Algarve

[ahl-gahr-vuh, al-]

noun

1. a coastal region of S Portugal. 1,958 sq. mi. (5,070 sq. km).

Algarve

/ ælˈɡɑːv /

noun

1. an area in the south of Portugal, on the Atlantic; it approximately corresponds to the administrative district of Faro: fishing and tourism important

Example Sentences

Rapid development in the coastal region of Comporta has alarmed locals and environmentalists, who fear a repeat of the unchecked growth seen in Portugal's southernmost Algarve province, long a package holiday destination.

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Madeleine's disappearance at the age of three, during a family holiday in Portugal's Algarve on 3 May 2007, is one of the most widely reported missing child cases and remains unsolved.

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The then-three-year-old vanished from an apartment complex in Praia da Luz in the Algarve on 3 May 2007, sparking a Europe-wide investigation that has become one of the highest-profile missing persons cases.

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The family, who were living in Thetford, Norfolk, were driving in Faro, in the Algarve, when their car collided with another vehicle on the IP2 main road in Castro Verde.

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That is why the BKA footed the bill for the search this week in ruined farm buildings on merciless, shadeless scrubland in the rising heat of an Algarve summer.

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