Aguçadoura

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Aguçadoura
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Aguçadoura coat of arms
Aguçadoura (Portugal)
Aguçadoura
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Porto metropolitan area
District : postage
Concelho : Póvoa de Varzim
Freguesia : União das Freguesias de Aguçadoura e Navais
Coordinates : 41 ° 26 ′  N , 8 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 26 ′  N , 8 ° 47 ′  W

Aguçadoura is a place and a former municipality in northern Portugal .

The place is known as a surf spot and as the site of the world's first commercially operated wave power plant.

history

In the royal surveys of 1258, the place was noted as a small settlement Petra Aguçadoira in the municipality of Navais . The place developed only slowly, the situation in the dunes with its sand movements made life and livelihood too difficult .

In the second half of the 19th century, the place then experienced an upswing, when the reclamation of the dunes greatly expanded the agricultural area and made productive arable farming possible from then on. In 1873 the residents built their first chapel.

In 1934 Aguçadoura became an independent municipality by being separated from Navais.

On June 22, 2011 Aguçadoura was elevated to a small town ( Vila ).

With the municipal reorganization in 2013 , the municipalities of Aguçadoura and Navais were dissolved and merged to form the new municipality of Aguçadoura e Navais .

administration

Location of the municipality of Aguçadoura in the Póvoa de Varzim district

Aguçadoura was a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Póvoa de Varzim in the district of Porto . The community had an area of ​​3.63 km² and 4249 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

The former municipality of Aguçadoura consists of six localities and districts:

  • Aldeia
  • Areosa
  • Caturela
  • Codicheira
  • Granjeiro
  • Santo André

With the territorial reform in Portugal on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Aguçadoura and Navais were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Aguçadoura e Navais . Aguçadoura is the seat of this newly formed municipality.

Pelamis wave power plants off the coast of Aguçadoura

economy

The municipality has traditionally been an important producer of agricultural products, especially vegetables and flowers. The reason for this is the fertile fields and the seaweed that was previously used as a fertilizer . The A Seareira cultivation cooperative was founded here in 1917 , the nucleus of today's regional cultivation association HORPOZIM ( Associação dos Horticultores da Póvoa de Varzim ), which is based in Aguçadoura.

Tourism on the sandy beaches is important, especially for surfers , who are drawn to the strong waves here.

Electricity was produced in a Pelamis wave power station off the coast of Aguçadoura . It was founded in 2003 after 20 years of research and development work at the Instituto Superior Técnico and was put into regular operation in 2008. It was the first of its kind in the world. In 2014 its operation was closed due to technical and financial problems. From 2011 to 2016, a prototype of a floating wind power plant was also located 5 km from Aguçadoura; it produced electricity with an energy of 16 GWh and was then dismantled.

Barranha beach

beaches

  • Praia de Aguçadoura
  • Praia da Barranha

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Aguçadoura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article on the wave power plant in Aguçadoura on www.power-technology.com, accessed on February 19, 2016
  2. ↑ Information on Aguçadoura on the page about the new municipality of Aguçadoura e Navais on the website of the Póvoa de Varzim district administration, accessed on February 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Announcement of the survey of Aguçadoura and other places on the small town ( Vila ) in the Portuguese legal gazette Diário da República (pdf), accessed on February 19, 2016
  4. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
  6. ↑ founding file of the A Seareira cooperative , pdf access , accessed on February 19, 2016
  7. ↑ Entry on Aguçadoura ( memento from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on www.surf-the-world.com, accessed on February 19, 2016
  8. ^ Taylor Hill: Wave Power Could Supply Half the US With Cheap Electricity — Here's Why It Doesn't. In: TakePart. Participant Media, January 26, 2015, accessed March 24, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Bernd Schröder: Sea snake requiem. In: Telepolis> Energy and Climate. heise online, October 14, 2017, accessed on March 24, 2018 .
  10. ↑ WindFloat®. PrinciplePower, accessed March 24, 2018 .