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.
- Type: Town with 1,300 residents
- Description: civil parish in Portimão
- Also known as: “Alvor (freguesia)” and “Freguesia de Alvor”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Castle of Alvor and Portimão Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mexilhoeira Grande.
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Town
Alvor
- 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″ north
Longitude
-8.5929° or 8° 35′ 35″ west
Population
1,300
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
8C9H4CH4+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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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: “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”
- Russian: “Алвор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alvor”
- Spanish: “Alvor”
- Tatar: “Алвор”
- Turkish: “Alvor”
- “Alvor”
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