Moura () is a city and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

District of Beja The Beja District () is located in southern Portugal. The district capital is the city of Beja. It is the largest district of the country by area, and constitutes around 11% of its area. Municipalities The district is composed of 14 municipali ...

in Portugal, subdivided into 5 ''

freguesia ''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...

s''. The population in 2011 was 15,167, in an area of 958.46 km². The city itself had a population of 8,459 in 2001. It has now around 11,000 inhabitants. The current Mayor is José Pós de Mina, elected by the

Unitary Democratic Coalition The Unitary Democratic Coalition ( pt, CDU – Coligação Democrática Unitária, PCP–PEV) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party ( pt, Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The G ...

. The municipal holiday is 24 June. It is home to

Moura Photovoltaic Power Station The Moura Photovoltaic Power Station (also known as Amareleja Photovoltaic Power Station) is a large photovoltaic power station in Amareleja, in the municipality of Moura, Portugal. It is one of the largest power stations of its kind, and is bu ...

, one of Europe's largest solar-power facilities.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (''

freguesias ''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...

''): *

Amareleja Amareleja ( or ) is a Portuguese civil parish of the municipality of Moura, in the district of Beja. The population in 2011 was 2,564, in an area of 108.56 km². History Archeological vestiges from the Roman epoch are found in the north of ...

* Moura (Santo Agostinho e São João Baptista) e Santo Amador * Póvoa de São Miguel * Safara e Santo Aleixo da Restauração * Sobral da Adiça

Climate

Moura has a

Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

with very hot, dry summers and mild winters. It is one of the driest areas in Portugal with just over of precipitation.

Town Twinning

Moura has cooperation agreements with the following cities: *

Aroche Aroche ( pt, Arouche) is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Huelva, Andalusia. According to the 2005 census, the town had a population of 3,319. History Similarly to Moura and Serpa, Aroche and Aracena may have been conquered ...

, Spain, since 1994 *

Bissau Bissau () is the capital, and largest city of Guinea-Bissau. Bissau had a population of 492,004. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, and its administrative and m ...

, Guinea-Bissau, since 1997 * Amareleja-Valencia del Mombuey, Spain, since 2000 *

Medjez El Bab Majaz al Bab ( ar, مجاز الباب), also known as Medjez el Bab, or as Membressa under the Roman Empire, is a town in northern Tunisia. It is located at the intersection of roads GP5 and GP6, in the ''Plaine de la Medjerda''. Commonwealth wa ...

, Tunisia, since 1995 * Roccagorga, Italy Other towns with the same name include: * Moura, Australia

Notable people

* Corino Andrade (1906–2005) a leading neurologist and researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) syndrome *

Eunice Muñoz Eunice Muñoz, Order of St. James of the Sword, OSE, Order of Infante D. Henrique, GCIH (30 July 1928 – 15 April 2022) was a Portuguese actress, considered one of the best Portuguese actresses ever. She was born in Amareleja, Portugal. She st ...

(born 1928 in Amareleja) a Portuguese actress Eunice Muñoz, IMDb Database
retrieved 10 June 2021. * Gonçalo Abecasis (born 1976) a Portuguese American biomedical researcher at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

* Miguel Garcia (born 1983) a former footballer with 228 club caps

Gallery

File:MouraPortal-CCBY.jpg, Moura, Portugal File:Safara_-_Moura.JPG, Moura, Portugal File:Rua ajardinada.jpg, Moura, Portugal File:HPIM1731.JPG, Moura, Portugal File:Sede da Junta de Freguesia de Santo Aleixo da Restauração.JPG, Moura, Portugal

References

External links

Town Hall official website
Cities in Portugal Populated places in Beja District Municipalities of Beja District {{Beja-geo-stub