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Charneca de Caparica

former civil parish in Portugal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1067624 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charneca de Caparica (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʃɐɾˈnɛkɐ ðɐ kɐpɐˈɾikɐ]) is a former civil parish in the municipality of Almada, Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Charneca de Caparica e Sobreda. The population in 2011 was 29,763, in an area of 23.14 km2.

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“Charneca de Caparica” enters the record as former civil parish in Portugal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charneca, Caparica and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Charneca, Caparica and former.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1067624. Authority coordinates are 38.617, -9.183. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charneca de Caparica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.