Mondego River
The Mondego River, also known as Mondego, is the longest river entirely within Portuguese territory. It has its source in Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal.Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Portugal
- Also known as: “Mondego” and “Rio Mondego”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Santa Catarina and Casino Figueira.
Fort Santa Catarina
Ruins
Fort Santa Catarina of Figueira da Foz is located in the parish of Buarcos, in the city and municipality of Figueira da Foz, district of Coimbra, in Portugal.
Tribunal Judicial da Figueira da Foz
Courthouse
Photo: Threeohsix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tribunal Judicial da Figueira da Foz is a courthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Figueira da Foz and São Pedro.
Figueira da Foz
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Figueira da Foz is a seaside resort on the Beira Litoral in Central Portugal, situated at the mouth of the Mondego River west of Coimbra. It boasts a long waterfront promenade, Europe's widest urban beach and one of Portugal's few casinos.
Buarcos
Village
Photo: 69joehawkins, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buarcos is a freguesia in Figueira da Foz Municipality, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,454, in an area of 15.53 km². During the 1600s, the people of Buarcos were harassed by pirates and built the long fortification that stands to this day.
Mondego River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Coimbra District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mondego River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر منديق”
- Aragonese: “Río Mondego”
- Armenian: “Մոնդեգու”
- Asturian: “Ríu Mondego”
- Basque: “Mondego ibaia”
- Basque: “Mondego”
- Belarusian: “Мандэгу”
- Breton: “Mondego”
- Bulgarian: “Мондегу”
- Catalan: “Mondego”
- Cebuano: “Rio Mondego (suba sa Portugal)”
- Cebuano: “Rio Mondego”
- Chinese: “蒙德古河”
- Czech: “Mondego”
- Dutch: “Mondego”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر مونديجو”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Mondego”
- Finnish: “Mondego”
- French: “Mondego”
- Galician: “Río Mondego”
- Georgian: “მონდეგუ”
- German: “Mondego”
- Hungarian: “Mondego”
- Irish: “Abhainn Mondego”
- Italian: “Mondego”
- Japanese: “モンデゴ川”
- Kazakh: “Мондегу”
- Korean: “몬데구강”
- Latvian: “Mondegu”
- Lithuanian: “Mondegas”
- Low German: “Mondego”
- Mirandese: “Riu Mundego”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mondego”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mondego”
- Norwegian: “Mondego”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mondego”
- Polish: “Mondego”
- Portuguese: “Mondego”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mondego”
- Russian: “Мондегу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mondego”
- Slovenian: “Mondego (reka)”
- Slovenian: “Mondego”
- Spanish: “Mondego”
- Spanish: “Río Mondego”
- Swedish: “Mondego”
- Turkish: “Mondego Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Мондегу”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mondego”
- Welsh: “Afon Mondego”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Casal do Rato and Praia.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Praia do Forte de Santa Catarina and Fort of Santa Catarina.
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