Nossa Senhora de Fátima is the northernmost and largest civil parish in the Macau Peninsula of Macau. It has an area of 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 reclaimedfrom 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
* 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.
has its main campus in Ilha Verde, Nossa Senhora de Fátima. It moved into this campus in September 2017.
Public libraries
operates five branches in the parish:
Ilha Verde Library
*The library, which opened in 1995, occupies of space on the fourth floor of the Edf. May Fair Garden.
Mong Há Library
*It occupies of space on the third floor of the Edifício Mong Sin in the Habitação Social de Mong Há. It first occupied a three story building in the Bairro Social de Mong-Há 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
*One of several parks funded by Chinese Peruvian Wong Ieng Kuan, it has an area with of space. Its opening occurred in 2004.
Wong Ieng Kuan Children's Library in Areia Preta Urban Park
* The library occupies a space of 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
* It occupies 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.
