Arouca

Arouca is a village and the seat of the same-named municipality in . Visitors come to walk on the longest suspended pedestrian bridge in the world, which stretches 516 m across the Arouca Geopark, 175 m above the River Paiva.
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Photo: Pedro, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Town with 22,400 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Arouca, Portugal”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio Municipal de Arouca and Câmara Municipal de Arouca.

Sports venue
Photo: JP Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an association football located in Arouca, Portugal, which is used by F.C. Arouca as their home ground. Owned by the local municipality, it was built in 2006 while Arouca were still playing in the Aveiro regional leagues.

Town hall
Photo: Lídia Maria Faria, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town hall.

Photo: Pedro, CC BY 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Eulália and Freguesia de Burgo.

Village
Photo: Carlospinhoarouca, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Village
Photo: RSAlmeida, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Village
Photo: Carlospinhoarouca, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Arouca.

Arouca

Latitude
40.9289° or 40° 55′ 44″ north
Longitude
-8.2442° or 8° 14′ 39″ west
Population
22,400
Elevation
313 metres (1,027 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT ARC
Open location code
8CGHWQH4+H8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1207711237
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2742700
Wiki­data ID
Q565302
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Satellite Map

Discover Arouca from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Waray—“Arouca” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Արոկա”
  • Basque: “Arouca”
  • Belarusian: “Арока”
  • Catalan: “Arouca”
  • Cebuano: “Arouca”
  • Chechen: “Арока”
  • Chinese: “Arouca”
  • Chinese: “阿羅卡”
  • Dutch: “Arouca (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Arouca”
  • Esperanto: “Arouca”
  • Finnish: “Arouca”
  • French: “Arouca”
  • Galician: “Arouca”
  • German: “Arouca”
  • Greek: “Αρούκα”
  • Indonesian: “Arouca”
  • Irish: “Arouca”
  • Italian: “Arouca”
  • Japanese: “アロウカ”
  • Korean: “아로카”
  • Lithuanian: “Aroka”
  • Lombard: “Arouca”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arouca”
  • Macedonian: “Арука”
  • Malay: “Arouca, Portugal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arouca”
  • Mirandese: “Arouca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arouca”
  • Polish: “Arouca”
  • Portuguese: “Arouca”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Arouca”
  • Russian: “Арока”
  • Spanish: “Arouca”
  • Swedish: “Arouca”
  • Tatar: “Арока”
  • Turkish: “Arouca”
  • Ukrainian: “Арока”
  • Ukrainian: “Ароука”
  • Urdu: “اراوکا، پرتگال”
  • Vietnamese: “Arouca”
  • Volapük: “Arouca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arouca Municipality”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arouca”
  • “Arouca”

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