Tramagal is a Portuguese ''

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'' ("civil parish"), located in

Abrantes Abrantes () is a concelho, municipality in the central Médio Tejo Subregion, Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal. The population was 39,325, in an area of . The municipality includes several parishes divided by the Tagus River, which runs through ...

Municipality, in

Santarém District The District of Santarém ( ) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's West and Tagus Valley region. The district capital is the city of Santarém. The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of , and a population of 475 ...

. The population in 2011 was 3,500,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 24.10 km².Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
/ref> The parish is the third-most populous in the municipality.

Economy

Tramagal is the seat of a historical ironworks, originally called Metalúrgica Duarte Ferreira, which was later acquired by Mitsubishi's truck division Fuso, majority owned by the

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group. In the 1960s the factory produced, under licence,

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trucks for the Portuguese military. As of 2023, it hosts European production of the eCanter electric light truck.

References

Freguesias of Abrantes {{Santarém-geo-stub