Avintes
Avintes is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. The population in 2021 was 10,838, in an area of 8.82 km2. It is known in Portugal as "Terra da Broa", meaning "Land of the Broa", referring to the Broa de Avintes, a typical farmhouse bread widely consumed in Northern Portugal, which originated in Avintes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santo Inácio Zoo and Quinta de Baixo.
Observatório Astronómico da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto/Professor Manuel de Barros e respetivas instalações
University
Photo: Ricardo Saraiva de Almeida, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Observatório Astronómico da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto/Professor Manuel de Barros e respetivas instalações is an university.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mafamude and Oliveira do Douro.
Mafamude
Suburb
Photo: Jonik, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Mafamude is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Mafamude e Vilar do Paraíso. Mafamude is situated 4½ km west of Avintes.
Oliveira do Douro
Suburb
Oliveira do Douro is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. The population in 2011 was 22,383, in an area of 7.54 km².
Vilar de Andorinho
Suburb
Vilar de Andorinho is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. The population in 2011 was 18,155, in an area of 7.07 km².
Avintes
- Type: Town with 11,500 residents
- Description: civil parish in Vila Nova de Gaia
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.1054° or 41° 6′ 19″ northLongitude
-8.5507° or 8° 33′ 3″ westPopulation
11,500Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)Open location code
8CHH4C4X+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 3547387403OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
8012931Wikidata ID
Q791051
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Avintes” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Avintes”
- Cebuano: “Avintes (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Avintes”
- Chechen: “Авинтеш”
- Chinese: “Avintes”
- Chinese: “阿温蒂什”
- Dutch: “Avintes”
- French: “Avintes”
- German: “Avintes”
- Irish: “Avintes”
- Kazakh: “Авинтеш”
- Malay: “Avintes”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Avintes”
- Polish: “Avintes”
- Portuguese: “Avintes”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Avintes”
- Russian: “Авинтеш”
- Spanish: “Avintes”
- Tatar: “Авинтеш”
- Turkish: “Avintes”
- Ukrainian: “Авінтеш”
- “Avintes”
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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 “Avintes”. Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY 2.5.