The District of Santarém ( pt, Distrito de Santarém ) is a district of Portugal, located in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of th ...

's ''Centro Region''. The district capital is the city of Santarém. The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of , and a population of 475,344 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 70 people per sq. kilometer (180 people per sq. mile). Once part of the historical region of Ribatejo, the district was created by order of the European Union, not taking into consideration historical boundaries or cultures.

Municipalities

The district includes the following 21 municipalities. *

Abrantes Abrantes () is a municipality in the central Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal. The population was 39,325, in an area of . The municipality includes several parishes divided by the Tagus River, which runs through the middle of the municipalit ...

Alcanena Alcanena () is a portuguese town and municipality of Ribatejo in Santarém District. The population in 2011 was 13,868, in an area of 127.33 km². The current Mayor is Rui Anastácio (Partido Social Democrata) and the president of the Munici ...

* Almeirim *

Alpiarça Alpiarça () is a municipality in Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,702, in an area of 95.36 km2. The present Mayor is Mário Fernando Pereira and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Mario Santiago. The munic ...

* Benavente * Cartaxo * Chamusca * Constância * Coruche * Entroncamento * Ferreira do Zêzere * Golegã * Mação * Ourém *

Rio Maior Rio Maior () is a municipality in the Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,192, in an area of 272.76 km². The present mayor is Isaura Morais of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the first woman to be elected mayor ...

* Salvaterra de Magos * Santarém * Sardoal *

Tomar Tomar (), also known in English as Thomar (the ancient name of Tomar), is a city and a municipality in the Santarém district of Portugal. The town proper has a population of about 20,000. The municipality population in 2011 was 40,677, in an a ...

Torres Novas Torres Novas () is a Portuguese municipality in the district of Santarém, in the Médio Tejo of the Centro region. The population of the municipality was approximately 36,717 (from the 2011 census), with the city of Torres Novas (seat of the mu ...

* Vila Nova da Barquinha

Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2022

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Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Archeology

The

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Almonda Almonda is a Portuguese village of around 300 inhabitants in the civil parish of Zibreira, within the municipality of Torres Novas and the Santarém District. The village was named after the river Almonda, whose source is located nearby. Almonda ...

, within the civil parish of

Zibreira Zibreira is a civil parish in Portugal, located within the municipality of Torres Novas, in the Santarém District. It is noted for the Aroeria cave, where the Aroeira 3 skull of a 400,000 year old Homo Heidelbergensis was found, being the oldes ...

, is noted for the Aroeira cave, where the 400,000 year old

Aroeira 3 Aroeira 3 is a 400,000 year old ''Homo heidelbergensis'' hominid skull which was discovered in the Aroeira cave, Portugal. It is the earliest human trace in Portugal. ''H. heidelbergensis'' existed at the transition between ''Homo erectus'' and e ...

skull of a

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was discovered in 2014. It is the oldest trace of human habitation in

.Phys Org, March 13, 2017, 400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in Portugal
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et al.: ''New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal).'' In: ''

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(PNAS)'' Online pre-release of 13 March 2017.The primitive man from Portugal, Article from 16 March 2017 des

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, accessed on March 22, 2017''Crânio de 400 mil anos é o fóssil humano mais antigo descoberto em Portugal''
400,000 year old skull found the oldest human fossil in Portugal, Article from 13. March 2017 he Portuguese newspaper Público, accessed on March 22, 2017

References

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Municipalities

Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2022

Archeology

See also

References