Baleizão

Baleizão
Civil parish
Coat of arms
Baleizão Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 38.026°N 7.714°W / 38.026; -7.714
Country	Portugal
Region	Alentejo
Intermunic. comm.	Baixo Alentejo
District	Beja
Municipality	Beja
Area
• Total	139.74 km^2 (53.95 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	902
• Density	6.5/km^2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)

Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902,[1] in an area of 139.74 km^2.[2]

The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.

References

1. Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.