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Gondomar (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡõduˈmaɾ] (listen)) is a municipality located in the east of Portugal's Porto Metropolitan Area and 7 km from central Porto. The population in 2011 was 168,027,[1] in an area of 131.86 km².[2] Gondomar's mayor is Marco Martins.

Gondomar
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 41°9′N 8°32′W
Country	Portugal
Region	Norte
Metropolitan area	Porto
District	Porto
Parishes	7
Government
• President	Marco Martins (PS)
Area
• Total	131.86 km2 (50.91 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	168,027
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Website	http://www.cm-gondomar.pt

Gondomar is well known for its jewelry industry, and its name can be traced, like many other toponyms of Northern Portugal, to a prominent Visigothic figure of his day, the King Gundemar.

Demographics

Population of Gondomar Municipality (1801 – 2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
7 220	19 103	32 428	49 758	84 599	130 751	143 178	164 096	168 027

Cities and towns

Cities are:

• Gondomar (1991)
• Rio Tinto (1995)
• Valbom (2005)

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):[3]

• Baguim do Monte
• Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova
• Foz do Sousa e Covelo
• Lomba
• Melres e Medas
• Rio Tinto
• Gondomar (São Cosme), Valbom e Jovim

Sports

The town has one association football team called Gondomar who currently play in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third tier of Portuguese football.

Notable people

• João de Sahagún (1668–1730) a Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe, 1709–1730
• Isabel Santos (born 1968 in Valbom) a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Sport

• Pedro Barbosa (born 1970) a Portuguese retired footballer with 422 club caps and 22 for Portugal
• Rómulo Filipe Cunha da Silva (born 1976), known as Rómulo, a Portuguese former footballer with 506 club caps
• Daniel Materazzi (born 1985) a footballer with over 320 club caps
• Ricardo Filipe da Silva Braga (born 1985) known as Ricardinho a Portuguese futsal player who has played over 300 games and 160 for Portugal
• André Castro (born 1988), known as Castro, a Portuguese footballer with over 360 club caps

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gondomar.

• http://www.cm-gondomar.pt/

На других языках

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- [en] Gondomar, Portugal

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[es] Gondomar (Portugal)

Gondomar es una ciudad portuguesa perteneciente al distrito de Oporto, Región estadística del Norte (NUTS II) y comunidad intermunicipal de Gran Área Metropolitana de Oporto (NUTS III), con cerca de 25 700 habitantes.

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[ru] Гондомар (Португалия)

Гондомар (порт. Gondomar; [gõdu'maɾ]) — город в Португалии, центр одноимённого муниципалитета в составе округа Порту. Находится в составе крупной городской агломерации Большой Порту. По старому административному делению входил в провинцию Дору-Литорал. Входит в экономико-статистический субрегион Большой Порту, который входит в Северный регион. Численность населения — 25,7 тыс. жителей (город), 171 881 жителей (муниципалитет) на 2006 год. Занимает площадь 133,26 км².

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