Parchal
Sign in to saveParchal is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Lagoa, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Estômbar e Parchal. The population in 2011 was 4,019, in an area of 3.86 km2. It is situated in the northwest part of the Lagoa Municipality.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-par1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Parchal
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- LGA-parchal.PNG
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Algarve
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Algarve
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Faro
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Lagoa
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 3.86
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 4019
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.dissolved
- 2013
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 8400
- Portuguese subdivision.website
- http://www.jf-parchal.pt
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Parchal is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Lagoa, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Estômbar e Parchal. The population in 2011 was 4,019, in an area of 3.86 km2. It is situated in the northwest part of the Lagoa Municipality.
Parchal serves mainly as a bedroom community for Portimão, and many of its residents travel daily across the Rio Arade to work in the neighboring municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parchal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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