Ponte de Sor (ˈpõt ðɨ ˈsoɾ) is a municipality in Portugal

Portugal

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 with a total area of 839.7 km² and a population of 17,593 inhabitants.

The municipality is composed of 7 freguesia

Freguesia

Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...

s, and is located in Portalegre District.

The present Mayor is João Taveira Pinto, elected by the Socialist Party

Portuguese Socialist Party

The Portuguese Socialist Party was a political party in Portugal.The party was founded in 1875. During its initial phase the party was heavily influenced by Proudhonism, and rejected revolutionary Marxism. The party suffered constant factional struggles...

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The municipal holiday is Easter Monday

Easter Monday

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Economy

The economy of the municipality is based in agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

, services and light industries ranging from food to light aerospace industry through a facility of France-based company Dyn’Aero.

Parishes

• Foros de Arrão
  Foros de Arrão
  Foros de Arrão is a village near Ponte de Sor, Portugal....
  
   (Foros do Arrão
  Foros de Arrão
  Foros de Arrão is a village near Ponte de Sor, Portugal....
  
  )
• Galveias
  Galveias
  Galveias is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponte de Sor, in the Portugese northern Alentejo, district of Portalegre. With a population of just under 1489 residents, the small 79.83 km² parish, developed under the patronage of Order of Aviz, endowments from the Marquês Ratão...
  
  
• Longomel
• Montargil
  Montargil
  Montargil is a parish in the municipality of Ponte de Sor in Portugal. It covers an area of 296.76 km² and had a population of 2,781 as of 2001....
  
  
• Ponte de Sor
• Tramaga
• Vale de Açor

External links

• Town Hall official website