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Viana do Castelo District

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 9,210 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Melgaco”, “Melgaço”, “Melgaço, Portugal”, and “Vila de Melgaço”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of Melgaço and Casa da Quinta da Calçada.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
The is located in Vila parish, Melgaço municipality, Viana do Castelo district, in Portugal. As the main defense of the crossing of the Alto Minho river to Galicia, it constitutes the most northern sentry point in Portugal from the twelfth century.

Heritage site
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is a heritage site.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chaviães and Paderne.

Village
is a former civil parish in the municipality of Melgaço in the , Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish e Paços. It has a population of 431 inhabitants and a total area of 4.47 km2.

Village
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is a parish, located in the municipality of Melgaço. The population in 2011 was 1,160, in an area of 12.85 km2.

Village
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is a parish, located in the municipality of Melgaço. The population in 2011 was 602, in an area of 9.95 km2.

Melgaço Municipality

Latitude
42.113° or 42° 6′ 47″ north
Longitude
-8.2593° or 8° 15′ 34″ west
Population
9,210
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: “Melgaço”
  • Chinese: “梅尔加苏”
  • Chinese: “梅爾加蘇”
  • Dutch: “Melgaco (Portugal)”
  • Dutch: “Melgaço”
  • Esperanto: “Melgaço”
  • French: “Melgaco”
  • French: “Melgaço”
  • Galician: “Melgaço”
  • German: “Melgaço”
  • Irish: “Melgaço”
  • Italian: “Melgaço”
  • Japanese: “メルガーソ”
  • Japanese: “メルガソ”
  • Lombard: “Melgaço (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Melgaço”
  • Malay: “Melgaço, Portugal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melgaço”
  • Mirandese: “Melgaço”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melgaço”
  • Polish: “Melgaco”
  • Polish: “Melgaço”
  • Portuguese: “Melgaço”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Melgaço”
  • Russian: “Мелгасу”
  • Spanish: “Melgaco”
  • Spanish: “Melgaço”
  • Spanish: “Melgazo”
  • Tatar: “Мелгасу”
  • Turkish: “Melgaço”
  • Ukrainian: “Мелгасу”
  • Vietnamese: “Melgaço, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Volapük: “Melgaço”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melgaço (munisipyo)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melgaço Municipality”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melgaço, Portugal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melgaço”
  • “Melgaço”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Igreja da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Melgaço and Tribunal da Comarca de Melgaço.

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