Barrô 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 Por ...

'' ("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, Portugal. It had an area of 7 km2 and in 2011 had a population of 1836.

History

In 2013 it was merged with Aguada de Baixo to form the new freguesia of

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 . ...

Places

* Barrô * Carqueijo

Demography

File: Aveiro 11.png, Population from 1864 to 2011 File: Aveiro 12.GIF, Variation of population from 1864 to 2011

Politics

Elections

As of 31 December 2011, it had 1722 registered voters. In the 2009 local elections for the Assembly of the Freguesia, there were 1711 registered voters, with 1013 (59.21%) voting and 698 (40.79%) abstaining. The

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got 527 (57,28%) of the votes, electing six members of the Assembly and the

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...

got 368 votes (36.33%), electing three 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 o ...

of Barrô as part of the archpriestship of Águeda. There is a church and a chapel in this former freguesia, both from the 17th century.

References

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