Canidelo (Vila do Conde)
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| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Porto metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | postage | |||||
| Concelho : | Vila do Conde | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Malta e Canidelo | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 19 ′ N , 8 ° 39 ′ W | |||||
Canidelo is a place and a former municipality ( freguesia ) in northwestern Portugal .
history
Finds such as megaliths prove a prehistoric settlement.
Today's place was probably rebuilt after the medieval Reconquista . Since 1629 at the latest, Canidelo was an independent municipality. It remained a parish in Maia County until 1836. Since then Canidelo has been part of the Vila do Conde County.
With the territorial reform of 2013, the independent municipality of Canidelo was dissolved and merged with Malta to form the new municipality of Malta e Canidelo .
administration
Canidelo was the seat of a parish of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vila do Conde in the Porto district . It had an area of 3.3 km² and 901 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
On September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Canidelo and Malta were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Malta e Canidelo .
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Canidelo at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Profile Canidelos at the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on Malta and Canidelo on the website of the Vila do Conde district administration, accessed on December 2, 2016
- ^ Entry of the parish church of Canidelo in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA (under Cronologia ), accessed on December 2, 2016
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014