Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes

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Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes (October 24, 1890 – July 25, 2005) was the longest-lived person to be documented in Portugal, and one of the world's very few supercentenarians. She lived in Grijó, near Vila Nova de Gaia, which is very close to the city of Porto.^{[citation needed]}

She remembered the day when the last king of Portugal, D. Manuel II, visited the nearby town of Espinho, which was November 23rd, 1908.^{[citation needed]}

Unfortunately, she was nearly deaf and blind in her later years, and was confined to bed after a 2002 domestic accident with boiling water that burned her feet.^{[citation needed]}

She had a total of eight daughters, seven grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1942. Curiously, one of her great-granddaughters married a grandson of Portugal's oldest man.^{[citation needed]}

Maia-Lopes died at 114 years old.