Torre de Moncorvo

Municipality in Norte, Portugal

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Coordinates: 41°12′N 7°08′W / 41.200°N 7.133°W / 41.200; -7.133Country

PortugalRegionNorteIntermunic. comm.DouroDistrictBragançaParishes13Government

• PresidentNuno Gonçalves (PSD)Area

• Total531.56 km² (205.24 sq mi)Population

(2011)

• Total8,572 • Density16/km² (42/sq mi)Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET) • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)Websitehttp://www.cm-moncorvo.pt

Torre de Moncorvo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ mõˈkoɾvu] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,572,^[1] in an area of 531.56 km².^[2]

The present mayor is Nuno Gonçalves, elected by the PSD.

Torre de Moncorvo is also a well-developed and promising mining area. Iron ore is mined at the Mua Mine by Aethel Partners.^[3] 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. [1]

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes (freguesias):^[4]

Açoreira
Adeganha e Cardanha
Cabeça Boa
Carviçais
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 had Portuguese ancestry: Borges's great-grandfather, Francisco, was born in Portugal in 1770, and lived in Torre de Moncorvo, before he emigrated to Argentina.

Climate

Torre de Moncorvo has a Mediterranean climate with warm to very hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters, depending on the altitude.

Climate data for station 06O/03U, Adeganha, Torre de Moncorvo, 1960-1980, altitude: 188 m (617 ft)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Daily mean °C (°F)	8.0 (46.4)	9.5 (49.1)	11.8 (53.2)	14.2 (57.6)	17.6 (63.7)	21.9 (71.4)	25.3 (77.5)	25.2 (77.4)	22.5 (72.5)	16.2 (61.2)	11.0 (51.8)	7.6 (45.7)	15.9 (60.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	78.0 (3.07)	76.2 (3.00)	50.4 (1.98)	40.9 (1.61)	44.8 (1.76)	43.5 (1.71)	8.8 (0.35)	9.7 (0.38)	25.9 (1.02)	55.6 (2.19)	67.7 (2.67)	59.9 (2.36)	561.4 (22.1)
Source: APA^[5]^[6]

References

^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^ Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
^ "Aethel recebe luz verde para explorar Minas de Moncorvo". 5 November 2019.
^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 121" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 August 2014.
^ "SNIRH > Dados de Base". snirh.apambiente.pt. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
^ "SNIRH > Dados de Base". snirh.apambiente.pt. Retrieved 26 June 2021.