Santo Amaro (Sousel)
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Alentejo | |||||
| Sub-region : | Alto Alentejo | |||||
| District : | Portalegre | |||||
| Concelho : | Sousel | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 58 ′ N , 7 ° 35 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 644 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 39.61 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 16 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 7470-155 | |||||
| politics | ||||||
| Mayor : | António João Malias Pernão ( PSD ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Santo Amaro Rua Nova 67 7470-155 Santo Amaro |
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Santo Amaro is a municipality ( freguesia ) in Portugal and belongs to the district of Sousel , with an area of 39.6 km² and 644 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). This results in a population density of 16.3 inh / km².
history
Santo Amaro is the youngest parish in Sousel County. In church records, the place is noted in 1708 as a small town in the Veiros district . Until the end of the 18th century, the place remained a loose collection of individual houses, which only took on the contours of an organic village at the beginning of the 19th century. With the dissolution of Veiros County in 1855 , Santo Amaro came to Fronteira County , to have belonged to Sousel since 1932 . Between 1933 and 1936 , Santo Amaro experienced a significant development boost, with the arrival of electric light, the establishment of its own mail distribution, a health station and a school.
Architectural monuments
In addition to the train station and a stone cross, the town's church is a listed building. The Igreja Paroquial de Santo Amaro (also Igreja de Santo Amaro ) was originally built in the 15th century before extensive renovations were made to it in the 20th century.
traffic
The municipality was a stop on the Linha do Leste railway line until the CP suspended passenger traffic on the line in 2012.
The national road N372 connects the town with the 8.5 km west of the district town Sousel and with the 6.5 km east running IP2 (here also European road E 802).
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Santo Amaro (Sousel) at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Website of the municipality at the district
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- Jump up ↑ Santa Amaro’s History on the county website , accessed July 10, 2013
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on July 10, 2013
