Lousada

Lousada
Torre de Vilar
Torre de Vilar
Flag of Lousada
Coat of arms of Lousada
Coordinates: 41°18′N 8°14′W / 41.30°N 8.24°W / 41.30; -8.24
Country Portugal
RegionNorte
Intermunic. comm.Tâmega e Sousa
DistrictPorto
Parishes15
Government
 • PresidentJorge Magalhães (PS)
Area
 • Total96.08 km2 (37.10 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total47,387
 • Density490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Websitewww.cm-lousada.pt

Lousada (European Portuguese pronunciation: [loˈzaðɐ] ) is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387,[1] in an area of 96.08 km².[2]

It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish Meinedo, which briefly was a short-lived Suebi-Galician bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.