| Type: | municipality |
| Flag Border: | no |
| Coordinates: | 41.2°N -15°W |
| Region: | Norte |
| Cim: | Douro |
| District: | Bragança |
| Leader Party: | PSD |
| Leader Name: | Nuno Gonçalves |
| Area Total Km2: | 531.56 |
| Population Total: | 8,572 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Parishes: | 13 |
Torre de Moncorvo (pronounced as /pt-PT/) is a municipality in the district of Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,572,[1] in an area of 531.56 km2.[2]
The present mayor is Nuno Gonçalves, elected by the PSD.
Torre de Moncorvo is also a well-developed and promising mining area. Iron ore is mined at the Mua Mine by Aethel Partners.[3] The municipal holiday is March 19. 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. https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/iron-ore-mining-at-torre-de-moncorvo-to-resume/52754
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.