EP: an administrative division of the towns. BP: “clientele”, “customers”.

Freguesia (lit. civil parish, pron. ) is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and in the former Portuguese Empire, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau. It is a subdivision of a município (aka concelho, lit. municipality). Each parish takes the name of its seat, which is always the most important (or the single) village or town within its area; in cases where the seat is itself divided into more than one parish, each takes the name of a landmark within its area or of the patron saint from the usually coterminous Catholic parish.