Baleizão

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Baleizão
Coat of arms of Baleizão
Baleizão is located in Portugal
Baleizão
Baleizão
Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 38°01′34″N 7°42′50″W / 38.026°N 7.714°W / 38.026; -7.714Coordinates: 38°01′34″N 7°42′50″W / 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)

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.

References

  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.