Praia da Vitória
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municipality in Portugal
Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Auton region
- Azores
- Island
- Terceira
- Established
- Settlement: fl. 1400, Municipality: c. 1480
- President
- Tibério Dinis
- Total
- 161.27 km (62.27 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 27 m (89 ft)
- Density
- 130.43/km (337.82/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−01:00 (AZOT)
- Summer dst
- UTC+00:00 (AZOST)
- Postal code
- 9760-851
- Patron
- Santa Cruz
- Local holiday
- 11 August
- Website
- http://www.cmpv.pt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Azores
- Contains
- Vila Nova
- Population
- 21035
- Area
- 161.27
- Shares border with
- Angra do Heroísmo
- Official website
- www.cmpv.pt
- Image
- Câmara Municipal da Praia da Vitória 07.jpg
- Dialing code
- 292
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- Commons category
- Praia da Vitória
- topic's main category
- Category:Praia da Vitória
- postal code
- 9760
- P8168
- book building
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Encyclopedic overview
Praia da Vitória, officially the Very Notable City of Praia da Vitória, is a municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. With a population of 21,035 (in 2011), the second largest administrative authority on the island of Terceira, it covers an area of 162.29 square kilometres (62.66 mi), that extends from the northern coast halfway into the interior.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Praia da Vitória” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.