Torre de Moncorvo () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,572,
[Instituto Nacional de Estatística]
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The present mayor is Nuno Gonçalves, elected by the PSD PSD may refer to:
Educational bodies
* Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, a Pre-K to 12th grade school for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Philippine School Doha, a Filipino scho ...
.
Torre de Moncorvo is also a well-developed and promising mining area. Iron ore is mined at the Mua Mine
The Mua mine is a large iron mine located in central Portugal in the Bragança District. Mua represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), i ...
by Aethel Partners. The municipal holiday is March 19. In early November, the directorate-general for energy and geology (DGEG) authorised Aethel to control the Torre de Moncorvo iron mine, a company that hopes to put Portugal in a leading position in European mining
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes ('' freguesia (Portugal), freguesias''):Carviçais
Carviçais is a parish of the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo in the district of Bragança (Portugal). The population in 2011 was 757, in an area of 63.00 km². The parish is composed of 7 villages: Carviçais, Macieirinha, Martim Tirado, Q ...
* Castedo
* Felgar e Souto da Velha
* Felgueiras e Maçores
* Horta da Vilariça
* Larinho
* Lousa
* Mós
* Torre de Moncorvo
* Urrós e Peredo dos Castelhanos
Famous people
According to a study by Antonio Andrade, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
had Portuguese ancestry: Borges's great-grandfather, Francisco, was born in Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
in 1770, and lived in Torre de Moncorvo, before he emigrated to Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
Climate
Torre de Moncorvo has a Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...
with warm to very hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, depending on the altitude.
References
External links
Municipality official website
Municipalities of Bragança District
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