Baleizão

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]

Baleizão
Coat of arms
Baleizão
Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 38.026°N 7.714°W / 38.026; -7.714
Country Portugal
RegionAlentejo
Intermunic. comm.Baixo Alentejo
DistrictBeja
MunicipalityBeja
Area
  Total139.74 km2 (53.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
  Total902
  Density6.5/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)

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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