Alfundão

Alfundão is a former civil parish in the municipality of Ferreira do Alentejo, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Alfundão e Peroguarda.[1]

Alfundão
Alfundão
Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 38°7′10″N 8°3′44″W
Country Portugal
RegionAlentejo
Intermunic. comm.Baixo Alentejo
DistrictBeja
MunicipalityFerreira do Alentejo
Area
  Total51.90 km2 (20.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2001)
  Total998
  Density19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Postal code
7900
Websitewww.alfundao.freguesias.pt

Alfundão has an area of 51.96 km² and 863 inhabitants (2011). Its population density was 16.6 inhab / km². At the eastern end of Ferreira do Alentejo, Alfundão delimits this municipality from those of Cuba and Beja.

It was the seat of an extinct parish in 2013, as part of a national administrative reform, to form, together with Peroguarda, a new parish called União das Freguesia de Alfundão and Peroguarda of which it is the headquarters.[2]

References

  1. Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 49" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. "Statistics Portugal - Web Portal". www.ine.pt. Retrieved 2020-10-06.


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