Minervino Murge
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| Country | Italy | |
| region | Apulia | |
| province | Barletta-Andria-Trani (BT) | |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 6 ′ N , 16 ° 5 ′ E | |
| height | 445 m slm | |
| surface | 255.38 km² | |
| Residents | 8,604 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density | 34 inhabitants / km² | |
| Post Code | 70055 | |
| prefix | 0883 | |
| ISTAT number | 110006 | |
| Popular name | Minervinesi | |
| Patron saint | San Michele Arcangelo | |
| Website | Minervino Murge | |
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Minervino Murge is an Italian municipality with 8604 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani , Apulia region . Before 2008, the municipality was part of the province of Bari .
geography
The municipality is located on the Murge plateau , on the north-western edge of the Alta Murgia National Park . Six kilometers west of the village is the Lago Locone reservoir , which has dammed the Locone River with a dam since the 1980s .
The neighboring towns of Minervino Murge are Andria , Canosa di Puglia , Lavello (PZ), Montemilone (PZ) and Spinazzola .
Population development
Minervino Murge has 4,145 private households . Since the peak of the population in 1951, the population has been falling steadily. Between 1991 and 2001 the population fell from 10,982 to 10,213. This corresponds to a percentage decrease of 7.0%. In 2011, for the first time in 150 years, a population below 10,000 was registered.
Community partnerships
Minervino Murge's partner municipality is Sagliano Micca in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Personalities
The parish is the birthplace of Agostino Superbo , the retired Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ^ Website of the municipality , accessed June 14, 2017
