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Águas de Portugal (AdP Group) is a Portuguese state-owned company that operates in the water sector.. AdP Group companies provide services throughout all of mainland Portugal and across the fields of water supply and wastewater sanitation, namely the capture, treatment and distribution of water for public consumption and the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of urban and ...
Porto District [4] [5] Port of Lisbon: Lisbon District [6] Port of Setúbal Setúbal District [7] Port of Figueira da Foz Coimbra District [8] Port of Aveiro Aveiro District [9] Port of Viana do Castelo Viana do Castelo District [10] Madeira; Port of Caniçal Madeira Island [11] Azores; Port of Praia da Vitória Praia da Vitória [12] Port of ...
Concerning drinking water, Portugal still does not comply with some of the parameters of the EU directive. For example, almost 50% of water supply zones do not comply as regards total coliforms, while 20% of the zones do not comply with the faecal coliforms parameter. The situation improved in 2004, the most recent year for which Portugal ...
Maia (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is a municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area, Grande Porto subregion, in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located 11 km north of central Porto. The population in 2011 was 135,306, [1] in an area of 82.99 km 2 (32.04 sq mi). [2]
The Serras do Porto Park (Portuguese: Parque das Serras do Porto) is situated in the Porto Metropolitan Area, encompassing territories within the municipalities of Gondomar, Paredes, and Valongo. It is classified as a regional protected landscape. [ 1 ]
Porto has several institutions of higher education, the largest one being the state-managed University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), which is the second largest Portuguese university, after the University of Lisbon, with approximately 28,000 students and considered one of the 100 best Universities in Europe. [93]
The building is isolated in an urban area along Rua das Águas Férreas and a lane, between Rua da Boavista and a line of Metro do Porto, near the Lapa station/stop. [1] To the south is granite wall limiting the garden with grate, to the east the gate that accesses a two-story building, and to the north constructions of smaller stature. [1]
The Assembleia Metropolitana do Porto (Porto Metropolitan Assembly) is composed of 43 MPs, the PSD party has 20 seats, the PS 16, the CDS 3, CDU 3 and the BE, one. Although the government has halted the intention of creating new metropolitan areas and urban communities, it is keen to ensure greater autonomy to Porto and Lisbon metropolitan areas.