Estômbar

Estômbar
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Algarve
Sub-region :	Algarve
District :	Faro
Concelho :	Lagoa
Freguesia :	União das Freguesias de Estômbar e Parchal
Coordinates :	37 ° 9 ′  N , 8 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 9 ′  N , 8 ° 29 ′  W
Postal code :	8400

Estômbar , sometimes also Estombar , is a small town and a former municipality in the Algarve in southern Portugal .

history

The parish church in Estômbar

The Moors named the place Sanabus , which was part of a fortress called Abenabeci . During the Christian Reconquista , the Portuguese King D. Sancho I conquered the place in 1191.

It remained a small, agricultural place, which achieved a relative prosperity through the salt production and trade over the Rio Arade .

Estômbar experienced an upswing with the emergence of the canned fish industry in the 19th century and the subsequent increase in population.

On August 16, 1991, Estômbar was elevated to a small town ( Vila ).

After Estômbar had lost part of its area in 1997 through the outsourcing of the newly created municipality Parchal , both municipalities were dissolved with the territorial reform in 2013 and merged into the new municipality Estômbar e Parchal .

administration

Estômbar was the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Lagoa in the Faro district . The community had an area of ​​24.21 km² and 4989 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

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

The following places and districts belonged to the municipality of Estômbar:

Abicada Bairro Municipal Marinhas Balerques Benafundão Bom Sarilho Cabeço de Pias Calvário Carrasca Corredoras Cotovio

Cova São João Eira Alta Estação da Cp Estombar Fontes Gramacho Guenas Mexilhoeira da Carregação Poço dos Pardais Pombal

Quinta das Pias Quinta do Alto Telheiro Urbanização Fazenda Grande Urbanização Presa de Moura Urbanização Vale da Pinta Vale da Vila Vale de Deus Vale Pinta

As part of the territorial reform in Portugal on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Estômbar and Parchal were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Estômbar e Parchal . Estômbar is the seat of this newly formed municipality.

At the Estômbar-Lagoa train station

traffic

Estômbar is located on the Linha do Algarve railway line with its own train station .

The public transport in the municipality is through local and regional bus lines of the private bus operator Eva Transportes operated. In particular, its line 76 connects Estômbar to Lagoa and Portimão every half hour.

sons and daughters of the town

• Muhammad ibn Ammar (1031-1086), possibly an Arab poet and politician born in Estômbar and not in Silves
• Remexido (José Joaquim de Sousa Reis, 1796–1838), resistance fighter in the Miguelistenkrieg

Web links

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

• Entry on Estômbar on www.algarve-portal.com (English, German and Portuguese)
• Profile Estômbars in the Mapas de Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estômbar website at www.algarve-portal.com, accessed on December 31, 2016
2. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
3. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
4. ↑ Timetable for Eva bus route 76 , pdf available on the Eva website (Portuguese and English), accessed on December 31, 2016