Covas (Lousada)

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Covas
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Covas (Portugal)
Covas
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Tâmega e Sousa
District : postage
Concelho : Lousada
Coordinates : 41 ° 17 ′  N , 8 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 17 ′  N , 8 ° 19 ′  W
Residents: 726 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 1.5 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 484 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4620-111
politics
Mayor : João Luís Ferreira Meireles ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Covas
Rua S. João Evangelista, n.761
4620-111 Covas

Covas is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district ( concelho ) of Lousada . 726 inhabitants live in it (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The current place was probably created during the repopulation during the Reconquista . In the royal surveys of 1258 Covas was already run as a separate municipality.

Culture and sights

The single-nave parish church Igreja Paroquial de Covas ( also Igreja de São João Evangelista , after its patron saint : Church of John the Evangelist) dates from the 17th century.

Other monuments in the municipality are the pilgrimage chapel Santuário da Capela da Senhora do Amparo , and the chapel Capela de Nossa Senhora do Alívio (English: Chapel of Our Lady of Relief), with the adjoining cemetery.

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.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on August 22, 2013
  4. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on August 22, 2013
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