Figueira (Portuguese pronunciation: [fiˈɡɐjɾɐ]) is a village near Portimão in the Algarve in Portugal.
In the English-speaking world its main claim to fame is the disappearance there, on 12 September 2004, of a local girl, eight-year-old Joana Cipriano, and the subsequent conviction of her mother and uncle for murder.[1]
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