Terroso
Terroso is a suburban area in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It forms part of the civil parish of Aver-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso. It is an ancient ecclesiastical parish and former civil parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,530 residents
- Description: civil parish in Portugal
- Also known as: “Freguesia de Terroso”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cividade de Terroso and Cividade Hill.
Cividade de Terroso
Archaeological site
Cividade de Terroso was an ancient city of the Castro culture in North-western coast of the Iberian Peninsula, situated near the present bed of the Ave river, in the suburbs of present-day Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Cividade Hill
Peak
Cividade Hill or Cividade de Terroso Hill with an elevation of 153 metres is one of the two hills next to the city of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal. Cividade Hill's most notable feature is Cividade de Terroso in the hilltop.
São Félix Hill
Peak
Photo: PedroPVZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
São Félix Hill or Mount São Félix, Monte de São Félix in Portuguese, is the highest hill in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, as measured by the height above sea level of its summit, 202 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amorim and Beiriz.
Amorim
Village
Amorim is a suburban area in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is an ancient ecclesiastical parish and former civil parish. It is bordered by Aver-o-Mar to the west and by Terroso to the east.
Beiriz
Suburb
Beiriz is a suburban area in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is an ancient ecclesiastical parish and former civil parish. In the census of 2001, it had a population of 3,229 inhabitants and a total area of 4.31 km2. Beiriz is situated 2½ km south of Terroso.
Laundos
Village
Photo: PedroPVZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Laundos or Laúndos is one of the seven civil parishes of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 2,055, in an area of 8.53 km2. The name was first documented in 1033 as Montis Lanutus referring to São Félix Hill. Laundos is situated 2½ km north of Terroso.
Terroso
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal, freguesia of Portugal, and locality
- Location: AVer-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso, Póvoa de Varzim, Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.41513° or 41° 24′ 55″ northLongitude
-8.7278° or 8° 43′ 40″ westPopulation
2,530Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT TRSOpen location code
8CHHC78C+3VOpenStreetMap ID
node 3004522617OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Terroso” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Terroso”
- Cebuano: “Terroso (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Terroso”
- Chechen: “Террозу”
- Chinese: “Terroso”
- Chinese: “特罗苏”
- Dutch: “Terroso”
- French: “Freguesia de Terroso”
- Galician: “Terroso”
- German: “Freguesia de Terroso”
- German: “Terroso”
- Kazakh: “Террозу”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Terroso”
- Portuguese: “Terroso (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “Terroso”
- Russian: “Террозу”
- Spanish: “Freguesia de Terroso”
- Spanish: “Terroso (Póvoa de Varzim)”
- Spanish: “Terroso”
- Tatar: “Террозу”
- Turkish: “Terroso”
- “Freguesia de Terroso”
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