Manadas
Sign in to saveManadas, once locally known as Santa Bárbara, is a civil parish in the municipality of Velas in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 374, in an area of 11.20 km2.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Manadas
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Fajã das Almas, Aspecto do povoado e da costa, Manadas, Velas, Ilha de São Jorge, Açores.JPG
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- A coastal perspective of the Fajã das Almas in the parish of Manadas
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Azores
- Portuguese subdivision.island
- São Jorge
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Velas
- Portuguese subdivision.established_date
- Settlement: c. 1559
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 11.20
- Portuguese subdivision.elevation_m
- 114
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 374
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 9850-026
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 292
- Portuguese subdivision.patron
- Santa Bárbara
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Manadas, once locally known as Santa Bárbara, is a civil parish in the municipality of Velas in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 374, in an area of 11.20 km2.
==History== 150px|left|thumb|The parochial Church of Santa Bárbara, located on the southern coast. Santa Bárbara was one of the older parishes on São Jorge, probably founded before 1550, when 250 inhabitants lived in the parish and when it began appearing in documents during the 16th century. In 1568, it was included in a listing of six religious parishes that occupied the island of São Jorge. At the time of its founding, it included an area vastly larger than its current borders with the communities of Urzelina, Terreiros and Fajã das Almas lying within its borders.