Meia Praia, Lagos Live Cam

Meia Praia has a wide beach that accompanies the wide bay of Lagos, begins next to the pier of the village of Ribeira de Bensafrim and extends for more than 4 kilometers until reaching the sandy barrier of the Ria de Alvor, Algarve, Portugal.

The municipality of Lagos is located on the south coast of Portugal. Its territory occupies 215 km2, where 25 thousand inhabitants live. The density is 118 h/km2.

As in the rest of the Algarve, human occupation is uneven, decreasing from the coast to the interior, and the territory has three distinct areas: the coast, the barrocal and the mountains. Therefore, most of the population is concentrated on the coast and is engaged in the service sector. In the barrocal, agricultural activities predominate. In the mountains, forests.

The main urban center is the city of Lagos, with around 15.000 inhabitants and 3.500 buildings.

Lagos is an ancient maritime city. There are written and archaeological documents that attest to its existence for more than two thousand years. It had enormous importance in the period of the Discoveries, having lived in it the Infante D.Henrique. From Lagos, expeditions departed to Morocco and the West African coast. It was the seat of the Casa da Guiné.