Sagres (Vila do Bispo)

Sagres
Sagres
Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 37°00′36″N 8°56′20″W / 37.010°N 8.939°W / 37.010; -8.939
Country Portugal
RegionAlgarve
Intermunic. comm.Algarve
DistrictFaro
MunicipalityVila do Bispo
Area
  Total
34.37 km2 (13.27 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
  Total
1,894
Time zoneUTC+00:00 (WET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Postal code
8650
Area code282
Websitewww.jf-sagres.pt

Sagres is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, in the southern Algarve of Portugal. It has 1,894 inhabitants (2021) in an area of 34.37 square kilometres (13.27 sq mi). It is historically connected to the early Portuguese Age of Discovery.

Sagres is near the Western end of the world's longest estimated straight-line path over land, at 11,241 km, ending near Jinjiang in the People's Republic of China.