Policoro
Policoro is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. With some 17,000 inhabitants, is bounded by the towns of Rotondella, Scanzano Jonico and Tursi.Photo: Magnolia77, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Generale Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Heraclea Lucania
Archaeological site
Photo: Una giornata uggiosa '94, CC BY 3.0.
Heraclea, also Heracleia or Herakleia, was an ancient city.
Maria Santissima del Ponte
Church
Photo: Magnolia77, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maria Santissima del Ponte is a church.
Policoro
- Type: Town with 17,300 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Province of Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.2105° or 40° 12' 38" northLongitude
16.6764° or 16° 40' 35" eastPopulation
17,300Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open Location Code
8FGR6M6G+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 67280416OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6541279Wikidata ID
Q52327Policoro Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Policoro
- Arabic: بوليكورو
- Armenian: Պոլիկորո
- Basque: Policoro
- Belarusian: Палікора
- Breton: Policoro
- Bulgarian: Поликоро
- Catalan: Policoro
- Cebuano: Policoro
- Chechen: Поликоро
- Chinese: Policoro
- Chinese: 波利科罗
- Croatian: Policoro
- Czech: Policoro
- Danish: Policoro
- Dutch: Policoro
- English: Heraclea
- Esperanto: Policoro
- Estonian: Policoro
- French: Policoro
- German: Policoro
- Greek: Πολικόρο
- Hebrew: פוליקורו
- Hungarian: Policoro
- Indonesian: Policoro
- Interlingua: Policoro
- Irish: Policoro
- Italian: Comune di Policoro
- Italian: Policoro
- Japanese: ポリコーロ
- Javanese: Policoro
- Kazakh: Поликоро
- Kurdish: Policoro
- Ladin: Policoro
- Latin: Polychorium
- Lombard: Policoro
- Malay: Policoro
- Min Nan Chinese: Policoro
- Neapolitan: Policoro
- Norwegian Bokmål: Policoro
- Occitan (post 1500): Policoro
- Persian: پولیکورو
- Piemontese: Policoro
- Polish: Policoro
- Portuguese: Policoro
- Romanian: Policoro
- Russian: Гераклея
- Russian: Поликоро
- Serbian: Policoro
- Serbian: Поликоро
- Serbo-Croatian: Policoro
- Sicilian: Policoru
- Slovak: Policoro
- South Azerbaijani: پولیکورو
- Spanish: Policoro
- Swedish: Policoro
- Tagalog: Policoro
- Tatar: Поликоро
- Turkish: Policoro
- Ukrainian: Полікоро
- Uzbek: Policoro
- Venetian: Policoro
- Volapük: Policoro
- Waray (Philippines): Policoro
- 077021
Other Places Named Policoro
Localities in the Area
- Villaggio DemetraVillage, 3½ km southeast
- Swami ResortVillage, 3½ km southeast
- Villaggio HeracleaVillage, 4 km southeast
- La ConfinaLocality, 4 km northwest
- Lido di PolicoroHamlet, 4½ km southeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Policoro. Photo: Generale Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0.