São Miguel do Couto is an urban parish located southeast in the city of Santo Tirso

Santo Tirso

Santo Tirso is a city and municipality located in the north of Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto District, Portugal. In the region, the Ave Valley, there is a large center of textile industry....

, Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, near the bottom of Monte Cordova Hill.

As of the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,292. It covers 2.39 km² of area, most of which is residential although there are some textile

Textile

A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...

 industry facilities here, too.

In 907, Count Hermenegildo Gonçalves, governor of the Condado Portucalense, was born here.