Melgaço Municipality

Melgaço, officially the Town of Melgaço, is a municipality in the district of in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,213, in an area of 238.25 km2.
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  • Type: Town with 1,560 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Melgaco”, “Melgaço”, “Melgaço (munisipyo)”, “Melgaco (Portugal)”, “Melgaço, Portugal”, “Município de Melgaço”, “Vila de Melgaço”, and “メルガソ”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Castle of Melgaço and Frontier Memory Museum.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
The is located in Vila parish…

Museum
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Heritage site
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is a heritage site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paderne and Chaviães.

Village
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is a parish, located in the municipality of Melgaço.

Village
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is a former civil parish in the municipality…

Village
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a parish, located in the municipality of Melgaço.

Melgaço Municipality

Latitude
42.113° or 42° 6′ 47″ north
Longitude
-8.2593° or 8° 15′ 34″ west
Population
1,560
Elevation
566 metres (1,857 feet)
Open location code
8CJH4P7R+67
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25278426
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8010629
Wiki­data ID
Q491888
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Melgaço Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Melgaço”
  • Catalan: “Melgaço”
  • Cebuano: “Melgaço”
  • Chechen: “Мелгасу”
  • Chinese: “梅尔加苏”
  • Chinese: “梅爾加蘇”
  • Dutch: “Melgaço”
  • Esperanto: “Melgaço”
  • French: “Melgaço”
  • Galician: “Melgaço”
  • German: “Melgaço”
  • Irish: “Melgaço”
  • Italian: “Melgaço”
  • Japanese: “メルガーソ”
  • Lombard: “Melgaço (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Melgaço”
  • Malay: “Melgaço, Portugal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melgaço”
  • Mirandese: “Melgaço”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melgaço”
  • Polish: “Melgaço”
  • Portuguese: “Melgaço”
  • Russian: “Мелгасу”
  • Spanish: “Melgaço”
  • Spanish: “Melgazo”
  • Tatar: “Мелгасу”
  • Turkish: “Melgaço”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелгасу”
  • Vietnamese: “Melgaço, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Volapük: “Melgaço”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melgaço, Portugal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melgaço”
  • “Melgaço”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Galvão and Senhora da Oliveira.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Câmara Municipal de Melgaço and Tribunal da Comarca de Melgaço.

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Worth a closer look: Lisbon and Caldas da Rainha.

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