Rio Tinto

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Rio Tinto

Total population

64,815

Land area9.38 km²

Coordinates41.18°, -8.56°

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

City facts

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Overview

Rio Tinto is a Portuguese city and parish located in Gondomar Municipality, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 50,713, in an area of 9.38 km2. Rio Tinto, which in Portuguese means red river, was elevated to city status in 1995, and the city of Rio Tinto includes two parishes : Baguim do Monte and Rio Tinto, with a total of 65,000 inhabitants, being the most populous city in Gondomar municipality, and third largest in the Greater Porto agglomeration.

Geography

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

Nearby places in Porto

• Ferreiró
  6.8 mi away
• Casais
  14.1 mi away · pop. 1,401
• Olib
  1199.7 mi away · pop. 117
• Zapuntel
  1200.9 mi away · pop. 42
• Veli Rat
  1202.7 mi away · pop. 91
• Soline
  1204.1 mi away · pop. 59
• Božava
  1205.3 mi away · pop. 118
• Zverinac
  1205.8 mi away · pop. 55
• Kolanjski Gajac
  1206.2 mi away · pop. 16
• Mandre
  1206.9 mi away · pop. 395
• Šimuni
  1208.8 mi away · pop. 165
• Kolan
  1209 mi away · pop. 379

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Geography & sun

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

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Rio Tinto

Uma luz no fim do túnel

2001

Lettura della "Gerusalemme liberata"

Franco Tomasi · 2005

Juízes

2015

Mensagens Curtas 8

2016

Puritanos

2015

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Lang's Short-tailed Blue

Leptotes pirithous

Seen 2026-09-23

African Grass Blue

Zizeeria knysna

Seen 2026-09-23

Cross Orbweaver

Araneus diadematus

Seen 2026-09-23

Little Egret

Egretta garzetta

Seen 2026-09-23

Common Drone Fly

Eristalis tenax

Seen 2026-09-23

Peach Blossom Moth

Thyatira batis

Seen 2026-09-23

Arizona beggarticks

Bidens aurea

Seen 2026-09-23

Willow Beauty

Peribatodes rhomboidaria

Seen 2026-09-23

Bosca's newt

Lissotriton boscai

Seen 2026-09-23

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

Official Identifiers