Lousada

Lousada
Municipality
Torre de Vilar
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 41°18′N 8°14′W / 41.30°N 8.24°W / 41.30; -8.24
Country	Portugal
Region	Norte
Intermunic. comm.	Tâmega e Sousa
District	Porto
Parishes	15
Government
• President	Jorge Magalhães (PS)
Area
• Total	96.08 km2 (37.10 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	47,387
• Density	490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Website	www.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.