Rio Tinto (Gondomar)

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Rio Tinto
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Rio Tinto coat of arms
Rio Tinto (Portugal)
Rio Tinto
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Porto metropolitan area
District : postage
Concelho : Gondomar
Coordinates : 41 ° 11 ′  N , 8 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 11 ′  N , 8 ° 34 ′  W
Residents: 50,713 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 9.38 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 5407 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4435
politics
Mayor : or
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Rio Tinto
Largo do Mosteiro, s / n
4435-346 Rio Tinto
Website: www.jf-riotinto.pt

Rio Tinto is a municipality ( freguesia ) and a city in Portugal . It is a northeastern suburb of Porto and is located in Gondomar County in the Porto District . Rio Tinto has a community area of ​​9.4 km² and 50,713 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

Nothing has survived from an old monastery today. In 1867 it was decided to merge the parishes of Águas Santas, Covêlo, Gondomar, São Pedro da Cova, Rio Tinto, Valbom, São Vicente de Alfena and Valongo to form the parish (Conselho) Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto received its town charter on August 30, 1995.

The Igreja Matriz de Rio Tinto church, built in 1768, and the Quinta de Campaínha chapel are particularly worth seeing.

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Panoramic view of the city
Igreja Matriz de Rio Tinto

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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

Web links

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