Oliveira do Bairro

Municipality in Centro, Portugal

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Coordinates: 40°31′N 8°30′W / 40.517°N 8.500°W / 40.517; -8.500Country

PortugalRegionCentroIntermunic. comm.Região de AveiroDistrictAveiroParishes4Government

• PresidentDuarte Novo (CDS–PP)Area

• Total87.32 km² (33.71 sq mi)Population

(2011)

• Total23,028 • Density260/km² (680/sq mi)Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET) • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)Local holidayAscension Day
date variesWebsitehttp://www.cm-olb.pt/

Oliveira do Bairro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔliˈvɐjɾɐ ðu ˈβajʁu] ^ⓘ) is a town and a municipality in the district of Aveiro in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,729,^[1] in an area of 335.27 km².^[2] It had 16,994 eligible voters in 2006. The town itself had a population of 3,077 in 2001.^[3]

The municipality is in the Bairrada area. The present Mayor is Duarte Novo. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day.

Demographics

Inhabitants (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2004	2011
1939	5086	9540	14362	16699	17517	18660	21164	22365	23028

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes (freguesias):^[4]

Bustos, Troviscal e Mamarrosa
Oiã
Oliveira do Bairro
Palhaça

Cultural institutions

União Filarmónica do Troviscal, Troviscal - Aveiro, conducted by André Granjo

Twinning cities

Oliveira do Bairro is twinned with two cities:

Benguela, Angola and ^{[citation needed]}

Lamballe, France

Notable people

Ilda Figueiredo (born 1948 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party
João Tomás (born 1975) a Portuguese retired footballer with 378 club caps and 4 for Portugal

References

^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
^ UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)
^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, pages 552 84-85" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 July 2014.