Alijó
Alijó is a town and municipality in the Alto Douro wine region of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, northern Portugal. This area is the centre of the oldest demarcated wine region in the world: the Alto Douro Wine Region, classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Laszlo Daroczy, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 11,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Alijó Municipality”
- Neighbors: Carrazeda de Ansiães, Sabrosa, and São João da Pesqueira
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pelourinho de Alijó and Câmara Municipal de Alijó.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Favaios and Sanfins do Douro.
Favaios
Town
Photo: C goulao, Public domain.
Favaios is a civil parish of the municipality of Alijó, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,064, in an area of 21.45 km2. The region is known for its wines, namely, the moscatels like Moscatel de Favaios.
Sanfins do Douro
Town
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sanfins do Douro is a town, which is situated 4 km northwest of Alijó.
Alijó
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Vila Real District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.2769° or 41° 16′ 37″ northLongitude
-7.4754° or 7° 28′ 31″ westPopulation
11,900Elevation
610 metres (2,001 feet)Open location code
8CHJ7GGF+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 25278433OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2743067Wikidata ID
Q712064
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Alijó” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ալիժո”
- Basque: “Alijó”
- Belarusian: “Аліжа”
- Catalan: “Alijó”
- Cebuano: “Alijó (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Alijó”
- Chechen: “Алижо”
- Chinese: “Alijó”
- Chinese: “阿利若”
- Danish: “Alijó”
- Dutch: “Alijo (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Alijó”
- Esperanto: “Alijó”
- Finnish: “Alijo”
- Finnish: “Alijó”
- French: “Alijo”
- French: “Alijó”
- German: “Alijó”
- Irish: “Alijó”
- Italian: “Alijó”
- Kazakh: “Alïjo”
- Kazakh: “Алижо”
- Kazakh: “الىيجو”
- Lombard: “Alijó”
- Luxembourgish: “Alijó”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Alijó”
- Malay: “Alijó”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alijó”
- Mirandese: “Alijó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alijó”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alijó”
- Polish: “Alijo”
- Polish: “Alijó”
- Portuguese: “Alijó”
- Portuguese: “Município de Alijó”
- Russian: “Алижо”
- Spanish: “Alijo”
- Spanish: “Alijó”
- Tatar: “Алижо”
- Turkish: “Alijo”
- Turkish: “Alijó”
- Ukrainian: “Аліжо”
- Vietnamese: “Alijó”
- Volapük: “Alijó”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alijó”
- “Alijó”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Alijó”. Photo: Laszlo Daroczy, CC BY 2.0.