Meca
Meca is a parish of the municipality of Alenquer, in western Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,719, in an area of 14.12 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Igreja de Santa Quitéria and Castle of Alenquer.
Igreja de Santa Quitéria
Church
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Igreja de Santa Quitéria is a church.
Castle of Alenquer
Castle
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.
The Castle of Alenquer, is a Portuguese medieval castle in civil parish of Alenquer, in the municipality of Alenquer, in the district of Lisbon. Castle of Alenquer is situated 4 km southeast of Meca.
Câmara Municipal de Alenquer
Town hall
Photo: Jsobral, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Câmara Municipal de Alenquer is a town hall, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Meca.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Olhalvo and Ota.
Olhalvo
Village
Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Olhalvo is a parish of the municipality of Alenquer, in western Portugal. Its population in 2011 was 1,907. Olhalvo has an area of 8.30 km².
Ota
Village
Photo: CorreiaPM, Public domain.
Ota is a Portuguese freguesia, located in the municipality of Alenquer. The population in 2011 was 1289, in an area of 46.32 km2. Ota is situated 4½ km northeast of Meca.
Carnota
Village
Carnota is a parish of the municipality of Alenquer, in western Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,678, in an area of 18.09 km². Carnota is situated 6 km southwest of Meca.
Meca
- Type: Village with 1,620 residents
- Description: civil parish in Alenquer
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Alenquer, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
39.0884° or 39° 5′ 18″ northLongitude
-9.035° or 9° 2′ 6″ westPopulation
1,620Elevation
176 metres (577 feet)Open location code
8CFG3XQ8+92OpenStreetMap ID
node 4359786178OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8012429Wikidata ID
Q1452082
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Meca” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Meca”
- Cebuano: “Meca (parokya sa Portugal)”
- Cebuano: “Meca”
- Chechen: “Мека”
- Chinese: “Meca”
- Dutch: “Meca”
- French: “Meca”
- German: “Meca”
- Kazakh: “Мека”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meca”
- Portuguese: “Meca (Alenquer)”
- Portuguese: “Meca”
- Russian: “Мека”
- Spanish: “Meca”
- Tatar: “Мека”
- Turkish: “Meca”
- Turkish: “Meda”
- Ukrainian: “Мека”
- “Meca”
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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 “Meca”. Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY 2.0.