Cape Santo André is a cape located in the Northern coast of continental Portugal

Portugal

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, in Santo André, municipality of Póvoa de Varzim

Póvoa de Varzim

Póvoa de Varzim is a Portuguese city in the Norte Region and sub-region of Greater Porto, with a 2011 estimated population of 63,364. According to the 2001 census, there were 63,470 inhabitants with 42,396 living in the city proper. The urban area expanded, southwards, to Vila do Conde, and there...

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It is probably the old Roman Avarius/Auarius Promontorium or Auaron Promontorium (In Ancient Greek, Αὔαρον ἄκρον) referred by Ptolemy

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...

, geographer of Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

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, in the territory of the Callaici Bracares, between the river Avus (Ave River) and river Nebis (Neiva River). Romanization is also visible in the place. Near the cape, there's the Santo André chapel and Rock, to whom Poveiros fishermen dedicate a night pilgrimage throw the beach.