Santarém District


The District of 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 population of 475,344 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 70 people per sq. kilometer.

Municipalities

The district includes the following 21 municipalities.
Summary of election results from Santarém district, 1976-2019
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Archeology

The village of Almonda, within the civil parish of Zibreira, is noted for the Aroeira cave, where the 400,000 year old Aroeira 3 skull of a Homo Heidelbergensis was discovered in 2014. It is the oldest trace of human habitation in Portugal.