Oliveira do Bairro

Oliveira do Bairro
Municipality
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Coordinates: 40°31′N 8°30′W / 40.517°N 8.500°WCoordinates: 40°31′N 8°30′W / 40.517°N 8.500°W
Country	Portugal
Region	Centro
Subregion	Baixo Vouga
Intermunic. comm.	Região de Aveiro
District	Aveiro
Parishes	4
Government
• President	Mário Oliveira (PSD)
Area
• Total	87.32 km^2 (33.71 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	23,028
• Density	260/km^2 (680/sq mi)
Time zone	WET/WEST (UTC+0/+1)
Website	http://www.cm-olb.pt/

Oliveira do Bairro (Portuguese pronunciation: [oliˈvɐjɾɐ 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 Mário João da Silva Oliveira, elected by the Social Democratic Party. 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: Lamballe, France and Benguela, Angola

References

1. Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. Direção-Geral do Território
3. UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)
4. Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, pages 552 84-85" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 July 2014.

External links

• Town Hall official website