Pocinho
Pocinho is a village in northern Portugal, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 include Pocinho railway station and Pocinho Dam.
Pocinho railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nuno Morão, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pocinho railway station is located on the Iberian gauge Douro line, which serves the town of Pocinho, in the municipality of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, in northern Portugal.
Pocinho Dam
Industrial building
Pocinho Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Douro, where the river forms the border line between the districts of Guarda and Bragança. It is located in the municipality Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in Guarda District, Portugal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vila Nova de Foz Côa and Torre de Moncorvo.
Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vila Nova de Foz Côa is a town of 7,300 people in Alto Douro wine region of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, northern Portugal. It principal draw for visitors are the sites of prehistoric rock art scattered through the nearby Côa Valley, and the museum in town that serves as a portal for understanding them.
Torre de Moncorvo
Town
Photo: Feliciano Guimarães, CC BY 2.0.
Torre de Moncorvo, officially the Town of Torre de Moncorvo, is a town and municipality in the district of Bragança in northern Portugal. In 2021, the municipality had 6,826 inhabitants, in an area of 531.56 square kilometres, while the town had 2,612 inhabitants. Torre de Moncorvo is situated 7 km northeast of Pocinho.
Urrós
Village
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Urrós is a former parish of the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo, with an area of 57.43 km2 and 265 inhabitants. Urrós is situated 10 km southeast of Pocinho.
Pocinho
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Vila Nova de Foz Côa Municipality, Guarda District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.1311° or 41° 7′ 52″ northLongitude
-7.12043° or 7° 7′ 14″ westElevation
172 metres (564 feet)Open location code
8CHJ4VJH+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 894787944OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Pocinho” goes by many names.
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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 “Pocinho”. Photo: André Marques, CC BY 2.0.