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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Centro
- Intermunic comm
- Beiras e Serra da Estrela
- District
- Castelo Branco
- President
- [Paulo Fernandes] ( PSD )
- Total
- 700.20 km (270.35 sq mi)
- Density
- 37.859/km (98.055/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Local holiday
- September 15
- Website
- www .cm-fundao .pt
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Município do Fundão
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Beiras e Serra da Estrela
- Contains
- Alcaide
- Population
- 29213
- Area
- 700.2
- Elevation
- 497
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Zêzere River
- Shares border with
- Castelo Branco
- Main subject
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- Official website
- www.cm-fundao.pt
- Image
- Vista fundao 21-10-2007.JPG
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- Commons category
- Fundão
- twinned administrative body
- Haapsalu City
- topic's main category
- Category:Fundão
- postal code
- 6230
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +351-275-779-060
- fax number
- +351-275-779-079
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Encyclopedic overview
Fundão ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fũˈdɐ̃w] ), officially the City of Fundão (Portuguese: Cidade de Fundão), is a city and a municipality in the Castelo Branco District in Portugal. Fundão proper is an old city with 8,369 inhabitants in 2001, situated at the point where the slope of the Gardunha range meets the Cova da Beira plains, 500 metres above sea level. The municipality population in 2021 was 26,509. The area size is 700.20 km. The city of Covilhã is about 20 kilometers to the north by road. The municipality of Fundão is subdivided into 23 civil parishes known as freguesias in Portuguese.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fundão” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.