Freguesia de Foz do Sousa
Freguesia de Foz do Sousa is a village in União das freguesias de Foz do Sousa e Covelo, Gondomar Municipality, Porto District and has about 6,050 residents. Freguesia de Foz do Sousa is situated nearby to the hamlet Jancido, as well as near Sarrano.Places of Interest
Highlights include Antiga Central de Captação de Água da Foz do Sousa and Santo Inácio Zoo.
Antiga Central de Captação de Água da Foz do Sousa
Ruins
Photo: Reis Quarteu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antiga Central de Captação de Água da Foz do Sousa is a ruins.
Santo Inácio Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santo Inácio Zoo is situated 3 km west of Freguesia de Foz do Sousa.
Crestuma–Lever Dam
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crestuma–Lever Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Douro. It is located in the municipality Vila Nova de Gaia, in Porto District, Portugal. Construction of the dam began in 1976. Crestuma–Lever Dam is situated 3½ km south of Freguesia de Foz do Sousa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covelo and Crestuma.
Covelo
Village
Covelo is a former civil parish in the municipality of Gondomar, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Foz do Sousa e Covelo. It has a population of 1,755 inhabitants and a total area of 8.36 km2. Covelo is situated 3 km east of Freguesia de Foz do Sousa.
Crestuma
Town
Crestuma is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Sandim, Olival, Lever e Crestuma. The population in 2011 was 2,621, in an area of 4.68 km². Crestuma is situated 4 km south of Freguesia de Foz do Sousa.
Avintes
Town
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, CC BY 2.5.
Avintes is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. The population in 2021 was 10,838, in an area of 8.82 km2. It is known in Portugal as "Terra da Broa", meaning "Land of the Broa", referring to the Broa de Avintes, a typical farmhouse bread widely consumed in Northern Portugal, which originated in Avintes. Avintes is situated 4½ km west of Freguesia de Foz do Sousa.
Freguesia de Foz do Sousa
- Type: Village with 6,050 residents
- Description: former civil parish in Portugal
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: União das freguesias de Foz do Sousa e Covelo, Gondomar Municipality, Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.09945° or 41° 5′ 58″ northLongitude
-8.49991° or 8° 29′ 60″ westPopulation
6,050Open location code
8CHH3GX2+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2355896704OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q188077
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Freguesia de Foz do Sousa” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Foz do Sousa”
- Cebuano: “Foz do Sousa”
- Chechen: “Фош-ду-Соза”
- Chinese: “福斯杜索萨”
- Dutch: “Foz do Sousa”
- French: “Freguesia de Foz do Sousa”
- German: “Foz do Sousa”
- German: “Freguesia de Foz do Sousa”
- Kazakh: “Фош-ду-Соза”
- Portuguese: “Foz do Sousa (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “Foz do Sousa”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Foz do Sousa”
- Russian: “Фош-ду-Соза”
- Spanish: “Foz do Sousa”
- Spanish: “Freguesia de Foz do Sousa”
- Tatar: “Фош-ду-Соза”
- Turkish: “Foz de Sousa”
- Turkish: “Foz do Sousa”
- “Freguesia de Foz do Sousa”
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