Alvor
Alvor is a town and freguesia in Portimão, in the southern Algarve region of Portugal. It is a holiday base for visiting the Ria de Alvor Nature Reserve, and has a nice beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Juntas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bryan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Alvor and Portimão Airport.
Castle of Alvor
Archaeological site
Photo: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Castle of Alvor is a medieval castle in the civil parish of Alvor, in the Portuguese district of Faro: considered to be a significant military monument associated with the nearby Castle of Silves.
Portimão Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Redalert2fan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Portimão Airport is a small airport in Montes de Alvor, near the city of Portimão in Algarve, Portugal. The airport has one single short asphalt runway in the 11/29 direction and is mainly used by general aviation, with parachuting being common from the airfield.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mexilhoeira Grande.
Mexilhoeira Grande
Town
Photo: Bextrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mexilhoeira Grande is a civil parish in the municipality of Portimão in the southern Portuguese region of the Algarve. The population in 2011 was 4,029, in an area of 91.15 km². Mexilhoeira Grande is situated 4 km northwest of Alvor.
Alvor
- Type: Town with 1,300 residents
- Description: civil parish in Portimão
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Portimão Municipality, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.1291° or 37° 7′ 45″ northLongitude
-8.5929° or 8° 35′ 35″ westPopulation
1,300Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
8C9H4CH4+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 3258699644OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2271782Wikidata ID
Q449552
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Alvor” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Alvor”
- Belarusian: “Алвор”
- Catalan: “Alvor”
- Cebuano: “Alvor”
- Chechen: “Алвор”
- Chinese: “Alvor”
- Chinese: “阿沃爾”
- Danish: “Alvor”
- Dutch: “Alvor”
- Esperanto: “Alvor”
- French: “Alvor”
- Galician: “Alvor”
- German: “Alvor”
- Hebrew: “אלוור”
- Italian: “Alvor”
- Japanese: “アルヴォル”
- Kazakh: “Алвор”
- Malay: “Mukim Alvor”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alvor”
- Polish: “Alvor”
- Portuguese: “Alvor”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Alvor”
- Russian: “Алвор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alvor”
- Spanish: “Alvor”
- Tatar: “Алвор”
- Turkish: “Alvor”
- “Alvor”
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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 “Alvor”. Photo: Bryan, CC BY-SA 3.0.