Elephant locations in Portugal

5 locations has kept elephants in Portugal

There is presently 6 (1,5) living elephants in locations in Portugal in this database

Portugal
Region:	Portugal is in this database included in europe
Location holdings:	5 locations has kept 15 elephants in Portugal (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page)
Elephants in locations	6 (1,5) living 9 (4,4) dead

At least 13 Asian elephants were imported from Asia to Portugal during the sixteenth century, arriving at the Port of Lisbon. One of these elephants reached Rome, two Vienna, one to Madrid, and one of them arrived in Dieppe 1591, but was gifted to Queen Elizabeth in 1592, and was living its last days in the Tower menagerie.

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Portugal. Elephant Encyclopedia, (2023) available online retrieved 2023-02-09 at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Portugal.
(archived at the Wayback machine)

Internal relevant links

The elephant database startpage. Statistics
News about elephants in Portugal (From the sister site Elephant News)

Name	Elephant collection				Place
King Emanuel I of Portugal (private) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	1 relocated	1 deaths	Lisbon
King John III of Portugal (private) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	2 relocated	0 deaths
Lisbon Zoo (zoo) Kept totally 19 elephants	, 4 present (1,3)	4 births	8 relocated	7 deaths	Lisbon
Port of Lisbon (seaport) Kept totally 7 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	7 relocated	0 deaths	Lisboa (map)
Victor Hugo Cardinali circus (circus) Kept totally 5 elephants	, 2 present (0,2)	0 births	2 relocated	1 deaths	(map)

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