Torre de Moncorvo
Template:Infobox Portuguese subdivision Torre de Moncorvo (Script error: No such module "IPA".), officially the Town of Torre de Moncorvo (Template:Langx), is a municipality in the district of Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2015 was 7,891,[1] in an area of 531.56 km2.[2] In 2013, with a birth rate of 2.5 births per thousand inhabitants, Torre de Moncorvo had the lowest birth rate in Portugal.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes (freguesias):[6]
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History
Torre de Moncorvo was founded by Leonese noble Mendo Curvus, who ordered a castle built here as a personal residence and for defense of the region following the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula. A settlement charter was granted in 1128 and again in 1140.[7] Torre de Moncorvo had a Jewish population and a synagogue at least since the 14th century.[8]
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.[8]
References
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