a human presence in the parish remotes to the transition between the middle and late paleolithic epoch (some 30000 years ago). but, the first references to the community of bordeira occurred between 1567 and 1568: in 1567, vasco martins, an inhabitant from bordeira bought a bull to help cultivate his land, from joão nobre (an inhabitant from corotelo); and, in 1568, joão vasques formoso, another dweller in the region moved his stakes to gorjões.