Baleizão
Civil parish in Alentejo, Portugal
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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 km2.[2]
Baleizão | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Baleizão Location in Portugal | |
| Coordinates: 38.026°N 7.714°W | |
| Country |  Portugal |
| Region | Alentejo |
| Intermunic. comm. | Baixo Alentejo |
| District | Beja |
| Municipality | Beja |
| Area | |
• Total | 139.74 km2 (53.95 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 902 |
| • Density | 6.45/km2 (16.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+00:00 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
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.
