Arcos de Valdevez
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municipality of Portugal
Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Norte
- Intermunic comm
- Alto Minho
- District
- Viana do Castelo
- President
- Francisco Rodrigues de Araújo ( PSD )
- Total
- 447.60 km (172.82 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 47 m (154 ft)
- Highest elevation
- 1,416 m (4,646 ft)
- Density
- 51.043/km (132.20/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Patron
- São Paio
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Minho
- Contains
- Jolda (São Paio)
- Population
- 22847
- Area
- 447.6
- Elevation
- 42
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Monção
- Official website
- www.cmav.pt
- Image
- Arcos de Valdevez Igreja da Lapa View.jpg
- Dialing code
- 258
- Patron saint
- Pelagius of Cordova
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- Commons category
- Arcos de Valdevez
- twinned administrative body
- Antony
- topic's main category
- Category:Arcos de Valdevez
- postal code
- 4970
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- P8168
- Gerald of Wales
- contact page URL
- www.cmav.pt/pages/1870
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +351-258-520-500
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Encyclopedic overview
Arcos de Valdevez ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaɾkuʒ ðɨ ˌvaldɨˈveʃ] ) is a municipality along the northern frontier of Portugal and Galicia (Spain). The population in 2011 was 22,847, in an area of 447.60 km. It is the largest municipality in area of the district of Viana do Castelo.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arcos de Valdevez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.