Santarém

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Santarém

Total population

30,017

Coordinates39.24°, -8.69°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Santarém is a Portuguese city and municipality located in the district of Santarém. The population of the historic Ribatejo capital in 2021 was 58,671, in an area of 552.54 km2. The population of the city proper was 29,929 in 2012.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Ferdinand I of Portugal

King of Portugal

Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu

Portuguese prince

Luís de Sousa Rebelo

Portuguese writer

Rui Silva

Portuguese middle and long-distance runner

Vera Santos

Portuguese athletics competitor (born 1981)

Cristina Branco

Portuguese singer

Ana Moura

angolan-Portuguese fado singer (b.1979)

Ferdinand the Holy Prince

infante of the Kingdom of Portugal (1402–1443)

J

John of Biclaro

Visigoth bishop and chronicler

Estácio de Sá

Portuguese soldier; first Governor of Rio de Janeiro

Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquis of Sá da Bandeira

Portuguese politician (1795–1876)

Bernardo Santareno

Portuguese writer (1924–1980)

John, Constable of Portugal

Portuguese prince and Constable of Portugal (1400–1442)

Gonçalo da Silveira

Portuguese Jesuit missionary (1526-1561)

Fernão Lopes de Castanheda

Portuguese historian

I

Ibn Bassam

Arab Andalusian historian and poet (1058–1147)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Santarém

Estudos de uma imagem de São Sebastião

Convento de S. Francisco de Santarém (Santarém, Santarém, Portugal) · 1997

Confederados em Santarém

Norma Guilhon · 1987

Património recuperado

Jornadas de Conservação e Restauro (1st 2016 Santarém, Santarém, Portugal) · 2017

O alfageme de Santarem

Almeida Garrett · 1842

Santarém medieval

Maria Angela V. da Rocha Beirante · 1980

Santarém quinhentista

Maria Angela V. da Rocha Beirante · 1981

Santarém, seu desenvolvimento histórico

Arthur Cézar Ferreira Reis · 1979

Frei Gil de Santarem

Teófilo Braga · 1905

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Moorish Gecko

Tarentola mauritanica

Seen 2026-09-22

Yellow Belle

Aspitates ochrearia

Seen 2026-09-22

common water hyacinth

Pontederia crassipes

Seen 2026-09-22

Iberian Painted Frog

Discoglossus galganoi

Seen 2026-09-22

Iberian Green Frog

Pelophylax perezi

Seen 2026-09-22

Pumpkinseed

Lepomis gibbosus

Seen 2026-09-21

European Robin

Erithacus rubecula

Seen 2026-09-21

European Pied Flycatcher

Ficedula hypoleuca

Seen 2026-09-21

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).