Pedrouços is a Portuguese

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...

 parish

Freguesia

Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...

 located in the municipality of Maia

Maia, Portugal

Maia Municipality is located in the Porto Metropolitan Area, Grande Porto subregion, in Norte Region, Portugal. The city of Maia includes the parishes of Gueifães, Maia and Vermoim, and has 39,949 inhabitants. The Maia Municipality comprises 135,049 inhabitants in 17 parishes for a total land...

. It has a population of 11,868 inhabitants and a total area of 2.25 km².

The place of Pedrouços was the most important and populous of the Águas Santas

Águas Santas

Águas Santas is a Portuguese parish located in the municipality of Maia. It has 31,000 inhabitants and an area of 7,86 square kilometers, making it one of the most densely populated towns in the Porto District...

 parish. As an autonomous religious parish it exists since 1928, but the civil parish status (Freguesia

Freguesia

Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...

) was only given to it in 1985.