Monchique is a ''
freguesia
(), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese over ...
'' (parish) in
Monchique Municipality (
Algarve
The Algarve (, , ) is the southernmost NUTS statistical regions of Portugal, NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities (concelho, ''concelhos'' or ''município ...
, Portugal). The population in 2011 was 4,817,
[Instituto Nacional de Estatística]
/ref> in an area of 159.28 km².
Main sites
* Nossa Senhora do Desterro Convent
* Monchique Church or Nossa Senhora da Conceição Church
* Fóia, highest mountain in Algarve
References
Freguesias of Monchique
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