Type: | parish |
Official Name: | Baleizão |
Region: | Alentejo |
Cim: | Baixo Alentejo |
District: | Beja |
Municipality: | Beja |
Coordinates: | 38.026°N -7.714°W |
Area Total: | 139.74 |
Population Total: | 902 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902,[1] in an area of 139.74 km2.[2]
The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.