Serra do Bouro is a former
civil parish
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in the municipality of
Caldas da Rainha
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, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish
Caldas da Rainha — Santo Onofre e Serra do Bouro. The civil parish had an area of and had a population of 703 at the 2011
census
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. It the least populous ''freguesia'' of the municipality.
Localities (''lugares'') within Serra do Bouro include
Cidade,
Cabeço da Vela,
Casais Antunes,
Casais da Boavista,
Casais da Cidade,
Casais da Espinheira,
Casal do Celão,
Espinheira,
Granja,
Zambujeiro.
Serra do Bouro has cliffs overlooking the
Atlantic Ocean
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.
Principal activities of the inhabitants include agriculture and civil construction.
Serra do Bouro once belonged to the municipality of
Óbidos, but the ''freguesia'' was transferred to Caldas da Rainha as this latter municipality developed economically. Two other ''freguesias'' of Caldas da Rainha were once part of Serra do Bouro, but were elevated to the status of ''freguesia'' themselves:
Foz do Arelho in 1919 and
Nadadouro in 1957.
History
The area of Serra, as the locals know it, was first inhabited by the Veiga family in the 16th century. This freguesia changed little throughout much time. Electricity and municipal water reached Serra in the 1980s.
Throughout the 1900s most of the area's inhabitants emigrated to other countries, particularly to the
United States
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. One of the greatest concentrations of Serra do Bouro descendants is in the area of
Perth Amboy
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,
New Jersey
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''(sister city to
Caldas da Rainha
Caldas da Rainha () is a medium-sized Portuguese city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the district of Leiria. The city serves as the seat of the larger municipality of the same name and of the Comunidad ...
)''.
Serra has a cemetery called the "Cemitério dos Ingleses" (English Cemetery) where remains of two children and 6 women are buried from the October 28, 1892
shipwreck of the S.S. Roumania, an
English
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.
References
Former parishes of Caldas da Rainha
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