- Arabic: “الكنيسة”
- Asturian: “Alcains”
- Basque: “Alcains”
- Belarusian: “Алкайнш”
- Catalan: “Alcains”
- Cebuano: “Alcains”
- Chechen: “Алкайнш”
- Chinese: “Alcains”
- Czech: “Alcains”
- Danish: “Alcains”
- Dutch: “Alcains”
- French: “Alcains”
- Galician: “Alcains”
- German: “Alcains”
- Greek: “Αλκάινς”
- Irish: “Alcains”
- Italian: “Alcains”
- Kazakh: “Alkaýnş”
- Kazakh: “Алкайнш”
- Kazakh: “الكاينش”
- Latin: “Alcains”
- Malay: “Alcains”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alcains”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alcains”
- Norwegian: “Alcains”
- Portuguese: “Alcains”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Alcains”
- Russian: “Алкайнш”
- Spanish: “Alcains”
- Swedish: “Alcains”
- Tatar: “Алкайнш”
- Turkish: “Alcains”
- Ukrainian: “Алкайнш”
- “Alcains”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Alcains”. Photo: Alcains vision, Public domain.