Lagoaça e Fornos

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Lagoaça e Fornos
Civil parish
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Lagoaça e Fornos
Coordinates: 41°11′N6°44′W / 41.19°N 6.73°W / 41.19; -6.73 Coordinates: 41°11′N6°44′W / 41.19°N 6.73°W / 41.19; -6.73
Country Portugal
Region Norte
Intermunic. comm. Douro
District Bragança
Municipality Freixo de Espada à Cinta
Area
  Total 64.27 km2 (24.81 sq mi)
Population (2011)
  Total 617
  Density 9.6/km2 (25/sq mi)

Lagoaça e Fornos is a civil parish in the municipality of Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Lagoaça and Fornos. [1] The population in 2011 was 617, [2] in an area of 64.27 km². [3]

Freixo de Espada à Cinta Municipality in Norte, Portugal

Freixo de Espada à Cinta, sometimes erroneously Freixo de Espada Cinta, is a municipality in the northeastern region of Portugal, near the border with Spain, along the Douro River Valley. The population in 2011 was 3,780, in an area of 244.14 km2.

Fornos is a former civil parish in the municipality of Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Lagoaça e Fornos. It is located 17 kilometres south of the municipal seat, in the northeast of Portugal. In 2001 its population was less than 418 inhabitants, in an area of 28.67 km² bordering the Spanish border along the Douro River.

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References

  1. Diário da República . "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 51" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  2. Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal
  3. Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país