Faro District
Portimão Municipality
Portimão

Portimão

Portimão is the second biggest city in the , , and famous for its fresh fish restaurants, grilled sardines being the most famous dish. It's very close to one of the most well known beaches in the Algarve, Praia da Rocha, and there are numerous others nearby.
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  • Type: City with 40,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Portimão (Portugal)”, “Portimão Municipality”, and “Vila Nova de Portimão”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio Municipal de Portimão and Ferragudo halt.

Pitch
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is the current stadium of Portimonense S.C. It is located in the centre of Portimão in the , and was opened in 1937 for local football club Portimonense S.C.

Railway station
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Ferragudo is a halt on the Algarve Line in the Lagoa municipality, . It was opened on 15 February 1903, under the name Portimão. After the construction and opening of the Portimão Railway Bridge and , in 1922, the name was changed to Ferragudo.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parchal and Ferragudo.

Town
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is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality of Lagoa, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish . The population in 2011 was 4,019, in an area of 3.86 km2.

Town
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is a civil parish at the western border of the municipality of Lagoa. The population in 2011 was 1,973, in an area of 5.41 km2. serves mainly as a bedroom community for its much larger neighbour, the city of Portimão; its residents routinely travel across the to work in the neighboring municipality.

Portimão

Latitude
37.1376° or 37° 8′ 15″ north
Longitude
-8.5368° or 8° 32′ 13″ west
Population
40,700
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
PRM
United Nations Location Code
PT PRM
Open location code
8C9H4FQ7+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3231647966
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2264456
Wiki­data ID
Q543542
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Portimão” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برتماو”
  • Arabic: “بُرتِماو”
  • Arabic: “بورتيماو”
  • Armenian: “Պորտիման”
  • Asturian: “Portimão”
  • Basque: “Portimão”
  • Belarusian: “Партыман”
  • Catalan: “Portimão”
  • Cebuano: “Portimão (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Portimão”
  • Chechen: “Портиман”
  • Chinese: “Portimão”
  • Chinese: “樸迪莫”
  • Chinese: “波尔蒂芒”
  • Chinese: “波爾蒂芒”
  • Croatian: “Portimão”
  • Czech: “Portimão (Portugal)”
  • Czech: “Portimão”
  • Danish: “Portimão”
  • Dutch: “Portimao (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Portimão”
  • Esperanto: “Portimão”
  • Finnish: “Portimão”
  • French: “Portimão”
  • Galician: “Portimão”
  • Georgian: “პორტიმანი”
  • Georgian: “პორტიმაუ”
  • German: “Portimão (Portugal)”
  • German: “Portimao”
  • German: “Portimão”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Πορτιμάο”
  • Greek: “Πορτιμάο”
  • Hebrew: “פורטימאו”
  • Hungarian: “Portimão”
  • Indonesian: “Portimão”
  • Irish: “Portimão”
  • Italian: “Portimão”
  • Japanese: “ポルティマオ”
  • Japanese: “ポルティマン”
  • Japanese: “ポルティモン”
  • Korean: “포르티망”
  • Ladino: “Portimão”
  • Latin: “Portus Hannibalis”
  • Latvian: “Portimauna”
  • Lithuanian: “Portimaunas”
  • Lombard: “Portimão”
  • Luxembourgish: “Portimão”
  • Malagasy: “Portimão”
  • Malay: “Portimão”
  • Mazanderani: “پرتیمانو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Portimão”
  • Moksha: “Портимау”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portimão”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Portimão”
  • Norwegian: “Portimão”
  • Persian: “پرتیمائو”
  • Persian: “پرتیمانو”
  • Polish: “Portimão”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Portimão”
  • Portuguese: “Portimão”
  • Portuguese: “Vila Nova de Portimão”
  • Romanian: “Portimão”
  • Russian: “Портиман”
  • Russian: “Портима́н”
  • Serbian: “Портимао”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Portimão”
  • Slovak: “Portimão”
  • Slovenian: “Portimão”
  • Spanish: “Portimão”
  • Swedish: “Portimão”
  • Tatar: “Портимау”
  • Turkish: “Portimão”
  • Ukrainian: “Портіман”
  • Ukrainian: “Портімау”
  • Vietnamese: “Portimão”
  • Volapük: “Portimão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portimão Municipality”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portimão”
  • Yue Chinese: “樸迪莫”
  • “Portimão”

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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 “Portimão”. Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.