Murtosa
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Centro | |||||
Sub-region : | Aveiro Region | |||||
District : | Aveiro | |||||
Concelho : | Murtosa | |||||
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 |
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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).
administration
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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:
local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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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) | |||||||
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1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | ||
13 310 | 12 328 | 9 816 | 9 579 | 9 458 | 10 575 |
Municipal holiday
- September 8th
Town twinning
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
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Murtosa at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 10, 2013
- ↑ www.cm-murtosa.pt , accessed January 10, 2013
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on January 10, 2013