Esposende
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Esposende () is a city and a municipality in Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 34,254, in an area of 95.41 km2. The city itself (the parish Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra) had a population of 9,197 in 2001. It gained city status on 2 July 1993. The present Mayor is Fernando Couto Cepa, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is August 19. It is located on the Portuguese Way of the Camino de Santiago.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-eps3.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- EPS1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe
- yes
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe zoom
- 10
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe point
- none
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Norte
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Cávado
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Braga
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- Guilherme Emílio
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 95.41
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 34,254
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 9
- Portuguese subdivision.website
- http://www.cm-esposende.pt/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Município de Estarreja
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Minho
- Contains
- Forjães
- Population
- 35552
- Area
- 95.41
- Time zone
- Western European Time
- Body of water
- Cávado River
- Shares border with
- Viana do Castelo
- Official website
- www.cm-esposende.pt
- Image
- Museu de Esposende.JPG
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- Commons category
- Esposende
- category for people born here
- Q26246863
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Esposende
- topic's main category
- Category:Esposende
- postal code
- 4740
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- P8168
- adlocutio
- inception
- 1572-00-00
- twinned administrative body
- Ozoir-la-Ferrière
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- Economy
- Parishes
- Photos
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Esposende () is a city and a municipality in Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 34,254, in an area of 95.41 km2. The city itself (the parish Esposende, Marinhas e Gandra) had a population of 9,197 in 2001. It gained city status on 2 July 1993. The present Mayor is Fernando Couto Cepa, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is August 19. It is located on the Portuguese Way of the Camino de Santiago.
==Demographics== {| class="wikitable" ! colspan="9" | Population of Esposende Municipality (1801–2008) |- bgcolor="#C0C0C0" | align="center" | 1801 | align="center" | 1849 | align="center" | 1900 | align="center" | 1930 | align="center" | 1960 | align="center" | 1981 | align="center" | 1991 | align="center" | 2001 | align="center" | 2011 |- | align="center" | 4 157 | align="center" | 12 545 | align="center" | 15 161 | align="center" | 19 452 | align="center" | 23 966 | align="center" | 28 652 | align="center" | 30 101 | align="center" | 33 325 | align="center" | 34 254 |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esposende” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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