Figueira () is a village near
Portimão
Portimão () is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 55,614, in an area of 182.06 km2. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão (). In 1924, it was ...
in the
Algarve in
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
.
In the English-speaking world its main claim to fame is the disappearance there, on 12 September 2004, of a local girl, eight-year-old
Joana Cipriano, and the subsequent conviction of her mother and uncle for murder.
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