Rio Mau (Vila do Conde)
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Norte | |||||
Sub-region : | Porto metropolitan area | |||||
District : | postage | |||||
Concelho : | Vila do Conde | |||||
Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Rio Mau e Arcos | |||||
Coordinates : | 41 ° 24 ′ N , 8 ° 41 ′ W |
Rio Mau is a place and a former municipality ( Freguesia ) in northwestern Portugal .
history
The presence of the Romans is particularly evidenced by numerous finds of roof tiles.
The current location may have been rebuilt after the medieval Reconquista . Since 1151 at the latest, the place was called São Cristóvão de Rio Mau a separate community around an existing monastery. The name Rio Mau ( Portuguese for: bad river) goes back, according to local legends, to the Rio Este that runs here.
Rio Mau was initially a municipality belonging to Barcelos , later to Póvoa de Varzim . In the course of the numerous administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1820 and the subsequent Miguelistenkrieg (1832-1834) Rio Mau was finally incorporated in 1853 into the Vila do Conde district.
With the municipal reform in 2013 , the independent municipality of Rio Mau was dissolved and merged with Arcos to form the new municipality of Rio Mau e Arcos .
administration
Rio Mau was the seat of an independent municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vila do Conde in the district of Porto . It had an area of 9.9 km² and 1852 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
As part of the regional reform on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Rio Mau and Arcos were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Rio Mau e Arcos . Rio Mau became the seat of this newly formed community.
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Rio Mau at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Profile Rio Mouse in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information on Rio Mau and Arcos on the Vila do Conde district administration website, accessed December 2, 2016
- ^ Entry of the first parish church in Rio Mau in the Portuguese SIPA list of monuments (under Cronologia ), accessed on December 2, 2016
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014