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Parishes Of Macau
By the end of Portuguese Macau, Portuguese rule, Macau was administratively divided into two municipalities: Municipality of Macau, Macau and Municipality of Ilhas, Ilhas, and seven civil parishes (). Parishes were administrative subdivisions of the municipalities. After the 1999 Handover of Macau, transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China, municipalities were formally abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001. Since the abolition of the municipalities, parishes are still officially recognized divisions but for symbolic reasons only, while some of the municipal services are now handled by the Municipal Affairs Bureau. Parishes Prior to the dissolution of the municipalities in 2001, the first five parishes listed in the table below fell under the Municipality of Macau while the remaining two fell under the Municipality of Ilhas, totalling to seven parishes. The parishes of Nossa Senhora do Carmo and São Francisco Xavier are coterminous with the natural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Lourenço, Macau
São Lourenço is a Parishes of Macau, civil parish () of Macau. It is located in the southwestern of Macau Peninsula and named after Lawrence of Rome. This parish was one of five in the former Municipality of Macau, one of Macau's two municipalities that were abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001, following the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China. While their administrative functions have since been removed, these parishes are still retained nominally. It was surrounded by water on all sides except north and Southeast. It neighbours Sé, Macau, Freguesia da Sé. Penha Hill and () are to the south. The Portuguese governor building and current administrative buildings are located here. The hillsides contain a residential area of luxurious villas. * Area: 0.9 km2 (13.4% of the peninsula) * Population: 45,600 * Population density: 50,904 persons per km2 Government * Macau Government Headquarters * Macau Government House * Government Print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesias Of Macau
By the end of Portuguese rule, Macau was administratively divided into two municipalities: Macau and Ilhas, and seven civil parishes (). Parishes were administrative subdivisions of the municipalities. After the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China, municipalities were formally abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001. Since the abolition of the municipalities, parishes are still officially recognized divisions but for symbolic reasons only, while some of the municipal services are now handled by the Municipal Affairs Bureau. Parishes Prior to the dissolution of the municipalities in 2001, the first five parishes listed in the table below fell under the Municipality of Macau while the remaining two fell under the Municipality of Ilhas, totalling to seven parishes. The parishes of Nossa Senhora do Carmo and São Francisco Xavier are coterminous with the natural borders of the islands of Taipa Taipa ( zh, t=氹仔, ; , ) is an area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geography Of Macau
__NOTOC__ Macau is a Special Administrative Region on the southern coast of China. It is located at the south of Guangdong Province, on the tip of the peninsula formed by the Zhujiang (Pearl River) estuary on the east and the Xijiang (West River) on the west. Macau is situated west of Hong Kong, and southwest of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province. It is situated immediately east and south of Zhuhai. The region comprises the Macau Peninsula and the islands of Taipa and Coloane. Macau was once an island but gradually a connecting sandbar turned into a narrow isthmus. Land reclamation in the 17th century made Macau into a peninsula, and a barrier gate was built to mark the separation between the peninsula and the mainland. Pre-colonial records show that Macau totalled only but began to increase as a result of Portuguese settlement. Land growth has accelerated since the last quarter of the 20th century, from in 1972 to in 1983 to in 1994. Macau's size has gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concelho Das Ilhas
The Municipality of Ilhas () was one of the two Municipalities and parishes of Macau, municipalities of Macau, along with the Municipality of Macau. Its organs were the Municipal Council of Ilhas () and the Municipal Assembly of Ilhas (). Following the handover of Macau to China on 20 December 1999, they were renamed as Provisional Municipal Council of Ilhas () and the Provisional Municipal Assembly of Ilhas (). The municipality along with the institutions were formally abolished on 31 December 2001 and replaced by the Municipal Affairs Bureau, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau the following day. Freguesias See also *Municipality of Macau References External linksLaw No. 17/2001 - Creation of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (in Chinese) - Dissolution of the Câmaras Munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macau Peninsula
The Macau Peninsula is the historical and most populous part of Macau. It has an area of () and is geographically connected to Guangdong Province at the northeast through an isthmus wide. The peninsula, together with downtown Zhuhai, sits on an island separated from the continent by distributaries of the Pearl River. The Border Gate (; ) was built on the northern isthmus. At the south, the peninsula is connected to Taipa Island by three bridges, the Friendship Bridge (''Ponte da Amizade''); the Macau-Taipa Bridge (''Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho''); and the Sai Van Bridge (''Ponte de Sai Van''). The longest axis extends from the Border Gate to the southwestern edge, Barra (媽閣嘴). There is a western "Inner Harbor" (內港) paralleled by an "Outer Harbor" (外港) to the east. The Guia Hill (松山) is the highest point on the peninsula, which has an average elevation of . Many coastal places are reclaimed from the sea. The Historic Centre of Macau, which is enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concelho De Macau
The Municipality of Macau () was one of two municipalities of Macau, along with the Municipality of Ilhas. Governance Its bodies were the municipal council (''Câmara Municipal de Macau'') and the municipal assembly (''Assembleia Municipal de Macau'') (''Câmara Municipal de Macau Provisória'' and ''Assembleia Municipal de Macau Provisória'' after December 20, 1999). The two municipalities were replaced by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais) in 2001. History In 1513, Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares arrived in the Pearl River Delta, in the Shenzhen area, which he called Tamão. A Portuguese settlement was started there. By 1535 traders were allowed to anchor their ships in the harbour. In 1887, the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking was signed, allowing "the perpetual occupation and government of Macau by Portugal". According to National Geographic, "Macau may never have existed if not for Tamão" where the Portugue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hengqin
Hengqin (, ) is an island that lies mostly in Zhuhai, a prefecture-level city and special economic zone in Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China. It has a population of about 3,000. Parts of Hengqin are leased to Macau by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, starting from 2009, mostly to house the new campus of the University of Macau. In the leased parts of the island, Macau law applies. The whole island is designated a special economic district, as the Hengqin New Area, similar to Binhai New Area in Tianjin and Pudong New Area in Shanghai. Geography Hengqin Island is adjacent to the Taipa and Coloane districts of Macau, with the Shisanmen Waterway separating them, and is connected to Macau's Cotai via the Lotus Bridge. The island is the largest among the 146 islands of Zhuhai, being roughly three times the size of Macau. It has broad bays, sandy beaches, strangely shaped jagged rocks, scenery, and natural vegetation cover. Hengqi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Macau
The University of Macau (UM or UMAC) is a public comprehensive research university in Macau. The university campus is located in Hengqin, Hengqin Island, Zhuhai, Guangdong, on a piece of land leased to and under the jurisdiction of the Government of Macau. With the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology (China), Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the University of Macau has established three state key laboratories, namely State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, and State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City. The Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Macau becomes the 99th in the whole world and the first Triple accreditation, triple-accredited business school in Macau to be accredited by the EFMD Quality Improvement System, European Quality Improvement System, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and the Association of Master of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HZMB) is a bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artificial islands. It is both the longest sea crossing and the longest Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links, open-sea fixed link in the world. The HZMB spans the Lingdingyang, Lingding and Jiuzhouyang, Jiuzhou channels, connecting Hong Kong and Macau with Zhuhai—a major city on the Pearl River Delta in China. The HZM Bridge was designed to last for 120 years and cost Renminbi, ¥127 billion (US$18.8 billion) to build. The cost of constructing the #Main Bridge, Main Bridge was estimated at ¥51.1 billion (US$7.56 billion) funded by bank loans and shared among the governments of mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Originally set to be opened to traffic in late 2016, the structure was completed on 6 February 2018 and journalists were subsequently taken for a ride over the bridge. On 24 October 2018 the HZMB was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macau New Urban Zone
The Macau New Urban Zone (; ) is a currently under land reclamation in Macau, that has not yet been assigned to any of the freguesias. Districts Macau New Urban Zone will be divided into 5 districts: Completed * A – Eastern side from Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal to the north end of Avenida da Ponte de Amizade * B – Southern side of Avenida da Dr. Sun Yat-sen (now a part of Sé) * E1 – Western side of Taipa Ferry Terminal * E2 – Eastern side of Taipa Ferry Terminal (now part of Nossa Senhora do Carmo) Under reclamation * C – Northern side of Avenida dos Jardins do Oceano (between Ponte de Sai Van and Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho) Cancelled * D – Northern side of Altira Macau (between Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho and Ponte de Amizade) See also * Cotai Cotai ( zh, t=路氹城, cy=Louhtáhm Sìhng; ) is a piece of land reclamation, reclaimed land on the top of the Seac Pai Bay between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau that has connec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
