Santarém District

The District of Santarém (Portuguese: Distrito de Santarém [sɐ̃tɐˈɾɐ̃j̃] (listen)) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's Centro Region. The district capital is the city of Santarém.

District of Santarém
District
Coat of arms
CountryPortugal
RegionInterior
and Alentejo
Historical provinceRibatejo
(partly Beira Baixa
and Beira Litoral)
No. of municipalities21
No. of parishes193
CapitalSantarém
Area
 • Total6,747 km2 (2,605 sq mi)
Population
 • Total475,344
 • Density70/km2 (180/sq mi)
ISO 3166 codePT-14
No. of parliamentary representatives10

The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of 6,747 km2 (2,605 sq mi), and a population of 475,344 inhabitants, giving it a population density of 70 people per sq. kilometer (180 people per sq. mile).

Municipalities

The district includes the following 21 municipalities.

Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2019

Summary of election results from Santarém district, 1976-2019

 
Parties%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S%S
1976 1979 1980 1983 1985 1987 1991 1995 1999 2002 2005 2009 2011 2015 2019
PS38.4627.3330.4438.4518.6221.7329.4345.8545.5538.4446.1633.7425.9332.9337.14
PSD19.53In AD24.7327.8447.9749.1631.0330.2338.1426.4327.0337.65In PàF25.23
CDS-PP13.9210.017.713.63.38.718.118.416.911.2112.314.7
PCP/APU/CDU16.1221.7319.0220.0316.4212.619.819.5110.118.618.619.219.019.617.61
AD41.0642.16
PRD23.837.311.0
BE2.02.86.511.815.810.8110.21
PàF35.84
Total seats1312109
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições

Archeology
the Aroeira 3 skull of a 400,000 year old Homo Heidelbergensis,
The oldest trace of human history in Portugal.

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.[1][2][3][4]

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gollark: It might be true in some ridiculously broadly defined sense, but it then loses any actual utility.
gollark: Sure I do. Your abstract thinking is just bad. Some offense.
gollark: Some systems will conveniently go back to an equilibrium regardless of how hard you poke them. Some will not, and might just vary wildly or get stuck in one state or whatever.
gollark: That isn't actually true except in specific technical contexts.

See also
  • Arripiado, a village in the district of Santarém

References
  1. Phys Org, March 13, 2017, 400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in Portugal
  2. Joan Daura et al.: New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal). In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Online pre-release of 13 March 2017.
  3. The primitive man from Portugal, Article from 16 March 2017 des Hamburger Abendblatt, accessed on March 22, 2017
  4. 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

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