Baião, Portugal
Baião (Portuguese pronunciation: [baˈjɐ̃w] ) is a municipality in ⓘPorto District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 20,522,[1] in an area of 174.53 km².[2]
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Coordinates: 41°10′N 8°02′W | |
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Region | Norte |
Intermunic. comm. | Tâmega e Sousa |
District | Porto |
Parishes | 14 |
Government | |
• President | Paulo Pereira (PS) |
Area | |
• Total | 174.53 km2 (67.39 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 20,522 |
• Density | 120/km2 (300/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC±00:00 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
Website | http://www.cm-baião.pt |
Baião received a charter from Manuel I on 1 September 1513.
The present Mayor is Paulo Pereira, elected from the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is August 24.
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 14 civil parishes (freguesias):[3]
- Ancede e Ribadouro (town of Ancede)
- Baião (Santa Leocádia) e Mesquinhata
- Campelo e Ovil (town of Baião)
- Frende
- Gestaçô
- Gove
- Grilo
- Loivos da Ribeira e Tresouras
- Loivos do Monte
- Santa Cruz do Douro e São Tomé de Covelas
- Santa Marinha do Zêzere (town)
- Teixeira e Teixeiró
- Valadares
- Viariz
Notable people
- Soeiro Pereira Gomes (1909 in Gestaçô – 1949) a Portuguese writer of realist influence
- António Mota (born 1957) a Portuguese writer for children and young people.
- Ricardo José Vaz Alves Monteiro (born 1983 in Gestaçô), known as Tarantini, a former footballer with 495 club caps
References
- Instituto Nacional de Estatística Archived November 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
- Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 21" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 17 July 2014.
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