Thursday 29 October 2020

COJA (PORTUGAL)


COJA
N 40.26718; W 7.98843

Coja ou Côja is a Portuguese village and former parish in the municipality of Arganil, with an area of 2.5 km² and 4 160 inhabitants (2011). Its population density is around 1 700 inhabitants / km².



It consisted of the parishes of Benfeita, Cerdeira, Coja, Teixeira, Espariz, Meda de Mouros, Mouronho and Pinheiro de Coja.
As a parish it was extinct in 2013, having been added to the parish of Barril de Alva, to form a new parish called União das Freguesia de Côja and Barril de Alva with headquarters in Côja.