Description Barrancos

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Barrancos is a Portuguese village located in the Alentejo Region, Beja District and about 400 meters above sea level.

It is the seat of a Municipality with 168.43 Km2 of area and about 1,924 inhabitants (2001 censuses). The Municipality is limited to the north and east by the Spanish Municipalities of Oliva de La Frontera and Valencia del Mombuey (province of Badajoz) and Encinasola (province of Huelva), to the south and west by the Municipality of Moura and to the northwest by the Municipality of Mourão.

Barrancos is one of the five municipalities in Portugal made up of a single parish. It is 110 km from the city of Beja and the same from Évora and Badajoz, 130 from Mérida, 150 from Huelva and 160 from Seville, which attests to its centrality in the regional and cross-border context.

It has great cultural connections with Spain due to the history movements and its geographical proximity to the neighboring Spanish lands. The nearest village is Encinasola just 9 km away, while the nearest Portuguese town Santo Aleixo da Restauração is 21 km away. The most visible manifestations of this cultural relationship are the dialect spoken there, the “Barranquenho”, the uses, customs and traditions, that the bullfighting in Barranquenha with Death Shots (enshrined in the 2002 exception law) is the most notorious example.

Known for its Iberian hams of black leg. In this small town it is worth visiting the Miradouro Garden and the Municipal Museum of Archeology and Ethnography.