Aguada de Baixo was a

freguesia ''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...

("civil parish") in

Águeda Municipality Águeda () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. According to the Portuguese 2011 census, the municipality of Águeda had 47,729 inhabitants, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 14,504 (2001 data), while the remainder is distri ...

Aveiro District Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Po ...

, Portugal. It had an area of 4.7 km2 and in 2011 had a population of 1373. In 2013 it was merged with Barrô as part of an administrative reorganization of the territory and formed the União das Freguesias de

Barrô e Aguada de Baixo Barrô e Aguada de Baixo is a ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") in Águeda Municipality Águeda () is a city and a municipality in Portugal. According to the Portuguese 2011 census, the municipality of Águeda had 47,729 inhabitants, in an area of . ...

Geography

It was the southernmost freguesia of the municipality, and it bordered the Águeda freguesias of Barrô and

Aguada de Cima Aguada de Cima is a civil parish in the Centro Region municipality of Águeda, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,013, in an area of 28.39 km2. It contains the localities Aguadalte, Almas da Areosa, Bustelo, Cabeço Grande, Cabeço da ...

and the municipalities of Anadia e

Oliveira do Bairro Oliveira do Bairro () is a town and a municipality in the district of Aveiro in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,729, in an area of 335.27 km2. It had 16,994 eligible voters in 2006. The town itself had a population of 3,077 in 2001. T ...

Places

* Aguadela * Alto da Póvoa * Bicarenho * Landiosa * Passadouro * Povoa da Raposa * Povoa do Nascido * Vale do Grou * Vale do Mouro * Vidoeiro

Demography

File: Aveiro 05.png, Population from 1864 to 2011 File: Aveiro 06.GIF, Variation of population from 1864 to 2011

Politics

Elections

As of 31 December 2011, it had 1532 registered voters. In the 2009 local elections for the Assembly of the Freguesia, there were 1598 registered voters, with 920 (57,57%) voting and 678 (42,43%) abstaining. The Lista Independente de Aguada de Baixo (LIAB) got 527 (57,28%) of the votes, electing five members of the Assembly and the

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(PS) got 364 votes (39,57%), electing four members of the Assembly.

Religion

The Portuguese Roman Catholic Church's

Diocese of Aveiro The Portuguese Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro ( la, Dioecesis Aveirensis) has existed since 1938. In that year it was formed as territories taken from the historical diocese of Coimbra, diocese of Porto and diocese of Viseu were combined. It i ...

includes the

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

of Aguada de Baixo as part of the

archpriest The ecclesiastical title of archpriest or archpresbyter belongs to certain priests with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches and may be somewhat analogous ...

ship of Águeda.

Notes

''Article based on the

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article Aguada de Baixo.''

References

Former parishes of Águeda 2013 disestablishments in Portugal Populated places disestablished in 2013 {{Aveiro-geo-stub