Feiticeiro Dam
Feiticeiro Dam is a dam in Braganza District, Portugal. Feiticeiro Dam is situated nearby to the power station Central Hidroelétrica do Baixo Sabor - Escalão de Jusante, as well as near the peak Santa Cruz.Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torre de Moncorvo and Larinho.
Torre de Moncorvo
Town
Photo: Feliciano Guimarães, CC BY 2.0.
Torre de Moncorvo, officially the Town of Torre de Moncorvo, is a town and municipality in the district of Bragança in northern Portugal. In 2021, the municipality had 6,826 inhabitants, in an area of 531.56 square kilometres, while the town had 2,612 inhabitants. Torre de Moncorvo is situated 4½ km southeast of Feiticeiro Dam.
Larinho
Village
Larinho is a Portuguese parish, referred in Portugal as freguesia, in the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo. It has an area of 29.57 km² and a total of 327 inhabitants as of the 2021 census. Larinho is situated 7 km east of Feiticeiro Dam.
Pocinho
Hamlet
Photo: André Marques, CC BY 2.0.
Pocinho is a village in northern Portugal, located in the Vila Nova de Foz Côa Municipality. The Pocinho Dam and the River Douro are nearby. Pocinho railway station is the eastern terminus of the Douro railway line, so the community developed with the arrival of the railway in 1887. Pocinho is situated 8 km south of Feiticeiro Dam.
Feiticeiro Dam
- Type: Dam
- Also known as: “Barragem do Baixo Sabor - Escalão de Jusante”
- Category: hydroelectric power station
- Location: Braganza District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.20226° or 41° 12′ 8″ northLongitude
-7.09304° or 7° 5′ 35″ westElevation
140 metres (459 feet)Inception
2016Height
45 metres (148 feet)Operator
MovheraOpen location code
8CHJ6W24+WQOpenStreetMap ID
way 244605021OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q97138607
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Feiticeiro Dam” goes by many names.
- French: “barrage du Socier”
- French: “Barrage du Socier”
- Portuguese: “Barragem do Feiticeiro”
- Spanish: “Presa del Hechicero”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Central Hidroelétrica do Baixo Sabor - Escalão de Jusante and Santa Cruz.
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