title: Mação
text: # Mação
  
  Mação (Portuguese pronunciation: (listen)) is a municipality in the Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,338, in an area of 399.98 km².
  
  The present Mayor is Vasco António Mendonça Sequeira Estrela, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.
  
  ## Parishes
  
  Administratively, the municipality is divided into 6 civil parishes (freguesias):
  
  * Amêndoa
  * Cardigos
  * Carvoeiro
  * Envendos
  * Mação, Penhascoso e Aboboreira
  * Ortiga
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * António Lino Neto (1873 in Mação – 1961) a Portuguese Catholic politician, lawyer and professor of Political Economy.
  * Duarte Marques (born 1981 in Mação) a Portuguese consultant, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic
  