Armação de Pêra

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Armação de Pêra

Total population

5,238

Elevation8 m

Land area9.15 km²

Coordinates37.10°, -8.36°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Armação de Pêra is a town (vila) and Portuguese parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Silves. The population in 2011 was 4,867, in an area of 7.99 km2. The village used to be called Pêra de Baixo or Lower Pêra to distinguish it from the present Pêra, which was then named Pêra de Cima or Upper Pêra.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira

Governor of Macau (1939–2025)

F

Fernando Cabrita

Portuguese football player/manager (1923-2014)

Remexido

Portuguese guerilla leader

J

Joaquim Manuel Cabrita Neto

Portuguese politician

J

João António Mascarenhas Júdice

Portuguese historian (1898-1957)

João Bentes Castel-Branco

Portuguese writer (1850-1940)

T

Teófilo da Trindade

military leader, Portugal

J

Joaquim Piscarreta

politician

Ataíde Oliveira

Portuguese writer (1842-1915)

João Ortigão Peres

A

Américo da Silva Batista

J

José Manuel Semedo Azevedo

Portuguese historian

E

Eugénio Dionísio de Mascarenhas Grade

Portuguese magistrate and politician

S

Sérgio Nunes

Portuguese singer

R

Ramiro Laranjo

Portuguese architect (1923-2009)

J

José Rita Seixas

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

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• Querença
  21.7 mi away · pop. 35
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  22 mi away · pop. 283
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Geography & sun

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

Public attention

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