Tocha
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Region of Coimbra | |||||
| District : | Coimbra | |||||
| Concelho : | Cantanhede | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 19 ′ N , 8 ° 45 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 3992 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 78.44 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 51 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 3060 | |||||
| politics | ||||||
| Mayor : | Júlio José Loureiro de Oliveira | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Tocha Largo António José Almeida, 83 3060-014 Tocha |
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| Website: | www.jf-tocha.pt | |||||
Tocha is a municipality ( Freguesia ) and small town (Vila) in Portugal with 3992 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The beaches in Praia da Tocha are regionally known .
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history
In 1140 Portugal's first king D. Afonso Henriques gave Tocha to the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra . After it belonged to the municipality of Cadima (Cantanhede district), Tocha became an independent municipality for the first time in 1907, and on July 9, 1985 it was raised to the rank of Vila .
traffic
Tocha is on the A17 that connects Marinha Grande with Aveiro. The national road N 109 (IC 1) from Leiria to Vila Nova de Gaia crosses the town center in a north-south direction.
administration
In the municipality of Tocha there are:
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Sports
The football club União Desportiva da Tocha, founded in 1953, is based in the municipality . The municipality's soccer field served as the venue for the qualifying round of Group 7 of the 2011 Women's World Cup , where the Portuguese women's national soccer team won their highest qualifying victory on March 31, 2010, 7-0 against Armenia .
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Tocha at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the local government
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
- ↑ www.jf-tocha.pt ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 14, 2012
- ↑ Web presence of the sports club , Portuguese, accessed on April 26, 2010
- ↑ Qualifying round results on fifa.com, accessed April 26, 2010
