Alfundão is a former
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the municipality of
Ferreira do Alentejo
Ferreira do Alentejo (), officially known as the Town of Ferreira do Alentejo () and often called simply Ferreira, is a town and a municipality in Beja District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,255, in an area of 648.25 km2.
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, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish
Alfundão e Peroguarda.
Alfundão has an area of 51.96 km
2 and 863 inhabitants (2011). Its population density was 16.6 inhab / km
2. At the eastern end of Ferreira do Alentejo, Alfundão delimits this municipality from those of Cuba and Beja.
It was the seat of an extinct parish in 2013, as part of a national administrative reform, to form, together with Peroguarda, a new parish called União das Freguesia de Alfundão and Peroguarda of which it is the headquarters.
References
Former parishes of Ferreira do Alentejo
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