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Famões
Famões is a former civil parish in the municipality of Odivelas, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Pontinha e Famões. Administratively, the parish of Famões was de-annexed from the neighboring parish of Odivelas on 25 August 1989, and later elevated to the status of town, on 19 April 2001.
Today, it continues to be part of the municipality of Odivelas, after existing as a parish in the municipality of Loures (it was annexed to Odivelas on 19 November 1998). Ecclesiastically, the religious parish of Famões belongs to the vicarage of Loures-Odivelas, in the Diocese of Lisbon, its organ is Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Our Lady of the Rosary).