Faro

(fah'ro,) a city and seaport of Portugal, on the Valfermosa, prov. Algarve, 20 m. W.S.W. of Tavira. Pop. 9,000.- Cape Faro is the N.E. point of the island of Sicily, serving to bound the narrowest part of the Strait of Me in a, in Lat. 38° 15′ 50″ N., Lon. 15° 40′ 40″ E. [s. 356]