municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
Baixo Vouga Subregion
Baixo Vouga () is a former Portuguese subregion integrated in the Centro Region. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision.Instituto Nacional de Estatística /ref> in an area of 147.70 km2. It had 42,582 eligible voters (2006). The municipality includes two cities: Ovar (16,849 inhabitants in 2001) and Esmoriz (11,020 inhabitants in 2001).
The present Mayor is Salvador Malheiro, elected by the
Portuguese Social Democratic Party
The Social Democratic Party ( pt, Partido Social Democrata, ; PSD) is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal. Commonly known by its colloquial initials PSD, on ballot papers its initials appear as its official form PPD/PSD, with the ...
. The municipal holiday is July 25.
Ovar is home to the football team A.D. Ovarense who play at the
Estádio Marques da Silva
Parque Marques da Silva is a multi-use stadium in Ovar, Aveiro, Portugal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of A.D. Ovarense. It is also the home to Ovarense's U19s, U17s, U15s and B teams. The stadium was ...
There are two cities and three towns in the municipality.
* Esmoriz (city)
* Ovar (city)
* Cortegaça (town)
* São João (town)
* Válega (town)
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (''
freguesias
''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 ...
''):
* Cortegaça
* Esmoriz
* Maceda
* Ovar, São João, Arada e São Vicente de Pereira
* Válega
Notable people
*
Santa Camarão
José Soares Santa (25 December 1902 – 5 April 1968), known as Santa Camarão ("''Camarão''" being a family nickname meaning Shrimp in English) or Zé Santa in Portugal, and as Jose Santa or Joe Santa in the United States, was a Portuguese b ...
(1902–1968) a Portuguese boxer who was 2.02 m (6 ft 8ins) tall.
* Luís Filipe Menezes (born 1953) a Portuguese politician.
* Miguel Bruno (born 1971) a former Portuguese professional footballer with 286 club caps
*
Clarisse Cruz
Clarisse Cruz (born 9 July 1978 in Ovar) is a Portuguese runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
Competitions
At the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics she won the silver medal in the Women's 3000 metres steeplechase ...
(born 1978) a Portuguese 3000 metres steeplechase runner, competed in the
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...
* Edgar Sá (born 1979) a Portuguese retired footballer with 510 club caps
* Roberto Reis (born 1980) a Portuguese volleyball player