Figueira da Foz

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Figueira da Foz

Total population

30,012

Coordinates40.15°, -8.86°

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

Overview

Figueira da Foz, officially the City of Figueira da Foz, often called simply Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, 40 km (25 mi) west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills, sharing about the same latitude with Philadelphia, Baku and Beijing. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 62,125, in an area of 379.05 km2 (146.35 sq mi). The city of Figueira da Foz proper has a population of 46,600. It is the second largest city in the district of Coimbra.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Hugo Almeida

Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1984)

Afonso Cruz

Portuguese musician

Alves Barbosa

Portuguese road bicycle racer (1931–2018)

Ticha Penicheiro

Portuguese basketball player

António dos Santos Rocha

Portuguese archaeologist and prehistorian

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Carlos Galvão de Melo

Portuguese military officer (1921-2008)

David de Sousa

Portuguese composer (1880–1918)

José Bento Pessoa

Portuguese bicycle racer

Jorge Pelicano

Portuguese screenwriter and cinematographer

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Eduardo Nery

Portuguese writer and painter (1938-2013)

J

João Mário Grilo

Portuguese filmmaker

João Gaspar Simões

Portuguese writer and literary critic (1903-1987)

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Gonçalo Cadilhe

Portuguese journalist

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Isa Cardoso

Portuguese singer

Judah Leon Templo

German rabbi (1602-1675)

Joaquim de Carvalho

Portuguese philosopher (1892-1958)

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

Nearby places in Coimbra

• São Pedro
  1.4 mi away · pop. 2,588
• Abrunheira
  7.1 mi away
• Vila Nova da Barca
  8.9 mi away
• Seixo de Gatões
  10.9 mi away
• Gesteira
  11.5 mi away
• Granja do Ulmeiro
  11.8 mi away
• Soure
  13.6 mi away · pop. 2,037
• Pereira
  14.5 mi away
• São Martinho de Árvore
  16.3 mi away
• Ameal
  16.6 mi away
• Outil
  17.9 mi away
• Condeixa-a-Nova
  19 mi away

Browse all places in Coimbra →

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 Figueira da Foz

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers