Geography
It is located at the northern edge of the district of Coimbra in the foothills of the Serra da Estrela Mountains, bisected by the Alva and Alvoco River valleys.
- Aldeia das Dez
- Alvoco das Várzeas
- Avô
- Bobadela
- Ervedal
- Lagares
- Lagos da Beira
- Lajeosa
- Lourosa
- Meruge
- Nogueira do Cravo
- Oliveira do Hospital
- Penalva de Alva
- Santa Ovaia
- São Gião
- São Paio de Gramaços
- São Sebastião da Feira
- Seixo da Beira
- Travanca de Lagos
- Vila Franca da Beira
- Vila Pouca da Beira
Read more about this topic: Oliveira Do Hospital Municipality, Portugal
Famous quotes containing the word geography:
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much geography is there in their names.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)