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 in the municipality. The municipal holiday is November 6.
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into ten civil parishes :- Alcobertas
- Arrouquelas
- Asseiceira
- Azambujeira e Malaqueijo
- Fráguas
- Marmeleira e Assentiz
- Outeiro da Cortiçada e Arruda dos Pisões
- Rio Maior
- São João da Ribeira e Ribeira de São João
- São Sebastião
Climate
Rio Maior has a Mediterranean climate 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
- Duarte da Silva Marques a triathlete, competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Pedro Oliveira a backstroke and butterfly swimmer, participated in the 2008 & 2012 Summer Olympics
- Miguel Carvalho a racewalker, took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics