| Arrentela | |||
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| Country | Portugal | ||
| Municipality | Seixal | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 9.58 km2 (3.7 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2001) | |||
| • Total | 28,610 | ||
| • Density | 2,986.4/km2 (7,734.8/sq mi) | ||
| Postal code | P-2840 | ||
| Website | www.jf-arrentela.pt | ||
Arrentela is a Portuguese parish, located in the city of Seixal. It had a 2001 population of 28,610 inhabitants and a total area of 9.58 km², its density was 2,986.4/km². Its inhabitants are known as Arrentelense. With the freguesia of Seixal forms the city of Seixal.
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The freguesia of Arrentela is formed by the following localities:
Its coat of arms contains the colours blue and shining grey with two waves of grey in five blue squares that is in the middle and grey ones. It features an equipment on the top, its plant in the left and right and a boat with a rope at the bottom, the two are coloured red.
Arrentela is situated by the south banks of the tributary of the Tagus river. The village was first known as Aventella, it had various forms including Arreentella in which the sand is dugged, secondly a popular tradicion, the other land (além terra) that is a river with fishers.
All of the area south of the bank became a large terciary denominantly Setúbal Peninsula, on a vase area that made up formations of the myocenic port and pliocene. The pliocenic times occupied a large entirely of the peninsula and in the quaternary were made up by the banks of the Tagus/Tejo. In that, all of the area of the municipality of Seixal referred to the parish of Arrentela, featured a pliocenic formation of the Tejo which it boarded a large deposics by the riverbank.
The population were founded in the Pliocene terrains except for the banks.
Along with other river people in the area, Arrentela dissolved into a base with potentialities of the river which in a level of its natural recourses and its proportional acitivities for the geographic location with a naval construction brought for a part of that time the discovery and expansion of the Portuguese maritime.
Arrentela lost progressively a local power that passed to the seat of the important parish (that included Seixal, the modern localties of Aldeia de Paio Peres and Fernão Ferro) a simple parishes pertained to the parish of Seixal and with the parish of Seixal forms the city of Seixal.
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