Murtosa

Murtosa
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Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Aveiro Region
District :	Aveiro
Concelho :	Murtosa
Coordinates :	40 ° 44 ′  N , 8 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′  N , 8 ° 38 ′  W
Residents:	3699 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	14.55 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	254 inhabitants per km²
Murtosa district
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Residents:	10,585 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	73.09 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	145 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Murtosa Câmara Municipal 3870-101
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Joaquim Manuel dos Santos Baptista ( PSD )
Website:	www.cm-murtosa.pt

Murtosa is a vila (small town) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal .

history

In the 13th century fishermen began to settle here. They began to practice agriculture on the fertile soils. To do this, they began to mine salt in the nearby salt pans , which belonged to the Vila Cova das Donas monastery . In a deed of donation to the monastery of Tarouca in 1242 , a salt pans named Morrecosa or Mortecosa was mentioned for the first time . The nearby town of Pardelhas belonged to the municipality of Sandim and was subject to the Vila Cova monastery , while Murtosa was obliged to the Arouca monastery . However, both places were soon administered jointly under civil law. In 1689 Pardelhas belonged to Bemposta, while Murtosa was assigned to Estarreja . Since the administrative reforms following the Liberal Revolution in Portugal in 1822, Pardelhas has been united with the municipality of Murtosa, which has belonged to the Estarreja county since 1855 . In 1926 Murtosa was raised to an independent district and a vila (small town).

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Murtosa is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Ovar , Estarreja , Albergaria-a-Velha , Aveiro and the Atlantic Ocean.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Murtosa district:

Murtosa district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Bunheiro	2,682	24.79	108	011201
Monte	1,459	2.29	638	011202
Murtosa	3,699	14.55	254	011203
Torreira	2,745	31.46	87	011204
Murtosa district	10,585	73.09	145	0112

Population development

The place has always been a fishing village that has long been badly affected by emigration. In the US city of Newark alone there are more people of Murtosa origin than in Murtosa itself. This led to the partnership between the two cities in 2001.

Population in Murtosa County (1930–2011)
1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
13 310	12 328	9 816	9 579	9 458	10 575

Municipal holiday

• September 8th

Town twinning

•  United States : Newark

sons and daughters of the town

• Francisco Maria da Silva (1910–1977), Archbishop of Braga
• António Pinto Barbosa (1917–2006), economist and politician, finance minister in the Salazar dictatorship
• Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (1922-2010), Bishop of Porto
• Apolinário Vaz Portugal (1930–2008), veterinarian, university professor and politician, 1978/79 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries

See also

• List of cultural monuments in the Concelho Murtosa

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Murtosa at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 10, 2013
5. ↑ www.cm-murtosa.pt , accessed January 10, 2013
6. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on January 10, 2013