Arrentela

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Arrentela
coat of arms map
Arrentela coat of arms
Arrentela (Portugal)
Arrentela
Basic data
Region : Lisboa
Sub-region : Lisbon metropolitan area
District : Setubal
Concelho : Seixal
Coordinates : 38 ° 37 ′  N , 9 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 37 ′  N , 9 ° 5 ′  W
Residents: 28,648 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 10.17 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 2817 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2840
politics
Website: www.jf-arrentela.pt

Arrentela is a Portuguese village and former municipality ( freguesia ) in the city ​​of Seixal in the Lisbon district on the Setúbal Peninsula on the south side of the Tagus . It belongs to the settlement area known as Margem Sul do Tejo .

Its patron saint is the Mother of God Nossa Senhora da Consolação .

The public holiday is November 1st, when a large procession takes place in honor of the Nossa Senhora da Soledade , who performed the miracle of keeping the tsunami off the Tagus Bay after the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 .

administration

On June 30, 2011, 28,648 inhabitants - Arrentelenses - lived in Arrentela on an area of ​​10.2 km².

Arrentela includes the quarters Casal do Marco, Casal de Santo António, Cavadas, Cavaquinhas, Pinhal dos Frades and Torre da Marinha.

As part of the administrative reorganization in Portugal on September 29, 2013, the municipality of Arrentela was merged with the municipalities of Aldeia de Paio Pires and Seixal to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias do Seixal, Arrentela e Aldeia de Paio Pires . Seixal became the headquarters of the new community.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on January 30, 2015