Pocinho

Pocinho is a village in northern , located in the Vila Nova de Foz Côa Municipality. The Pocinho Dam and the River Douro are nearby. Pocinho railway station is the eastern terminus of the Douro railway line, so the community developed with the arrival of the railway in 1887.
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Photo: André Marques, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: village in Vila Nova de Foz Côa
  • Also known as: “Posinho”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Pocinho railway station and Pocinho Dam.

Railway station
Photo: Nuno Morão, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is located on the Iberian…

Industrial building
Photo: Pedro, CC BY 2.0.
is a concrete gravity dam on the …

Farm
Photo: Gerry Labrijn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a farm, which is situated 2½ km north of Pocinho.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vila Nova de Foz Côa and Torre de Moncorvo.

Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town of 7,300 people in Alto…

Town
Photo: Feliciano Guimarães, CC BY 2.0.
, officially the Town of Torre… is situated 7 km northeast of Pocinho.

Village
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a former parish of the municipality… is situated 10 km southeast of Pocinho.

Pocinho

Latitude
41.1311° or 41° 7′ 52″ north
Longitude
-7.12043° or 7° 7′ 14″ west
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
Open location code
8CHJ4VJH+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 894787944
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
2736144
Wiki­data ID
Q922085
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Pocinho” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Pocinho”
  • Dutch: “Pocinho”
  • French: “Pocinho”
  • Galician: “Pocinho”
  • German: “Pocinho”
  • Italian: “Pocinho”
  • Portuguese: “Pocinho”
  • Spanish: “Pocinho”

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Highlights: Centro de alto rendimento de remo Pocinho and Centro de Alto Rendimento de Remo do Pocinho.

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