Monchique
Monchique is a spa town in the Algarve. Monchique is the main town of the Serra de Monchique, the mountain range that separates the Algarve from Alentejo and the rest of Portugal to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monchique Town Hall and Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro.
Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro
Monastery
Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY 2.0.
Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro is a monastery.
Igreja matriz de Monchique
Church
Photo: Martin Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Igreja matriz de Monchique is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caldas de Monchique.
Caldas de Monchique
Hamlet
Photo: Bextrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caldas de Monchique is a spa town in the Monchique Mountains in the Algarve region of Portugal. It has been famous since Roman times for its waters, which supposedly have healing properties. Caldas de Monchique is situated 3½ km south of Monchique.
Monchique
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.318° or 37° 19′ 5″ northLongitude
-8.5559° or 8° 33′ 21″ westPopulation
2,110Elevation
639 metres (2,096 feet)Open location code
8C9H8C9V+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 25277578OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
8012015Wikidata ID
Q957663
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Satellite Map
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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: “Monchique”
- 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”
- Polish: “Monchique”
- Portuguese: “Monchique”
- Portuguese: “Município de 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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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 “Monchique”. Photo: Jose A., CC BY 2.0.