Portugal, One Of The Best Destinations In Europe

Country on the south-western Europe. Located onOn the south part of the Tejo river the terrain is
the west part of the Iberian Peninsula, Portugalformed by rolling plains, with low altitude, where the
occupies an area of 92,152 km2. It is bordered byplains prevail. The highest mountains are located on
Spain on the east and north and by the Atlanticthe north of the Tejo river, and the most importants
Ocean on the west and south.The Portugueseare Serra da Estrela (1991 m), Serra do Gerês
territory is divided in three parts: the mainland, the(1508 m), Serra do Marão (1416 m), Serra do
autonomous region of Madeira and Azores whichMontemuro (1381 m) and Serra do Caramulo (1075
have their own administration.m). On the south of the Tejo river, the most
The mainland is divided into 18 administrative district :important mountains are Serra de São Mamede
Viana do Castelo, Vila Real, Bragança, Braga,(1025 m), Serra do Monchique (902 m) and Serra do
Porto, Aveiro, Viseu, Guarda, Coimbra, CasteloCaldeirão (577 m).
Branco, Leiria, Santarém, Portalegre, Lisbon,The rest of the Portuguese terrain is the coastline,
Setúbal, Évora, Beja and Faro; thewhich can be divided in three big set of plains: the
districts are divided into municipalities (311), which areBeira Litoral Plain formed by the alluvial plains of
subdivided into civil parishes.Vouga and Mondego, the Algarve Plain and the alluvial
The autonomous region of Azores is an archipelagoPlain of Tejo and Sado. The archipelagos of Azores
of 9 islands, divided in three groups: the western, theand Madeira have theirs origins on volcanic activities
central and the eastern. The islands of Flores andand theirs terrains are very rough.
Corvo are part of the western group, the islands ofThe coastline of Azores has a lot of cliffs and inside
S. Jorge, Terceira, Faial and Pico are part of thethe islands the terrain is very mountainous. The
central group and the islands of S. Miguel and Santahighest mountain in Portugal is located inside the Pico
Maria are part of eastern group. The autonomousisland and it has 2351 meters. One characteristic of
region of Madeira is an archipelago formed by theMadeira is that it has high mountains on the central
island of Madeira and Porto Santo.part of the island.
The capital of Portugal is Lisbon. Other cities of moreThe most important rivers are, from north to south
importance are Porto, Coimbra, Setúbal, Aveiro,of the mainland, the Minho, the Douro, the Tejo and
Braga and Faro. The Portuguese terrain has severalthe Guadiana all they rising in Spain and flowing to the
different forms. On the north of the Tejo river, it isAtlantic Ocean. Among the rivers whose course is
very rough, with mountains, except the coast plain,Portuguese only, we have the Cávado, the
and with an average height above 400 meters.Vouga, the Mondego, the Sado end Mira.
These mountains are crossed by valleys and rivers.