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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Alcántara
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Alcántara City01.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Convent of San Benito de Alcántara (16th century).
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Alcántara.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Cáceres
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Tierra de Alcántara
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Luis Mario Muñoz Nieto
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 552
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 291
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Alcántara
- Demonym
- Alcantareños
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Cáceres Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 1329
- Area
- 552
- Elevation
- 291
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Tagus River
- Shares border with
- Idanha-a-Nova
- Official website
- www.alcantara.es
- Image
- Bridge Alcantara.JPG
- Licence plate code
- CC
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- twinned administrative body
- Igualada
- Commons category
- Alcántara
- postal code
- 10980
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- topic's main category
- Category:Alcántara
- Commons gallery
- Alcántara
- male population
- 736
- female population
- 732
- P8168
- Gallup
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Main sights
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|235px|The Alcántara Bridge.
Alcántara () is a municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, on the Tagus, near Portugal. The toponym is from the Arabic word al-Qanṭarah (القنطرة) meaning "the bridge".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alcántara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (5)
On the map
3 mapped locations