Barreiro
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Barreiro is a municipality
in Portugal
with a total area of 32 km² (12 sq mi) and a total population of 79,047 inhabitants. It contains the town of Barreiro.
The municipality is composed of 8 parishes (freguesias), and is located in Setúbal District.
The present Mayor is Carlos Humberto Carvalho, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition
.
The municipal holiday is June 28.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
with a total area of 32 km² (12 sq mi) and a total population of 79,047 inhabitants. It contains the town of Barreiro.
The municipality is composed of 8 parishes (freguesias), and is located in Setúbal District.
The present Mayor is Carlos Humberto Carvalho, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition
Unitarian Democratic Coalition
The Democratic Unity Coalition is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party "The Greens"...
.
The municipal holiday is June 28.
Population
| Population growth (1801–2004) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2004 |
| 2 425 | 3 384 | 7 738 | 21 030 | 35 088 | 88 052 | 85 768 | 79 012 | 78 992 |
Parishes
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