Quepem
Sign in to saveQuepem (Kepem) is a town with a municipal council in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. The town is the administrative headquarters of the Quepem taluka (sub-district).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Quepem
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Goa#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Goa, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Goa
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- South Goa
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Taluka
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Quepem taluka
- Settlement.established_date
- AD 1787
- Settlement.founder
- Deão Jose Paulo de Almeida
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 21
- Settlement.population_total
- 14 795
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Quepem (Kepem) is a town with a municipal council in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. The town is the administrative headquarters of the Quepem taluka (sub-district).
== History == The town was established by a Portuguese nobleman Deão Jose Paulo de Almeida, the dean (Deão) of the church in AD 1787 after he moved there just five years after the conquest of Quepem sub-district by the Portuguese. He built his famous Palácio do Deão, followed by a public market, hospital, a church and other facilities for the benefit of the inhabitants through his own expense. He was later awarded the unofficial title of Barão de Quepem by then viceroy D. Manuel Francisco Zacarias de Portugal e Castro.