Bunheiro

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Bunheiro
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Bunheiro
Bunheiro (Portugal)
Bunheiro
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Aveiro Region
District : Aveiro
Concelho : Murtosa
Coordinates : 40 ° 46 ′  N , 8 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′  N , 8 ° 39 ′  W
Residents: 2682 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 24.79 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 108 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3870-024
politics
Mayor : Isabel Maria Vilar da Silva Lopes
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Bunheiro
Av. de S. Mateus
3870-024 Bunheiro
Website: www.bunheiro.freguesias.pt

Bunheiro is a place and a municipality in northern Portugal .

The Chapel of Capela de São Simão in Bunheiro, which was built in 1600 and is a listed building

history

Bunheiro belonged to the district of Couto de Antuã , which in 1257 by King D. Afonso III. had been given to the Arouca monastery . In the registers of 1420 the place was still noted as Boinheiro or Boynheiro .

The municipality has since belonged to the Estarreja administrative district . On October 29, 1926, the community was incorporated into the newly founded Murtosa district.

Attractions

administration

Population development in the municipality of Bunheiro (1864–2011)

Bunheiro is one of four parishes ( freguesia ) of the district ( concelho ) of Murtosa , in the Aveiro district . 2682 inhabitants live in the municipality of Bunheiro on an area of ​​24.8 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following localities and districts are located in the municipality:

  • Agro
  • Breja Baixo
  • Breja Cima
  • Bunheiro
  • Casal
  • Celeiro
  • Chão Monte
  • Congostas
  • Esteiro
  • Estrada Sedouros
  • Estrepal
  • Feital
  • Igreja
  • Lagoa Monte
  • Lagoinha
  • Levegada
  • Mata
  • Outeiro Alto
  • Passadouros
  • São Gonçalo
  • São Silvestre
  • São Simão
  • Touregas
  • Vessadas

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

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

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. ^ Entry of the Capela de São Simão in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on July 30, 2016
  4. ^ History of the municipality on the Bunheiro municipal administration website (under A Freguesia / Caracterização / Censos ), accessed on July 30, 2016