Baena (Cordoba)

Baena municipality
Casa del Monte in Baena
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Andalusia
Province :	Cordoba
Coordinates	37 ° 37 ′  N , 4 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 37 ′  N , 4 ° 20 ′  W
Area :	362.51 km²
Residents :	19,284 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	53.2 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	14850
Municipality number  ( INE ):	14007
administration
Website :	www.ayto-baena.es

Baena is a small Spanish town in the Andalusian province of Cordoba . The city is located in the comarca Guadajoz-Campiña Este and is the seat of the judicial district of Baena, which includes the municipalities of Luque , Valenzuela , the district of Albendín and seven individual farms.

location

Baena is located 62 kilometers southeast of the provincial capital Cordoba and can be reached from there on the national road N-432. Granada is 105 kilometers southeast of Baena and Jaén is 67 kilometers east .

The Guadajoz River flows across the municipality's territory from southeast to west and the Marbella tributary crosses the city center. The river is dry almost all year round. The highest elevations in the municipality are the mountains Torre Morana (688 meters), Almoguera (758 meters) and Serrezuela (799 meters)

etymology

It is named after Baius , a Roman landowner. The place name became the Arabic Bayyana under the Moors . There are numerous Ibero-Romanic remains in the municipality of Baena. B. in Torreparedones and in Izcar as well as on the hill Minguillar.

Population development

Population development
year	1991	1996	1998	2000	2002	2005	2007	2010	2012
Residents	20,423	18,736	20,057	19,725	19,784	20,447	21,138	20,862	20,266

Town twinning

Baena is twinned with San Carlos in Chile .

sons and daughters of the town

• Juan Alfonso de Baena (around 1375–1434), Castilian troubadour and song collector
• Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rojas (1729–1804), Spanish politician and military
• Domingo Henares (1765–1838) bishop in Indochina ( Tonkin ), executed, canonized in 1988.
• Julián Herranz (* 1930), retired Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Antonio Tapia (* 1949), soccer coach and former player

Web links

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

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. ^ Website San Carlos (Chile)