Charneca or Charneca do Lumiar (
English: ''
Lumiar heathland''), was a
Portuguese parish (''
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 Portuguese over ...
'') in the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
of
Lisbon
Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...
. It was created in 1585. Between 1852 and 1886 this parish was part of the former municipality of
Olivais. With the 2012 Administrative Reform, the parish merged with the
Ameixoeira parish into a new one named
Santa Clara.
References
Former parishes of Lisbon
{{lisbon-geo-stub