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Quinta da Comporta. Praia do Pego. Comporta is located on the northwestern coast of the Alentejo, about an hour south of Lisbon.The majority of land in the region is protected from development as a nature preserve, [2] while a significant portion is protected for traditional agricultural uses, such as rice fields and salt ponds.
Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão) is a civil parish in the municipality of Setúbal, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes São Lourenço and São Simão. [ 1 ] The population in 2011 was 18,877, [ 2 ] in an area of 69.32 km 2 . [ 3 ]
Port Autonome de Nantes / St. Nazaire France: Saint-Nazaire: Louis Joubert: 350 50.0 ... Portugal: Setúbal: Dock nº 20 420 75.0 4.6 * [93] Dock nº 21 450
The Atlantic Ocean, as seen from Porto Covo The port of Porto Covo, view from the East. The civil parish of Porto Covo has 48.73 km 2 (18.81 sq mi) of area, and today includes 1400 inhabitants (based on 2008 census). A coastal parish, it is located about 13 km (8.1 mi) south of the municipal seat Sines, but comprises an interior catchment that ...
The islet is located between 500 metres (1,600 ft) and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) off the south-central coast of the island of São Miguel, adjacent the municipality, town, and port of Vila Franca do Campo. [2] [4] [5] The semicircular islet measures approximately 5 hectares (12 acres) [5] or 6 hectares (15 acres) [1] in area.
It is delimited by Lisbon District and Santarém District on the north, Évora District on the east, Beja District on the south and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. It has a population of 887,928 inhabitants, [1] in an area of 5,064 km 2 (1,955 sq mi).
Portugal is a traditional wine grower, and has exported its wines since the dawn of western civilization; Port Wine, Vinho Verde and Madeira Wine are the leading wine exports. Portugal is also a quality producer of fruits, namely the Algarve oranges, cherries (large production in Cova da Beira and Alto Alentejo ), Oeste region's pêra rocha (a ...
Similarly, the site was the supposed way-point on journeys involving Queen Maria II of Portugal and King Pedro V of Portugal and his royal consort, who travelled through the Costa da Caparica on unrelated trips. [4] The territory was part of the parish of Caparica until 1926, before becoming an enclave of Trafaria until 1949. [4]