Rio Maior () is a municipality in the
Santarém District
The District of Santarém ( pt, Distrito de Santarém ) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal'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 po ...
in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,192, in an area of 272.76 km².
The present mayor is
Isaura Morais
Isaura Morais (born 1966) is a Portuguese politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), Morais was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Santarém constituency and re-elected in J ...
of the
Social Democratic Party (PSD), the first woman to be elected mayor in the municipality. The municipal holiday is November 6.
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into ten 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 ...
''):
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Alcobertas
Alcobertas is a civil parish in the municipality of Rio Maior, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,923,[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 warm to hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Rio Maior registered a temperature of on 4 August 2018
and on January and February.
Notable people
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Duarte da Silva Marques (born 1983 in Rio Maior) a triathlete, competed at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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Pedro Oliveira (born 1988 in Rio Maior) a backstroke and butterfly swimmer, participated in the
2008
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&
2012 Summer Olympics
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Miguel Carvalho (born 1994) a racewalker, took part in the
2016 Summer Olympics
References
External links
Town Hall official websitePhotos from Rio Maior
Cities in Portugal
Populated places in Santarém District
Municipalities of Santarém District
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