Viscount of Barrosa (Portuguese: Visconde da Barrosa) is a Portuguese title of nobility, created on July 9, 1892 by Carlos I, king of Portugal, for José Ribeiro Lima da Costa Azevedo, 1st Viscount of Barrosa (Barcelos, July 8, 1851 – Viana do Castelo, November 30, 1925), a prominent political figure in Viana do Castelo and local philanthropist.Various authors, Nobreza de Portugal e Brasil (Lisbon, 1983), vol. II, p. 404.
The viscountship takes its name from Casa da Barrosa, an eighteenth-century manor house and estate inherited by the first holder's wife Antónia Ribeiro Lima in Vila Franca do Lima, Viana do Castelo.Laurinda F. de Carvalho Araújo, Monografia de Santa Eulália de Rio Covo (Barcelos, Braga: Editora Pax, 1984), p. 43.
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