Alenquer
Alenquer, officially the Town of Alenquer, is a Portuguese municipality in the historical Estremadura province, in the Lisbon District and in the Oeste region.- Type: Town with 43,300 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Alenquer (Portugal)”, “Alenquer Municipality”, “Alenquer, Portugal”, and “Município de Alenquer”
- Neighbors: Arruda dos Vinhos, Cadaval, Sobral de Monte Agraço, Torres Vedras, and Vila Franca de Xira
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fábrica Nova da Romeira and Castle of Alenquer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meca.
Meca
Village
Meca is a parish of the municipality of Alenquer, in western Portugal. Meca is situated 4½ km northwest of Alenquer.
Alenquer
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.0566° or 39° 3′ 24″ north
Longitude
-9.0076° or 9° 0′ 27″ west
Population
43,300
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
Open location code
8CFG3X4R+MX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Alenquer” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Alenquer, Portugal”
- Basque: “Alenquer”
- Bishnupriya: “আলএনকুয়ের”
- Catalan: “Alenquer”
- Cebuano: “Alenquer”
- Chechen: “Аленкер”
- Chinese: “阿倫克爾”
- Czech: “Alenquer”
- Dutch: “Alenquer”
- Esperanto: “Alenquer”
- French: “Alenquer”
- Galician: “Alenquer”
- German: “Alenquer”
- Hebrew: “אלנקר”
- Irish: “Alenquer”
- Italian: “Alenquer”
- Japanese: “アレンケル”
- Korean: “알렝케르”
- Lithuanian: “Alenkeras”
- Lombard: “Alenquer (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Alenquer”
- Malay: “Perbandaran Alenquer, Portugal”
- Malay: “Perbandaran Alenquer”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alenquer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alenquer”
- Novial: “Alenquer, Portugal”
- Ossetian: “Аленкер”
- Persian: “شهر النکویر، پرتقال”
- Persian: “شهر النکویر”
- Polish: “Alenquer”
- Portuguese: “Alenquer”
- Russian: “Аленкер”
- Slovenian: “Alenquer”
- Spanish: “Alenquer”
- Tatar: “Аленкер”
- Turkish: “Alenquer, Portekiz”
- Turkish: “Alenquer”
- Ukrainian: “Аленкер”
- Vietnamese: “Alenquer, Bồ Đào Nha”
- Volapük: “Alenquer”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alenquer”
- “Alenquer”
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Places to explore: Alto da Boavista and Paredes.
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