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Nossa Senhora de Fátima is the northernmost and largest civil parish in the Macau Peninsula of Macau. It has an area of 3.2 square kilometers (1.2 sq mi) and a population of 126,000, which constitutes about 40.3% of the peninsula's land mass and one-third of the population.
This parish was one of five in the former Municipality of Macau, one of Macau's two municipalities that were abolished on 31 December 2001 by Law No. 17/2001, following the 1999 transfer of sovereignty over Macau from Portugal to China. While their administrative functions have since been removed, these parishes are still retained nominally.
It is northeast of the parishes of Santo António and São Lázaro. It borders the Chinese city of Zhuhai to the north.
Description
The parish consists mostly of land reclaimed from the sea. Natural land comprises only a quarter of its current size. It was developed from farmlands in the 1960s and 1970s, to become an industrial area. Forty-one percent of Macau's factories are located in the parish.
Places and attractions
The following places and attractions are in the parish
Escola Primária Luso-Chinesa do Bairro Norte (北區中葡小學)
It opened on 1 November 1990.
Jardim de Infância Luso-Chinês "Girassol" (樂富中葡幼稚園)
It occupies a 260 student-capacity, 1,042-square-metre (11,220 sq ft) area on two floors of the Edifício U Wa (裕華大廈). It opened in the Edifício “Lok Fu San Chun” on 27 March 1989 and moved to its current location in September 1997.
Tuition-free private schools
Colégio Dom Bosco (Yuet Wah) (鮑思高粵華小學) - Preschool and primary school
The current school building opened in 1963, and Yuet Wah College merged into it in 2000. The school has English and Chinese sections; its Portuguese section closed in 1999.
Macau Baptist College [zh] (MBC; Escola Cham Son de Macau; 澳門浸信中學) - Preschool through secondary school
Previously its secondary campus was located in a different area of Nossa Senhora de Fátima, respectively
Escola Chong Tak de Macau (澳門中德學校) - Preschool and primary school
Escola Fukien (澳門福建學校) - Preschool and primary school
Escola Tak Meng (德明學校) - Preschool and primary school - Located on the first floor of the Edifício Lok Fu San Chun (樂富新村)
Fu Luen School (Escola da Associação Geral das Mulheres de Macau; 澳門婦聯學校) - Preschool and primary school
Escola da Associação para Filhos e Irmãos dos Agricultores or Escola Choi Nong Chi Tai [zh] (菜農子弟學校 "Choi Nong Chi Tai Hoc Hau") - Preschool through secondary school
Ilha Verde Library (Biblioteca da Ilha Verde; 青洲圖書館)
The library, which opened in 1995, occupies 482 square metres (5,190 sq ft) of space on the fourth floor of the Edf. May Fair Garden (美居廣場).
Mong Há Library (Biblioteca de Mong Há; 望廈圖書館)
It occupies 360 square metres (3,900 sq ft) of space on the third floor of the Edifício Mong Sin (望善樓) in the Habitação Social de Mong Há (望廈社屋). It first occupied a three storey building in the Bairro Social de Mong-Há (望廈新邨) upon opening in 1988; this location closed in April 2011 and it reopened in its current location in December 2011.
Wong Ieng Kuan Library in Areia Preta Urban Park [zh] (Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim da Areia Preta; 黑沙環公園黃營均圖書館)
One of several parks funded by Chinese Peruvian Wong Ieng Kuan (黃營均), it has an area with 200 square metres (2,200 sq ft) of space. Its opening occurred in 2004.
Wong Ieng Kuan Children's Library in Areia Preta Urban Park (Biblioteca Infantil Wong Ieng Kuan no Jardim da Areia Preta; 黑沙環公園黃營均兒童圖書館)
The library occupies a space of 210 square metres (2,300 sq ft) and is directly across from the main library in the same park. It uses a theme from the Mainland Chinese television programme Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. It first opened on 2 July 2011. The library, prior to receiving its current theme on 1 December 2012, originally had an Alice in Wonderland theme.
Wong Ieng Kuan Library in Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Municipal Park (Biblioteca de Wong Ieng Kuan no Parque Dr. Sun Yat Sen; 紀念孫中山公園黃營均圖書館)
It occupies 459 square metres (4,940 sq ft) of space in a former restaurant in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Municipal Park. One of several created with funding by Dr. Wong Ieng Kuan, it opened in a separate building in the park in 1996 and moved to its current building on 24 January 2014.
Cartography and Cadastre Bureau (2018-09-29). "Area of Parishes". Archived from the original on 2018-09-29.
"Contacte-Nos." Macau Health Bureau. Retrieved on April 21, 2018. "Centro de Saúde Areia Preta (Hac Sa Wan) Centro de Saúde de Areia Preta Rua Central da Areia Preta, Lote de Terra 18 " Chinese version: "黑沙環衛生中心 澳門黑沙環中街18地段"
"我們在這裡" (We Are Here) Kwong Tai Middle School. Retrieved on 9 November 2018. "正校 地址：澳門筷子基街筷子基社屋旁 Rua de Fai Chi Kei, Habitação Social de Fai Chi Kei, Macau"
"Contacts." University of Saint Joseph. Retrieved on January 17, 2018. "New Campus USJ’s headquarters have been moved to the new campus at: Estrada Marginal da Ilha Verde, 14-17, Macau, China 中國澳門青洲河邊馬路14-17號"
Note: The civil parishes are purely symbolic. There are currently no political administrative subdivisions in Macau, and instead, the Municipal Affairs Bureau handles some of the functions formerly handled by the abolished municipalities, the former had replaced the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau that was formed in 2002.
The old Portas do Cerco
Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima in Macau
Macau
Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima
