The União das Freguesias de Moura (Santo Agostinho e São João Baptista) e Santo Amador is located in the municipality of Moura, in the district of Beja, in the Baixo Alentejo region. It covers 287.42 km² and has 8,039 inhabitants (2021 census). It was created on 28 January 2013, as part of the 2012/2013 administrative reorganisation, through the merger of the former parishes of Santo Agostinho and São João Baptista, in the town of Moura, and Santo Amador, a village that had previously been the seat of its own parish.
history
The parish was created on 28 January 2013 (Lei n.º 11-A/2013), bringing together the former parishes of Santo Agostinho e São João Baptista, in Moura, and Santo Amador. Santo Amador, with 72.63 km² and 412 inhabitants in 2011, appears in 1600 in tax records as Barrada, an independent parish, and in the Memórias Paroquiais of 1758 as 'Barrada de Santo Amador'; the village grew around the parish church, dedicated to Santo Amador.
