Pocinho is a village in northern
Portugal, located in the
Vila Nova de Foz Côa Municipality. The Pocinho Dam and the
River Douro are nearby.
Pocinho railway station is the eastern terminus of the
Douro railway line; the community developed with the arrival of the railway in 1887. The railway formerly continued eastwards into Spain, but closed in 1988.
The
Sabor line, a
narrow gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structur ...
, formerly ran north-east from Pocinho over 100 km to Duas Igrejas (near
Miranda do Douro). The Sabor line closed in 1988.
The Portuguese journalist, novelist and politician Francisco José Viegas was born in Pocinho on 14 March 1962.
References
''Based on the Portuguese Wikipedia website''
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Populated places in Guarda District
Villages in Portugal