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Civil parish in Alentejo, Portugal
Baleizão
Coat of arms of Baleizão
Coat of arms
Baleizão is located in Portugal
Baleizão
Baleizão
Location in Portugal
Coordinates: 38°01′34″N 7°42′50″W / 38.026°N 7.714°W / 38.026; -7.714
Country Portugal
RegionAlentejo
Intermunic. comm.Baixo Alentejo
DistrictBeja
MunicipalityBeja
Area
 • Total139.74 km (53.95 sq mi)
Population
 • Total902
 • Density6.5/km (17/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)

Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the: municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902, in an area of 139.74 km.

The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the——Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.

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