Monchique

Monchique is a spa town in the . Monchique is the main town of the Serra de Monchique, the mountain range that separates the Algarve from and the rest of Portugal to the north.
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  • Type: Town with 2,110 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Monchique Municipality” and “Município de Monchique”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Monchique Town Hall and Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro.

Town hall
Photo: Bextrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Monastery
Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY 2.0.
is a monastery.

Church
Photo: Martin Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Caldas de Monchique.

Hamlet
Photo: Bextrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a in the Monchique Mountains in the region of . is situated 3½ km south of Monchique.

Monchique

Latitude
37.318° or 37° 19′ 5″ north
Longitude
-8.5559° or 8° 33′ 21″ west
Population
2,110
Elevation
639 metres (2,096 feet)
Open location code
8C9H8C9V+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25277578
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8012015
Wiki­data ID
Q957663
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Monchique” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مونشيك”
  • Basque: “Monchique”
  • Catalan: “Monchique”
  • Cebuano: “Monchique (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Monchique”
  • Chechen: “Моншики”
  • Chinese: “蒙希克”
  • Dutch: “Monchique”
  • Esperanto: “Monchique”
  • Finnish: “Monchique”
  • French: “Monchique”
  • German: “Monchique”
  • Irish: “Monchique”
  • Italian: “Monchique”
  • Ladino: “Monchique”
  • Lombard: “Monchique”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Monchique”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Monchique”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monchique”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monchique”
  • Norwegian: “Monchique”
  • Novial: “Monchique”
  • Polish: “Monchique”
  • Portuguese: “Monchique”
  • Russian: “Моншики”
  • Spanish: “Monchique”
  • Tatar: “Моншики”
  • Thai: “มงชีกึ”
  • Turkish: “Monchique”
  • Ukrainian: “Моншике”
  • Vietnamese: “Monchique”
  • Volapük: “Monchique”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monchique”
  • “Monchique”

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