Monção (; ) is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 19,230,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
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Climate

Monção has a

hot-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...

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: ''Csa'') with mild, rainy winters and hot dry summers. Although short, the summer season is dry enough to avoid being classified has a

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ...

or an

oceanic climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen climate classification, Köppen classification represented as ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of co ...

like nearby

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Notable people

Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro (5 November 1846, in Pias, Monção – 14 May 1918, in Lisbon; ) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese army officer and politician. He was a career military officer reaching the position of General, also graduate ...

(1846 in Pias, Monção – 1918) an army officer and politician; 10th Count of Pimenta de Castro * José Gomes Temporão (born 1951) a Brazilian public health physician and Minister of Health of Brazil, 2007 to 2010. * Fernando Vilar (born 1954 in Lara, Monção) a Uruguayan journalist and news anchor.

Population

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 24 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Abedim * Anhões e Luzio * Barbeita * Barroças e Taias * Bela * Cambeses * Ceivães e Badim * Lara * Longos Vales * Mazedo e Cortes * Merufe * Messegães, Valadares e Sá * Monção e Troviscoso * Moreira * Pias * Pinheiros * Podame * Portela * Riba de Mouro * Sago, Lordelo e Parada * Segude * Tangil * Troporiz e Lapela * Trute

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