Baleizão Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xlang=en&xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0005889&contexto=pi&selTab=tab0 Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. Web site: Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país . 2018-11-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181105172426/http://www.dgterritorio.pt/cartografia_e_geodesia/cartografia/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal_caop_/caop__download_/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal___versao_2017__em_vigor_/ . 2018-11-05 . dead .