Manteigas
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Beiras e Serra da Estrela | |||||
| District : | Guarda | |||||
| Concelho : | Manteigas | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 24 ′ N , 7 ° 32 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 3430 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 121.97 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 28 inhabitants per km² | |||||
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| Residents: | 3430 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 121.97 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 28 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Number of municipalities : | 4th | |||||
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| Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Manteigas Rua 1.º de Maio 6260-101 Manteigas |
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| President of the Câmara Municipal: | Esmeraldo Saraiva Neto Carvalhinho ( PS ) | |||||
| Website: | www.cm-manteigas.pt | |||||
Manteigas is a small town ( vila ) and a district ( concelho ) in the Serra da Estrela in the Portuguese region of Centro .
history
The Portuguese word Manteiga means butter and is one of the few words from the time before the Roman rule in Portugal that has been preserved from the language of the indigenous people of today's Portugal ( Lusitaner , Konii, Iberer ) to modern Portuguese. The area around Manteigas is famous for its dairy products, e.g. B. for the Queijo da Serra da Estrela , which is considered the best cheese in Portugal, and for its thermal springs , Caldas de Manteigas .
Manteigas got the town charter ( Portuguese : Foral ) in 1188 by King Dom Sancho I , which was renewed by King Dom Manuel I in 1514.
The Pousada de São Lourenço, Manteigas
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Manteigas is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Guarda district . The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Gouveia , Guarda , Covilhã and Seia .
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Manteigas district:
| local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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| Sao Pedro | 1,446 | 60.88 | 24 | 090803 |
| Sameiro | 343 | 22.03 | 16 | 090801 |
| Santa Maria | 1,418 | 22.30 | 64 | 090802 |
| Vale de Amoreira | 223 | 16.76 | 13 | 090804 |
| Manteigas district | 3,430 | 121.97 | 28 | 0908 |
Population development
| Population in Manteigas County (1801–2011) | ||||||||||
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| 1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2004 | 2008 | 2011 |
| 2000 | 2632 | 4134 | 4080 | 5276 | 4493 | 4192 | 3833 | 3900 | 4002 | 3430 |
Municipal holiday
- 4th of March
Town twinning
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France : Morlaàs (since 1989) -
Brazil : Santa Cruz Cabrália (since 1999)
sons and daughters of the town
- Manuel Duarte Leitão (1787–1856), judge and liberal politician
- Albino Mamede Cleto (1935–2012), Bishop of Coimbra
- Diamantino Prata de Carvalho (* 1940), bishop emeritus of Campanha in Brazil
- Adelino Carlos Morais Nunes (* 1960), football player
- Manuel A. Domingos (* 1977), journalist, writer and translator
Web links
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
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 2, 2013
