Poinguinim

{{short description|Village in Goa, India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Poinguinim

| coordinates = {{coord|14|58|N|74|05|E|display=title,inline|region:IN_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

| pushpin_map = India Goa#India3

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = India

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Goa

| subdivision_type2 = Administrative Region

| subdivision_name2 = Canacona taluka

}}

Poinguinim is a village in the Canacona taluka administrative region of Goa, India, near the Goa-Karnataka border,{{cite web|url=https://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/atlas/30part3.pdf|publisher=Census of India|access-date=2021-10-29|title=Census of India 2011}} and close to the Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary. The village is home to a population of 6,625 people as of the 2011 census.

The name of the village derives from poi, a strip of low-lying land along a river or sea, or a narrow inlet that floods in high tide, and guim or guine, meaning low-lying area.{{Cite journal |last=Phaldesai |first=Pandurang R |date=2001 |title=A Cultural History of the Canacona Taluka of Goa |url=http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/3898 |journal=Goa University |pages=19 |via=Institutional Repository @ Goa University}}