Cendufe
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Norte | |||||
Sub-region : | Alto Minho | |||||
District : | Viana do Castelo | |||||
Concelho : | Arcos de Valdevez | |||||
Coordinates : | 41 ° 49 ′ N , 8 ° 29 ′ W | |||||
Residents: | 360 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 3.16 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 114 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Postal code : | 4970-116 | |||||
politics | ||||||
Mayor : | Artur Anselmo Gomes Antunes da Silva | |||||
Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Cendufe Lugar de Crasto 4970-116 Cendufe |
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Website: | www.jf-cendufe.com |
Cendufe is a town and municipality in northern Portugal .
The inventor Manuel António Gomes (1868–1933) was born here. The clergyman, also known as the Padre Himalaya because of his above-average height, is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern use of solar energy .
history
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The baroque listed parish church of Cendufe
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The archeology is a settlement Cendufes least since the Castro culture , local finds were into Portuguese Ethnological Museum in Lisbon (today National Archeology Museum transferred).
In the surveys under King D. Afonso III. In the 13th century the place was still listed as Sancti Jacobi de Rodalio , in records from 1320 under King D. Dinis the community is noted as ecclesiam Sancti Jacobi de Cenduffe . The community has had its current name since the registers under King D. Manuel at the end of the 15th century.
Between 1864 (possibly as early as 1853) and 1900, Cendufe formed a single community with Rio Cabrão , after which Cendufe became independent again. In 1839 Cendufe still belonged to the district of Ponte de Lima , since 1852 it has been a municipality in the district of Arcos de Valdevez.
administration
Cendufe is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Arcos de Valdevez in the district of Viana do Castelo . 360 inhabitants live in it on an area of 3 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
The following localities are in the municipality of Cendufe:
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Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Cendufe at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the municipality of Cendufe
- Entry for the municipality of Cendufe in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ entry of the Congregational Church of Cendufe in the Portuguese monument list SIPA, accessed on May 23, 2020
- ↑ Website on the profile and history of the municipality , website of the Cendufe municipal administration, accessed on May 23, 2020