Paredes, Portugal
Paredes | |
---|---|
UTC±00:00 (WET) | |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
Website | http://www.cm-paredes.pt |
Paredes (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐˈɾeðɨʃ] ⓘ) is a city and a municipality in Porto District, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 86,854,[1] in an area of 156.76 km².[2]
Currently, Paredes Municipality contains four cities: Paredes,
São Salvador de Lordelo and Gandra, being the Portuguese
municipality with the most cities.
Paredes has a total of 18 parishes. The municipality is bordered on the north by the
Valongo
. The municipality was created in 1836.
Demographics
Population of Paredes Municipality (1849–2008) | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
17 286 | 20 911 | 26 304 | 43 388 | 67 693 | 72 999 | 83 376 | 86 854 |
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 18 civil parishes (freguesias):[3]
Notable people
Sport
- António Araújo (1923–2001) a former footballer with 151 club caps and 9 for Portugal
- Maria Helena Cunha (born 1943) a Portuguese gymnast, competed in 5 events at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Jaime Pacheco (born 1958) a former footballer with 305 club caps and 25 for Portugal
- Rui Barros (born 1965) a Portuguese former footballer with 409 club caps and 36 for Portugal
- Adalberto Ribeiro (born 1969), known as Adalberto, a retired footballer with 380 club caps
- Ângelo Varela (born 1980) a Portuguese former footballer with over 480 club caps
- Mário Sérgio (born 1981) a Portuguese former footballer with over 450 club caps
- Pedro Ribeiro (born 1983) a Portuguese former footballer with 387 club caps
- Hélder Barbosa (born 1987) a Portuguese footballer with over 330 club caps and 1 for Portugal
- Fábio Pacheco (born 1988) a Portuguese footballer with over 300 club caps.
- Vasco Rocha (born 1989) a Portuguese footballer with over 350 club caps.
References
- ^ "Statistics Portugal - Web Portal". www.ine.pt.
- ^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, pages 552 88-89" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 July 2014.
External links
Media related to Paredes at Wikimedia Commons