Gondomar, Portugal
# Gondomar, Portugal

Gondomar (Portuguese pronunciation: (listen)) is a municipality located in the east of Portugal's Porto Metropolitan Area and 7 km from central Porto. The population in 2011 was 168,027, in an area of 131.86 km². Gondomar's mayor is Marco Martins.

Gondomar is well known for its jewelry industry, and its name can be traced, like many other toponyms of Northern Portugal, to a prominent Visigothic figure of his day, the King Gundemar.

## Demographics

Population of Gondomar Municipality (1801 – 2011) :

| 1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 220 | 19 103 | 32 428 | 49 758 | 84 599 | 130 751 | 143 178 | 164 096 | 168 027 |

## Cities and towns

Cities are:

* Gondomar (1991)
* Rio Tinto (1995)
* Valbom (2005)

## Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):

* Baguim do Monte
* Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova
* Foz do Sousa e Covelo
* Lomba
* Melres e Medas
* Rio Tinto
* Gondomar (São Cosme), Valbom e Jovim

## Sports

The town has one association football team called Gondomar who currently play in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third tier of Portuguese football.

## Notable people

* João de Sahagún (1668–1730) a Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe, 1709–1730
* Isabel Santos (born 1968 in Valbom) a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

### Sport

* Pedro Barbosa (born 1970) a Portuguese retired footballer with 422 club caps and 22 for Portugal
* Rómulo Filipe Cunha da Silva (born 1976), known as Rómulo, a Portuguese former footballer with 506 club caps
* Daniel Materazzi (born 1985) a footballer with over 320 club caps
* Ricardo Filipe da Silva Braga (born 1985) known as Ricardinho a Portuguese futsal player who has played over 300 games and 160 for Portugal
* André Castro (born 1988), known as Castro, a Portuguese footballer with over 360 club caps
