page_title: Cabanas de Tavira
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Cabanas de Tavira / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Fishing boats in the Ria Formosa at Cabanas de Tavira at sunrise. Earth's shadow on the sky is visible as a dark, grey band along the horizon.
context_page_description: Cabanas de Tavira is a former civil parish in the municipality of Tavira, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Conceição e Cabanas de Tavira. The parish covers an area of approximately 4.2 km², and encompasses a resident population of approximately 1181 inhabitants. Once a fishing port, it is now a popular summer tourist destination, owing to its beach and island, which belong to the Ria Formosa Nature Park.
context_section_description: The parish's northern border follows the western railway until slightly after it crosses the E.N.125 motorway; its eastern frontier follows the Ribeiro do Lacém to the coast; the western border also follows a tributary, the Ribeira do Almargem; while the parish fronts the Atlantic Ocean by way of its island (Ilha das Cabanas).
  Cabanas is a long line of low-rise shops, bars and cafés facing the Ria Formosa with several hotel and apartment complexes scattered around the outskirts of the town. In addition to the parish seat, the territory is constituted by several individual places, such as Gorgulho, Canadinha, Canada, Arrancada, Pocinho de Oliveira, Gomeira, Barroquinha, Barroca, Morgadinho, Morgado, Baleeira and Lacém.
  Although the population is relatively small, this number expands considerably during the summer period, due to a large influx of tourists and beach-goers.
caption: Fishing boats moored along the Ria Formosa at sunrise in Cabanas de Tavira
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