Penso (São Vicente)

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Penso (São Vicente)

Total population

314

Coordinates41.49°, -8.44°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Escudeiros e Penso is a civil parish in the municipality of Braga, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Escudeiros, Santo Estêvão and São Vicente. The population in 2011 was 1,864, in an area of 8.04 km2.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

C

Conceição Ferreira

Portuguese runner

A

Aurora Cunha

Portuguese athletics competitor (born 1959)

António Conceição da Silva Oliveira

Portuguese footballer

E

Eboric

suevic King

Miro

King of Galicia

Lourenço de Almeida

Portuguese explorer

Gonçalo de Amarante

Portuguese Roman Catholic saint

Elisabete Matos

singer

A

André Cunha

Portuguese footballer

Pedro de Merelim

Portuguese historian, ethnographer (1913–2001)

Abílio Gomes Correia

Portuguese catholic priest (1882-1967)

Z

Zé Manel

Portuguese footballer

Mem Pires de Aguiar

M

Mem Pires de Longos

Mendo Gonçalves I de Sousa

Portuguese politician

Mesquita Machado

Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Braga

• Aguiar
  14.4 mi away · pop. 546
• Bouadel
  525.7 mi away
• Dr Ain Mnakher
  544.7 mi away
• Dr Hamoudate
  544.8 mi away
• Skoura M'Daz
  590.7 mi away · pop. 8,713
• Brnjavac
  1242.1 mi away · pop. 93
• Malička
  1242.4 mi away · pop. 43
• Podgorje
  1243.4 mi away · pop. 150
• Dugo Selo Lasinjsko
  1244.9 mi away · pop. 46
• Šljivovac
  1245.7 mi away · pop. 32
• Kozarac
  1246.1 mi away
• Staro Selo Topusko
  1246.9 mi away · pop. 154

Browse all places in Braga →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

common hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna

Seen 2026-10-01

Green Huntsman Spider

Micrommata ligurina

Seen 2026-09-30

oak lace bug

Corythucha arcuata

Seen 2026-09-29

Noble False Widow

Steatoda nobilis

Seen 2026-09-29

strawberry tree

Arbutus unedo

Seen 2026-09-28

Jerusalem cherry

Solanum pseudocapsicum

Seen 2026-09-28

Straw-barred Pearl

Pyrausta despicata

Seen 2026-09-28

bugweed

Solanum mauritianum

Seen 2026-09-28

tall nightshade

Solanum chenopodioides

Seen 2026-09-27

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).