Arouca
Arouca is a village and the seat of the same-named municipality in Douro Litoral. 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.
- Type: Town with 22,400 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Arouca (gemeente)”, “Arouca Municipality”, “Arouca, Portugal”, and “Município de Arouca”
- Neighbors: Santa Maria da Feira
Places of Interest
Highlights: Estádio Municipal de Arouca and Câmara Municipal de Arouca.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Eulália and Freguesia de Burgo.
Arouca
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Aveiro District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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)
UN/LOCODE
PT ARC
Open location code
8CGHWQH4+H8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “阿羅卡”
- 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”
- Kazakh: “Арока (аудан)”
- Kazakh: “Арока”
- 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”
- Russian: “Арока”
- Spanish: “Arouca”
- Swedish: “Arouca”
- Tatar: “Арока”
- Turkish: “Arouca”
- Ukrainian: “Арока”
- Ukrainian: “Ароука”
- Urdu: “اراوکا، پرتگال”
- Vietnamese: “Arouca”
- Volapük: “Arouca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Arouca”
- “Arouca”
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