Sagres | |
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Coordinates: 37°00′36″N 8°56′20″W / 37.010°N 8.939°W | |
Country | Portugal |
Region | Algarve |
Intermunic. comm. | Algarve |
District | Faro |
Municipality | Vila do Bispo |
Area | |
• Total | 34.37 km2 (13.27 sq mi) |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 1,894 |
Time zone | UTC±00:00 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
Postal code | 8650 |
Area code | 282 |
Website | www |
Sagres is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, in the southern Algarve of Portugal. It has 1,894 inhabitants (2021)[1] in an area of 34.37 square kilometres (13.27 sq mi).[2] It is historically connected to the early Portuguese Age of Discovery.
Sagres is near the Western end of the world's longest estimated straight-line path over land, at 11,241 km, ending near Jinjiang in the People's Republic of China.[3]