Rio Mau (Vila do Conde)

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Rio Mau
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Rio Mau (Portugal)
Rio Mau
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 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

Commons : Rio Mau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information on Rio Mau and Arcos on the Vila do Conde district administration website, accessed December 2, 2016
  2. ^ Entry of the first parish church in Rio Mau in the Portuguese SIPA list of monuments (under Cronologia ), accessed on December 2, 2016
  3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014