Almudévar

Almudévar municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Huesca
Comarca :	Hoya de Huesca
Coordinates	42 ° 3 ′  N , 0 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 3 ′  N , 0 ° 35 ′  W
Height :	425  msnm
Area :	201.19 km²
Residents :	2,379 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	11.82 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	22270
Municipality number  ( INE ):	22021
administration
Mayor :	María Antonia Borderías Bescós ( PSOE )
Website :	www.almudevar.es

Almudévar ( Aragonese Almudébar or Almudébal ) is a municipality in the province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain . It is located in the comarca of Hoya de Huesca on the road from Huesca to Saragossa ( European route 7 and A-23 motorway - Autovía Mudéjar).

Parish parts

Almudévar includes next to the eponymous place the municipal parts

• Artasona del Llano
• San Jorge (2005 122 inhabitants)
• Torres Secas
• Valsalada, started by IRYDA in 1957.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1083 on the occasion of a donation by King Sancho I to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña .

population

Population development since 1900

year	1900	1910	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1986	1990	1999	2005
population	2,968	3,104	3,533	3,040	3.163	3,303	3,037	2,670	2,550	2,535	2,346	2,377

Attractions

Virgen de la Corona Hermitage

• Hermitage and castle of La Virgen de la Corona
• The Church of the Assumption of Mary
• The Cross of Santo Domingo

Community partnerships

• Lembeye (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France)

Personalities

• Francisco Ascaso (1901-1936), anarcho-syndicalist

Web links

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

• Almudévar in CAI-Aragón (Spanish)

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).