Vila Nova de Cacela

Vila Nova de Cacela
Civil parish
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Vila Nova de Cacela Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 37.174°N 7.534°W / 37.174; -7.534
Country	Portugal
Region	Algarve
Intermunic. comm.	Algarve
District	Faro
Municipality	Vila Real de Santo António
Area
• Total	46.03 km^2 (17.77 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	3,903
• Density	85/km^2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)

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 3,903,[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.

References

1. Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país