Torre de Moncorvo (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ mõˈkoɾvu] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Bragança in Portugal.
Torre de Moncorvo is also a well-developed and promising mining area.
In early November, the directorate-general for energy and geology (DGEG) authorised Aethel to control the Torre de Moncorvo iron mine, a company that hopes to put Portugal in a leading position in European mining.
[1] Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes (freguesias):[4] According to a study by Antonio Andrade, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges had Portuguese ancestry: Borges's great-grandfather, Francisco, was born in Portugal in 1770, and lived in Torre de Moncorvo, before he emigrated to Argentina.
Torre de Moncorvo has a Mediterranean climate with warm to very hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, depending on the altitude.