Arcos de Valdevez
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municipality of Portugal
Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Norte
- Intermunic comm
- Alto Minho
- District
- Viana do Castelo
- President
- Francisco Rodrigues de Araújo ( PSD )
- Total
- 447.60 km (172.82 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 47 m (154 ft)
- Highest elevation
- 1,416 m (4,646 ft)
- Density
- 51.043/km (132.20/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Patron
- São Paio
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Encyclopedic overview
Arcos de Valdevez ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaɾkuʒ ðɨ ˌvaldɨˈveʃ] ) is a municipality along the northern frontier of Portugal and Galicia (Spain). The population in 2011 was 22,847, in an area of 447.60 km. It is the largest municipality in area of the district of Viana do Castelo.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arcos de Valdevez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.