Iberia
Portugal
Braga District

Amares Municipality

Amares, officially Town of Amares, is a municipality in , Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km2. Amares limits to the north and northeast with the municipality of Terras de Bouro, to the southeast with Vieira do Minho and Póvoa de Lanhoso, to the south with Braga and to the northwest with Vila Verde.
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  • Type: Town with 18,900 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Amares”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pelourinho de Amares and Pillory of Monsul.

Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Manor estate
Photo: Xicodaponte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a manor estate, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Amares Municipality.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ferreiros and Figueiredo.

Village
is a former civil parish of the municipality of Amares in the intermunicipal community Cávado. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish , Prozelo e Besteiros. The population in 2011 was 3,212, in an area of 2.65 km2.

Village
Amares e is a civil parish in the municipality of Amares, , Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Amares and . The population in 2011 was 2,654, in an area of 4.56 km².

Village
Caires is a civil parish in the municipality of Amares, , Portugal. The population in 2011 was 868, in an area of 4.72 km².

Amares Municipality

Latitude
41.631° or 41° 37′ 52″ north
Longitude
-8.3511° or 8° 21′ 4″ west
Population
18,900
Elevation
269 metres (883 feet)
Open location code
8CHHJJJX+9H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25264992
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8010446
Wiki­data ID
Q455012
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Amares Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Amares”
  • Catalan: “Amares”
  • Cebuano: “Amares”
  • Chechen: “Амариш”
  • Chinese: “Amares”
  • Chinese: “阿馬里什”
  • Danish: “Amares”
  • Dutch: “Amares (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Amares”
  • Esperanto: “Amares”
  • Finnish: “Amares”
  • French: “Amares”
  • Galician: “Amares”
  • German: “Amares”
  • Hebrew: “אמארש”
  • Irish: “Amares”
  • Italian: “Amares”
  • Lombard: “Amares”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Amares”
  • Malay: “Amares, Portugal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amares”
  • Mirandese: “Amares”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amares”
  • Norwegian: “Amares”
  • Persian: “شهر امریس”
  • Polish: “Amares”
  • Portuguese: “Amares”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Amares”
  • Russian: “Амареш”
  • Russian: “Амариш”
  • Spanish: “Amares”
  • Tatar: “Амариш”
  • Turkish: “Amares”
  • Ukrainian: “Амареш”
  • Ukrainian: “Амаріш”
  • Vietnamese: “Amares (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Amares”
  • Volapük: “Amares”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amares (munisipyo)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amares Municipality”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amares”
  • “Amares”

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