Sertã
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Sertã is a municipality 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 446.7 km² and a total population of 16,208 inhabitants.

The municipality is composed of 14 parishes and is located in Castelo Branco District.

The present mayor is José Paulo Barata Farinha, elected by the Socialist Party
Portuguese Socialist Party
The Portuguese Socialist Party was a political party in Portugal.The party was founded in 1875. During its initial phase the party was heavily influenced by Proudhonism, and rejected revolutionary Marxism. The party suffered constant factional struggles...

.

The municipal holiday is the June 24.
Population of Sertã (1801 – 2004)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2004
10235 13456 20380 24057 27997 21503 18199 16720 16208

General information

Local sports club: Sertanense Futebol Clube
Sertanense
Sertanense Futebol Clube , formerly Sertanense Foot-ball Club, is a Portuguese football club based in Sertã. Founded in 1934, it currently plays in the Portuguese Third Division, holding home games at Campo de Jogos Dr...

 (mainly devoted to soccer, playing (2004-2005) the 3rd Division Championship).

Local newspaper: A Comarca da Sertã
A Comarca da Sertã
A Comarca da Sertã is a local newspaper published weekly in Sertã, Portugal.Its first publication was on 9 May 1936, led by Eduardo Barata da Silva Corrêa. Later it was developed by Amaro Vicente Martins. it is directed by João Miguel Barata Martins....

 (weekly)

Nearby is the parish of Cernache de Bonjardim
Cernache de Bonjardim
Cernache do Bonjardim is a parish in central Portugal. It is often wrongly spelled Sernache do Bonjardim ....

, where Nuno Álvares Pereira
Nuno Álvares Pereira
Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. , also spelled Nun'Álvares Pereira, was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile...

 was born.

Parishes

The municipality includes the following parishes (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
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Parish name Population Area km² Densidade h/km²
Cabeçudo 999 9,95 100,4
Carvalhal 613 9,84 62,3
Castelo 1 163 24,62 47,2
Cernache de Bonjardim
Cernache de Bonjardim
Cernache do Bonjardim is a parish in central Portugal. It is often wrongly spelled Sernache do Bonjardim ....

3 283 72,06 45,6
Cumeada 573 23,10 24,8
Ermida 301 27,98 10,8
Figueiredo 286 14,70 19,5
Marmeleiro 304 29,70 10,2
Nesperal 335 7,74 43,3
Palhais 346 22,04 15,7
Pedrógão Pequeno 916 42,75 21,4
Sertã 5 500 81,71 67,3
Troviscal 1 134 54,06 21,0
Várzea dos Cavaleiros 968 32,88 29,4
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