Moura, Portugal

Moura
Moura
	Municipality
	Flag Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 38°08′N 7°27′W
Country	Portugal
Region	Alentejo
Intermunic. comm.	Baixo Alentejo
District	Beja
Parishes	8
Government
• President	Santiago Macias (CDU)
Area
• Total	958.46 km2 (370.06 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	15,167
• Density	16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Local holiday	Saint John; June 24
Website	http://www.cm-moura.pt

Moura (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmowɾɐ] (listen)) is a city and a municipality in the District of Beja in Portugal, subdivided into 5 smaller states. The population in 2011 was 15,167,[1] in an area of 958.46 km².[2] The city itself had a population of 8,459 in 2001.[3] It has now around 11,000 inhabitants.

The current Mayor is José Pós de Mina, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition. The municipal holiday is 24 June.

It is home to Moura Photovoltaic Power Station, one of Europe's largest solar-power facilities.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (freguesias):[4]

Amareleja
Moura (Santo Agostinho e São João Baptista) e Santo Amador
Póvoa de São Miguel
Safara e Santo Aleixo da Restauração
Sobral da Adiça

Town Twinning

Moura has cooperation agreements with the following cities:[5]

Aroche, Spain, since 1994
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, since 1997
Amareleja-Valencia del Mombuey, Spain, since 2000
Medjez El Bab, Tunisia, since 1995
Roccagorga, Italy

Other towns with the same name include:

Moura, Australia

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References

Instituto Nacional de Estatística
"Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)
Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 79" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 July 2014.
"Twinning Cities and Towns: Moura" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [National Association of Portuguese Municipalities]. Retrieved 12 July 2020.

External links

Town Hall official website

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[1] Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[dgt-2] "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.

[3] UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)

[4] Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 79" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 July 2014.

[5] "Twinning Cities and Towns: Moura" (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses [National Association of Portuguese Municipalities]. Retrieved 12 July 2020.