Vagos
Sign in to saveVagos () is a town and a municipality in Aveiro District, belonging to Centro Region of Portugal. The district capital, Aveiro, is its nearest large city. Its population in 2011 was 22,851 in an area of 164.92 km2, and it had 17,204 eligible voters. It is part of the intermunicipal community of Região de Aveiro.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Vagos
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-vgs1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.flag_border
- no
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- Brasão de Vagos.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Vagos.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Vagos
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Interactive map of Vagos
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Centro
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Região de Aveiro
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Aveiro
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- Silvério Regalado
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 164.92
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 22,851
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 8
- Portuguese subdivision.holiday
- Monday after the Whit Sunday
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 22851
- Area
- 165
- Official website
- www.cm-vagos.pt
- Image
- Vagueira - Vagos.JPG
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- Vagos
- postal code
- 3840
- P8168
- postcondition
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Vagos () is a town and a municipality in Aveiro District, belonging to Centro Region of Portugal. The district capital, Aveiro, is its nearest large city. Its population in 2011 was 22,851 in an area of 164.92 km2, and it had 17,204 eligible voters. It is part of the intermunicipal community of Região de Aveiro.
In Roman times, the municipality was called Vacus, and had both coastline and large sand dune valleys just east of its center. Increases in sedimentation and sand drifts leveled and lengthened these distances. According to António Gomes da Rocha Madail and other writers, there is tradition among the native population that they are descendants of the seafaring salt farmers of Phoenicia.
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