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Tarouca

Coordinates:41°01′N7°46′W/ 41.017°N 7.767°W/41.017; -7.767
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Tarouca
Flag of Tarouca
Coat of arms of Tarouca
Coordinates:41°01′N7°46′W/ 41.017°N 7.767°W/41.017; -7.767
CountryPortugal
RegionNorte
Intermunic. comm.Douro
DistrictViseu
Parishes7
Government
PresidentMário Ferreira(PS)
Area
• Total100.08 km2(38.64 sq mi)
Population
(2011)
• Total8,046
• Density80/km2(210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC±00:00(WET)
• Summer (DST)UTC+01:00(WEST)

Tarouca(Portuguese pronunciation:[tɐˈɾokɐ]) is amunicipalityand a city inViseu DistrictinNorte RegionandDouro Subregionin Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,046,[1]in an area of 100.08 km2.[2]

The city of Tarouca proper has about 3,400 residents; it was promoted to city in December 2004. The present mayor is Mário Caetano Teixeira Ferreira, elected by theSocialist Party.The municipal holiday is June 29.

Parishes[edit]

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):[3]

Notable people[edit]

  • José Leite de Vasconcelos(1858 in Ucanha, Tarouca – 1941) a Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author who wrote extensively on Portuguese philology and prehistory.

References[edit]

  1. ^Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ^"Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país".Archived fromthe originalon 2018-11-05.Retrieved2018-11-05.
  3. ^Diário da República."Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 118"(pdf)(in Portuguese).Retrieved31 July2014.

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