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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Vanakbara
|native_name = Brancavará<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diu and the Diuese: Indian Ocean, Heritage, and Cultural Landscape|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2018.1439435}}</ref>
or Brancawada<ref>{{Cite web|title=DAMAN & DIU|url=https://surveyofindia.gov.in/files/Diu_1.pdf}}</ref>
|image_skyline = Map of Diu with Forte Simbor (Forte Pani Kota) 1934.jpg
|image_caption = Map of Diu showing Brancavará
|settlement_type = Village
|pushpin_map = India
|subdivision_type = [[List of countries|Country]]
|subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[Union Territories of India|UT]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu|DNDD]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Diu District|Diu]]
|subdivision_type3 = Sub-district
|subdivision_name3 = [[Diu Island]]
|founder =
|named_for =
|leader_title = [[Sarpanch]]
|leader_name =
|established_title =
|established_date =
|area_total_km2 =
|area_footnotes =
|population_as_of = 2020
|population_total = approx. 1,695<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vanakbara|url=https://geoiq.io/places/Vanakbara/5Gzd6dOgGC}}</ref>
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_demonym = Vanakbarai or Brancavaroi
|population_footnotes =
|demographics_type1 = Languages
|demographics1_title1 = Official
|demographics1_info1 = [[English language|English]]
|demographics1_title2 = Also spoken (understood)
|demographics1_info2 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
|demographics1_title3 = Historical
|demographics1_info3 = [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]

|demographics_type2 = Religions
|demographics2_title1 = Dominant
|demographics2_info1 = [[Christianity]], [[Hinduism]]
|demographics2_title2 = Minor
|demographics2_info2 =
|demographics2_title3 = Historical
|demographics2_info3 = [[Roman Catholicism]]

|timezone = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
|utc_offset = +5:30
|coordinates = {{coord|20|42|46.24|N|70|57|36.67|E|region:IN|display=inline,title}}
|elevation_m = 4
|postal_code_type = Postcode
|postal_code =
|area_code_type = Telephone code
|area_code =
|government_type = [[Panchayati raj in India|Panchayat]]
|website =
|footnotes =
}}

'''Vanakbara''' or '''Brancavará''' (also spelt ''Brancawada'') is a fishing village<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diu's fishing village of Vanakbara: A great place if you can bear the smell|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/lifestyle/there-is-something-fishy-in-a-village-in-diu-and-tourists-are-loving-it-119072000031_1.html}}</ref> along the western tip of [[Diu Island|Diu]]. It is around {{Convert|45|km}} away from the town of [[Diu, India|Diu]].

Its main attractions are its beach - which lies to the south of the village and the fish market itself<ref>{{Cite web |title=12 Easy Weekend Getaways to Get Away from the Crowd - Part II|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/71218/city-breaks-in-india-part-two}}</ref>

The oldest building in the village is the Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia church, dating to the 1616 AD.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The island of Diu, its architecture and historic remains”, M. and N. H. Shokoohy, SAS, vol. XXVI, 2010, 161-190, figs 1-40 (1 map, 1 site plan, 2 town plans, 24 architectural drawings, 33 photographs)
|url=http://shokoohy.com/south_asian_studies_17.html
}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Villages in Diu district]]

Vanakbara - Revision history

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