Pousa is a Portuguese '' freguesia'' ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Barcelos. The population in 2011 was 2,272,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 6.63 km². Pousa is located in between the two sub-cities (Barcelos and Braga) in the northern region of Portugal. Many of its residents work in the sub-cities as they are within 30 minutes reach using motorised transport. It is surrounded by a beautiful mainstream river along with mountains filled with pine/oak trees. Forest fires are rare but not overlooked by authorities as there is at least one every year. Pousa has the ''Auto Estrada Porto-Valença'' running across through its border of its neighbour (Graca).

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Freguesias of Barcelos, Portugal {{braga-geo-stub