Campelo (Figueiró dos Vinhos)

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Campelo
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Campelo coat of arms
Campelo (Portugal)
Campelo
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Region of Leiria
District : Leiria
Concelho : Figueiró dos Vinhos
Coordinates : 40 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 0 ′  N , 8 ° 16 ′  W
Residents: 278 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 51.64 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 5.4 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3260-204
politics
Mayor : Ana Maria Costa Desterro Simoes da Silva
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Campelo
J.F.Campelo
3260-204 Campelo
Website: www.freguesiadecampelo.com

Campelo is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Figueiró dos Vinhos . It has a population of 278 (as of June 30, 2011).

history

Christian settlers settled here during the Reconquista . Under the reign of King Sancho I , the area belonged to the district of Miranda do Corvo under the name Casal da Ponte . Only after the Liberal Revolution in Portugal and the subsequent Miguelistenkrieg was the municipality assigned to the district of Figueiró dos Vinhos after 1834. It had since been renamed Campelo, after the clergyman Frei Gaspar de Campelo who worked here .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b 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. www.cm-figueirodosvinhos.pt ( Memento of November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 23, 2012