Santo Onofre is one of the sixteen civil parishes

Parish (subnational entity)

A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. In the British Isles it is known as a civil parish to distinguish it from the ecclesiastical parish.-External links:* Editorial in The Guardian, 2011-05-16....

 (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...

s) that make up the municipality

Municipality

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 (município

Municipalities of Portugal

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or concelho

Concelho

Concelho , in the Portuguese language, is the word municipality, when referring to the territory. The word município is used when municipality means the organ of State...

) of Caldas da Rainha

Caldas da Rainha

Caldas da Rainha is a city in western central Portugal. The city serves as the seat of the larger municipality of the same name and is the seat of the Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste...

, Portugal

Portugal

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. The parish has an area of 9.2 km² and 10,775 residents.

Along with Nossa Senhora do Pópulo

Nossa Senhora do Pópulo

Nossa Senhora do Pópulo is one of the sixteen civil parishes that make up the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. The parish has an area of 12.3 km² and 14,453 residents....

, Santo Onofre is one of the two parishes which make up the city of Caldas da Rainha

Caldas da Rainha

Caldas da Rainha is a city in western central Portugal. The city serves as the seat of the larger municipality of the same name and is the seat of the Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste...

. Outside the city proper, the municipality of Caldas da Rainha contains an additional fourteen parishes.