Olhos de Água is a former ''

freguesia ''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...

'' ("civil parish"), located in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Albufeira Albufeira () is a city and seat of its own municipality in the district of Faro, in the southernmost Portuguese region of Algarve. The municipality population in 2021 was 44,158, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 28,645 in 2021 ...

, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish

Albufeira e Olhos de Água Albufeira e Olhos de Água is a ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") in Albufeira Municipality, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Albufeira (parish), Albufeira and Olhos de Água. The population in 2011 was 26,742,

. It has a population of 3,221 (2001) and an area of 15.69 km². The name (literally: "eyes of water") refers to the fresh water springs on the beach, visible when the sea is on low tide.

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Former parishes of Albufeira {{Faro-geo-stub