Oliveira de Azeméis

Coordinates: 40°50′N 8°29′W / 40.833°N 8.483°W / 40.833; -8.483
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Oliveira de Azeméis (Portuguese pronunciation:

District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611,[1] in an area of 161.10 km2.[2] The city itself has a population of about 20,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is located 35 km to the south of Porto
. It is less than 20 km far from the Atlantic Ocean. The municipal holiday is the Monday that follows the 2nd Sunday of August.

Facilities

Local facilities include:

Economy

It is an important industrial center, producing a wide variety of goods such as

injection moulds, dairy produce, shoes, car components, steel tubes and other steel materials (Ferpinta), cookware (Silampos and CELAR), springs and mattresses. Among its most well-known companies are Simoldes and Lactogal
.

Transportation

It has connection by the following

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport
/Oporto's airport.

Sports

Its most prominent

União Desportiva Oliveirense (U.D.O.) which fields teams in football, basketball and ring hockey as well as an affiliated cycling team that holds a UCI Continental team licence, the Kelly–Simoldes–UDO (UCI team code: KSU). One other club is Futebol Clube Pinheirense (FCP), it is a club dedicated mostly to football. They have a kids school in partnership with Benfica
from Lisbon.

Demographics

Population of Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality (1801–2008)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2008
16 943 16 899 29 506 33 072 46 263 62 821 66 846 70 721 71 210

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 12 civil parishes (

Cities and towns

There is one city in the municipality: Oliveira de Azeméis. The towns are

Marian sanctuary

In the centre there is a Marian sanctuary, La-Salette. It was built in order to honor the apparitions of

La Salette, Isère, in France. The sanctuary contains the finger of a burglar that tried to steal some precious artifacts (one night a guard shot a burglar with his shotgun and only hit his finger). The finger lies inside an alcohol
jar right in front of the chapel.

Notable people

Carlos da Silva Costa, 2015

Sport

References

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  3. ^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, pages 552 83-84" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  4. ^ Abel Pera, IMDb Database retrieved 26 October 2021.
  5. ^ Manuel Pêra, IMDb Database retrieved 26 October 2021.

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