Ribeira de Pena
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Alto Tâmega | |||||
| District : | Vila Real | |||||
| Concelho : | Ribeira de Pena | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 31 ′ N , 7 ° 49 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 6544 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 217.47 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 30 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Ribeira de Pena district | ||||||
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| Residents: | 6544 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 217.47 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 30 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Number of municipalities : | 5 | |||||
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| Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Ribeira de Pena Praça do Município 4870-152 Ribeira de Pena |
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| President of the Câmara Municipal: | Agostinho Alves Pinto ( PSD ) | |||||
| Website: | www.cm-rpena.pt | |||||
Ribeira de Pena is a small town ( vila ) in northern Portugal .
geography
Ribeira da Pena is located about 40 km north of the district capital Vila Real , in the east-facing highlands of the former Trás-os-Montes region . The district town of Vila Pouca de Aguiar is about 15 km to the east, the UNESCO World Heritage city of Guimarães about 50 km to the west. The Ribeira de Pena district has a rich and varied landscape, the deep valleys of the Tâmega and its tributaries, and the lush greenery surrounding them characterize the landscape.
history
Mamoas , rock paintings and other finds prove a settlement at least since the Neolithic . After the Romans from the 2nd century BC When the area occupied the area, Roman settlers settled here. Finds such as villas , fortifications, coins and ceramics date from this period .
In the course of the Reconquista the place was repopulated. King D. Afonso IV issued the first town charter for the place in Tentúgal on September 29, 1331 , still under the name Terra da Pena. The knight Nuno Álvares Pereira bought some estates here after his services to the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal in the revolution of 1383 .
King D. Manuel I renewed the town charter in 1517. In the course of the various administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution of 1822 , the dissolution of the independent Ribeira de Pena district was planned for a short time. Instead, however, the district of Cerva was dissolved in 1853 and Ribeira de Pena was incorporated.
administration
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Ribeira de Pena is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Vila Real district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 6544 inhabitants on an area of 217.5 km².
The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Boticas , Vila Pouca de Aguiar , Vila Real , Mondim de Basto and Cabeceiras de Basto .
With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were combined into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from seven to five.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Ribeira de Pena district:
| local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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| Alvadia | 196 | 33.74 | 6th | 170901 |
| Canedo | 390 | 36.16 | 11 | 170902 |
| Cerva e Limoes | 2,615 | 60.04 | 44 | 170908 |
| Ribeira de Pena e Santo Aleixo de Além-Tâmega | 2,785 | 52.85 | 53 | 170909 |
| Santa Marinha | 558 | 34.68 | 16 | 170906 |
| Ribeira de Pena district | 6,544 | 217.47 | 30th | 1709 |
Population development
| Population in the district of Ribeira de Pena (1801–2011) | |||||||||
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| 1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | |
| 2347 | 2898 | 9606 | 10,806 | 13,309 | 10,796 | 8504 | 7412 | 6544 | |
Municipal holiday
- August 16
Town twinning
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Santa Cruz Cabrália , Brazil (since 1992) -
Saint-Galmier , France (since 1999)
traffic
The A7 motorway passes Ribeira da Pena, which has its own connection with junction no. 13.
Until the suspension of the Linha do Corgo railway line in 2009, the nearest train station was in Vila Pouca de Aguiar, about 15 km to the east. If the route, as feared by the local population, is not put back into operation, there will no longer be a railway connection in the vicinity of the district.
Ribeira da Pena is part of the Rede Expressos national bus network.
Personalities
The writer Camilo Castelo Branco married here on August 18, 1841, at the age of only 16, in the municipality of Salvador .
Sons and daughters of the town:
- Veríssimo João de Carvalho (1709–1778), colonial administrator, expanded gold mining in Brazil
- Flávio Meireles (* 1976), football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed October 5, 2013
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed October 5, 2013
- ↑ Almeida Cardoso: Exigem regresso dos comboios [return of trains required], Correio da Manhã , April 3, 2013
Alijó | Boticas | Chaves | Mesão Frio | Mondim de Basto | Montalegre | Murça | Peso da Régua | Ribeira de Pena | Sabrosa | Santa Marta de Penaguião | Valpaços | Vila Pouca de Aguiar | Vila Real