Mêda

Municipality in Centro, Portugal

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Coordinates: 40°58′N 7°16′W / 40.967°N 7.267°W / 40.967; -7.267Country

PortugalRegionCentroIntermunic. comm.Beiras e Serra da EstrelaDistrictGuardaParishes11Government

• PresidentJoão Leal Pinto (PSD)Area

• Total286.05 km² (110.44 sq mi)Population

(2011)

• Total5,202 • Density18/km² (47/sq mi)Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET) • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)Local holidayNovember 11Websitehttp://www.cm-meda.pt

Mêda (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmeðɐ] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,202,^[1] in an area of 286.05 km².^[2] The city of Mêda proper had a population of 2,004 in 2001.^[3] It was promoted to city in December 2004.

Municipality

The municipality is located in Guarda District, Centro Region, Beira Interior Norte Subregion. The present Mayor is Anselmo Sousa. The municipal holiday is November 11.

Main monument:

Marialva Castle/Castelo de Marialva.

Also nearby in the municipalities of Foz Côa and Pinhel is the: Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley, a World Heritage site.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 11 civil parishes (freguesias):^[4]

Aveloso
Barreira
Coriscada
Dipsy
Marialva
Mêda, Outeiro de Gatos e Fonte Longa
Poço do Canto
Prova e Casteição
Rabaçal
Ranhados
Vale Flor, Carvalhal e Pai Penela

References

^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
^ UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)
^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 69" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 July 2014.