Vagos () is a town and a

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 ...

Aveiro District Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Po ...

, belonging to

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Region of

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. The district capital, Aveiro, is its nearest large city. Its population in 2011 was 22,851Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 164.92 km²,Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
/ref> and it had 17,204 eligible voters. In Roman times, the municipality was called Vacus, and had both coastline and large sand dune valleys just east of its center. Increases in sedimentation and sand drifts leveled and lengthened these distances. According to Antonio Gomes da Rocha Madail and other writers, there is tradition among the native population that they are descendants of the seafaring salt farmers of

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. Due to its fertile soils, agriculture plays a major role in the municipality's economy. Its green meadows create exceptional conditions for cattle breeding and milk production at a national level. The forest areas and vegetable production are other sources of prosperity for the municipality. Ceramics are the principal money-maker in its industrial sector. It is part of the intermunicipal community of

Região de Aveiro The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Aveiro () is an administrative division in Portugal. It was created in October 2008, replacing the previously existing ''Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro''. Since January 2015, Região de Aveiro is al ...

. Its present mayor is Silvério Rodrigues Regalado, elected by the

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. The municipal holiday is the Monday after

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. Its mother church honors Saint James.

Demographics

Cities and towns

* Sosa (town) *

Vagos Vagos () is a town and a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Aveiro District, belonging to Centro Region, Centro Region of Portugal. The district capital, Aveiro, Portugal, Aveiro, is its nearest large city. Its population in 2011 ...

(town)

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 8 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 ...

''): * Calvão *

Fonte de Angeão e Covão do Lobo Fonte de Angeão e Covão do Lobo is a civil parish in the municipality of Vagos Vagos () is a town and a municipality in Aveiro District, belonging to Centro Region of Portugal. The district capital, Aveiro, is its nearest large city. Its popul ...

* Gafanha da Boa Hora * Ouca * Ponte de Vagos e Santa Catarina * Santo André de Vagos * Sosa * Vagos e Santo António

Famous people

Manuel Freire Manuel Freire (Manuel Augusto Coentro de Pinho Freire) is a Portugal, Portuguese influential left-wing singer and composer, although he also works as a computer technician. Freire was born in Vagos Municipality, Vagos, Aveiro District on 25 Apr ...

, (born 1942), Portuguese singer and composer. *Diogo Sarabando, Portuguese singer and composer, known as ''Himalion.''

Associação Desportiva de Vagos Associaçao Desportiva de Vagos is a Portuguese women's basketball club from Vagos founded in 1994. It has won the 2010 national championship plus four national cups, and it has been a regular in the FIBA Eurocup since 2009.basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

club founded in 1994. *

Vagos Open Air VOA – Heavy Rock Festival (formerly VOA Fest and Vagos Open Air) is an open-air heavy metal/hard rock festival held annually in Lisbon, Portugal. The festival is being held since 2009 in four different locations: the first four editions, from ...

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since 2009.

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