Vila Nova de Cacela

Vila Nova de Cacela
Parish
Vila Nova de Cacela
Coordinates: 37°10′26″N 7°32′02″W / 37.174°N 7.534°W / 37.174; -7.534Coordinates: 37°10′26″N 7°32′02″W / 37.174°N 7.534°W / 37.174; -7.534
Country Portugal
Region Algarve
Subregion Algarve
Intermunic. comm. Algarve
District Faro
Municipality Vila Real de Santo António
Area
  Total 46.03 km2 (17.77 sq mi)
Population (2011)
  Total 3,902
  Density 85/km2 (220/sq mi)

Vila Nova de Cacela, or simply Cacela, is a town and Civil parish in the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, the southeasternmost of the Algarve, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,902,[1] in an area of 46.03 km².[2] Cacela is an exclave of the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, one of only three in Portugal to have exclaves.

A lagoon and popular beaches exist by the coast of this civil parish. It is also the site of the eighteenth-century Fortaleza de Cacela.

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