Amares

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Amares

Elevation269 m

Land area81.95 km²

Coordinates41.63°, -8.35°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Amares, officially Town of Amares, is a municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km2.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Alfonso Sanches

Portuguese troubadour

António Variações

Portuguese singer and songwriter (1944–1984)

Bruno Gama

Portuguese footballer

Gualdim Pais

Portuguese knight (1118-1195)

P

Peixoto Alves

Portuguese bicycle racer

A

Aníbal Capela

Portuguese footballer

J

Jorge Costa Pires

Portuguese footballer

M

Marco André Azevedo Gonçalves

Portuguese footballer

N

Nuno Daniel Costeira Valente

footballer

A

Antônio Poteiro

Portuguese sculptor (1925-2010)

F

Francisco de Campos de Azevedo Soares

Portuguese politician and judge (1818-1901)

F

Fáfila Godins

Portuguese nobleman

José Manuel Fernandes

Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic

L

Loureiro Neto

L

Lourenço Júnior de Castro

Brazilian journalist

Manuel Joaquim Machado Rebelo

Portuguese priest (1834-1930)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Braga

• Milhazes
  18.9 mi away · pop. 912
• Ksar El Hirane
  828.3 mi away
• Brnjavac
  1234.4 mi away · pop. 93
• Malička
  1234.7 mi away · pop. 43
• Podgorje
  1235.7 mi away · pop. 150
• Dugo Selo Lasinjsko
  1237.2 mi away · pop. 46
• Šljivovac
  1237.9 mi away · pop. 32
• Kozarac
  1238.4 mi away
• Staro Selo Topusko
  1239.3 mi away · pop. 154
• Ilovačak
  1239.9 mi away · pop. 42
• Ponikvari
  1240 mi away · pop. 347
• Gornja Trstenica
  1240.7 mi away · pop. 88

Browse all places in Braga →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Amares

Resultados preliminares de uma sondagem na estação arqueológica da Chã do Castro (Amares, Braga)

Susana Oliveira Jorge · 1980

Estamos todos nerviosos

Carlos María Carón · 1983

Caxiuanã

Pedro Luiz Braga Lisboa · 2009

Temas de direito político

Samira Macêdo Pinheiro de Amorim · 2014

Camões

Almeida Garrett · 1825

Autores

Projeto Memória das Organizações Globo (Brazil) · 2008

Made in Brazil

Martha Ulhôa · 2014

Rainhas de Portugal

Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues · 2012

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers