Freguesia 's the Portuguese term for civil parish, a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and in the former Portuguese Empire, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau. A "freguesia"'s a subdivision of a "concelho" or "município", the Portuguese synonym terms for municipality. Most often, a civil parish takes the name of its seat, which's usually the most important (or the single) human agglomeration within its area; in cases where the seat's itself divided into… (More on Freguesia)