ALCOCHETE
38° 45′ 19″ N, 8° 57′ 39″ W
This municipality with 128.36 km² of area and 17 569 inhabitants, with the village of Alcochete having around 10 700 inhabitants, is subdivided into 3 parishes (Alcochete; Samouco; São Francisco ).
The municipality is limited to the north by the municipality of Benavente, to the east and southeast by Palmela, to the southwest by the main area of the municipality of Montijo and to the northwest by the Tagus estuary, in Extremadura.
Alcochete is home to the Tagus Estuary Nature Reserve, with numerous salt flats where several species of water birds nest.
The constant plagues in the capital of the Kingdom led the 14th and 15th century royalty and nobility to settle in Alcochete.
The Vasco da Gama Bridge, the urban and demographic explosion that followed it, launched Alcochete once again into the limelight of events and history.
