Reis Magos is a beautiful and scenic village located on the northern bank of the Mandovi River

River

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, gazing the capital city, Panjim, Goa

Goa

Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

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India

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. The village is famous for two of Goa’s very famous structures; the Reis Magos Fort and the Reis Magos Church - the first church of Bardez

Bardez

Bardez is the name of a region and taluka in North Goa. The name is credited to the Brahmin immigrants who migrated to the Konkan via Magadha in Gangetic India from Aryavarta, in the north-western part of the Indian sub-continent. Bardez or more properly Bara desh means "twelve countries"...

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Reis Magos Fort

Predating Fort Aguada

Fort Aguada

Fort Aguada and its lighthouse is a well-preserved seventeenth-century Portuguese fort standing in Goa, India, on Sinquerim Beach, overlooking the Arabian Sea.-Origins and history:...

 by half a century, a second, smaller fort that crowns the headland jutting into the narrowest stretch of the Mandovi, almost facing capital city Panjim, is the Reis Magos Fort.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Reis Magos had a population of 8698. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Reis Magos has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 73%. In Reis Magos, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Reis Magos is the Portuguese

Portuguese language

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 name for the Three Wise Men of the Bible

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