Acebo (Cáceres)

Acebo municipality
Acebo - Church of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Extremadura
Province :	Cáceres
Comarca :	Sierra de Gata
Coordinates	40 ° 12 ′  N , 6 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 12 ′  N , 6 ° 43 ′  W
Height :	525  msnm
Area :	57.02 km²
Residents :	579 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	10.15 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	10857
Municipality number  ( INE ):	10003
administration
Website :	Acebo

Acebo is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 579 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the north of the province of Cáceres in the autonomous region of Extremadura in western Spain .

location

The place Acebo is on the Arroyo de Lágina a good 100 km (driving distance) northwest of the provincial capital Cáceres at an altitude of about 525  m . in the northwest of the municipality rises the third highest mountain in the region, the approx. 1490 m high Pico Jálama . The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 700 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	1,770	1,713	2,855	806	601

The significant population decline since the 1950s is essentially due to the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the associated loss of jobs.

economy

The fertile but stony soils in the area provided the basis for the cultivation of wheat and other crops for the inhabitants who, in earlier times, were mainly self-sufficient . Cattle breeding was also practiced to a large extent. Traders, craftsmen and service providers of all kinds gradually settled in the town itself. Today summer tourism plays a major economic role.

history

Bronze , Iron Age , Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish finds are extremely rare. The region was occupied by the Castilian - Leonese troops of Alfonso IX around the year 1200 . (r. 1188–1230) "recaptured" ( reconquista ) and successively (re) settled ( repoblación ) by Christians from the north and by refugees from Al-Andalus ; its administration was entrusted to the Alcántara Order . The first mention of the name dates back to 1235. A few years later, which took over the diocese Coria , the basic rule (señorio) .

Attractions

Puente de Carrecía

• The Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles church dates back to the 16th century and still has some Gothic reminiscences. The single-aisled interior of the church, covered by star vaults, is transverse - and therefore also without four . In the flat closing apse is a classicist altarpiece (retablo) from the late 18th or early 19th century; two further altars in the style of late baroque Churriguerism stand on the side walls.
• The Ermita del Cristo also dates from the 16th century.
• There are some unspectacular aristocratic houses and several fountains (fuentes) spread across the town .

Surroundings

• About 300 m outside the village are the ruins of a former Franciscan convent .
• A two-arched medieval stone bridge (Puente de Carrecía) crosses the Arroyo de San Blás stream .
• A 65 m high waterfall (Cascada de La Cervigona) can be easily reached on a hike.
• The Pico Jálama , approx. 18 km away, can be hiked as part of a day tour .

Personalities

• Andrés Hernández (around 1527–1607), conquistador , was born in Acebo and died in Venezuela .

Web links

Commons : Acebo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Acebo, tourism site - photos + information (Spanish)
• Acebo photos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Acebo - climate tables
3. ↑ Acebo - population development
4. ^ Acebo story