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Amares

Official website (https://www.cm-amares.pt/)

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Also known as Amares Municipality

Amares (), officially Town of Amares (), is a municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km2.

Key facts

Portuguese subdivision.type
municipality
Portuguese subdivision.name
Amares
Portuguese subdivision.official_name
Town of Amares
Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
Pt-amr1.png
Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
AMR.png
Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
N. Sra. da Abadia - Amares.JPG
Portuguese subdivision.mapframe
yes
Portuguese subdivision.mapframe zoom
10
Portuguese subdivision.region
Norte
Portuguese subdivision.CIM
Cávado
Portuguese subdivision.district
Braga
Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
PSD
Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
Manuel Moreira
Portuguese subdivision.area_total
81.95
Portuguese subdivision.population_total
18889
Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
2011
Portuguese subdivision.parishes
16
Portuguese subdivision.website
http://www.cm-amares.pt/

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

Município de Amares

O concelho de Amares é uma viagem pela história, na medida em que são muitos os monumentos que retratam épocas documentadas que se relacionam directamente com os grandes momentos da história de Portugal.

cm-amares.pt

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Encyclopedic overview

4 sections
Contents
  • Demographics
  • Parishes
  • Notable people
  • References

Amares (), officially Town of Amares (), is a municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km2.

Amares limits to the north and northeast with the municipality of Terras de Bouro, to the southeast with Vieira do Minho and Póvoa de Lanhoso, to the south with Braga and to the northwest with Vila Verde.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amares” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations