Barreiro

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Barreiro (pron. ) is a municipality and city in Portugal with a total area of 32.0 km² and a total population of 79,047 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of 40,859.»UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)

The municipality is composed of 8 parishes (freguesias), and is located in the district of Setúbal.

The present Mayor is Carlos Humberto Carvalho, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition.

The municipal holiday is June 28.

Population growth

{| ! colspan="9" | Population growth (1801 – 2004) |- bgcolor="#C0C0C0" | align="center" | 1801 | align="center" | 1849 | align="center" | 1900 | align="center" | 1930 | align="center" | 1960 | align="center" | 1981 | align="center" | 1991 | align="center" | 2001 | align="center" | 2004 |- | align="center" | 2 425 | align="center" | 3 384 | align="center" | 7 738 | align="center" | 21 030 | align="center" | 35 088 | align="center" | 88 052 | align="center" | 85 768 | align="center" | 79 012 | align="center" | 78 992 |}

Parishes

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  • Alto do Seixalinho
  • Barreiro
  • Coina
  • Lavradio
  • Palhais
  • Santo André(Quinta da Lomba)
  • Santo António da Charneca
  • Verderena
|}

Twin Towns - Sister Cities

Barreiro is twinned with:

  • — Łódź in Poland (since 1996) ]] and )}} © 2007 UMŁ}}
  • — Stara Zagora in Bulgaria

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