Baleizão
Appearance
Baleizão | |
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Settlement | |
Coordinates: 38°01′34″N 7°42′50″W / 38.026°N 7.714°W | |
Country | Portugal |
Area | |
• Total | 139.74 km2 (53.95 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 902 |
• Density | 6.5/km2 (17/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC±00:00 (WET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
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.
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