Bohonal de Ibor

Bohonal de Ibor parish
Bohonal de Ibor - ruins of a portico in Augustobriga
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Extremadura
Province :	Cáceres
Comarca :	Campo Arañuelo
Coordinates	39 ° 47 ′  N , 5 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 47 ′  N , 5 ° 29 ′  W
Height :	350  msnm
Area :	64.6 km²
Residents :	500 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	7.74 inhabitants / km²
Founding:	1489
Postal code :	10320
Municipality number  ( INE ):	10030
administration
Website :	Bohonal de Ibor

Bohonal de Ibor is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 500 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Cáceres in the autonomous region of Extremadura in southwestern Spain .

location

The place Bohonal de Ibor is located in a depression through which the Río Tajo flows south of the Sierra de Gredos and north of the Montes de Toledo a good 130 km (driving distance) northeast of the provincial capital Cáceres at an altitude of about 350 m above sea level. d. M. The Río Ibor runs about 10 km to the west; the border to the neighboring region of Castile-La Mancha is about 10 km to the east. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 400 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1842	1900	1950	2000	2016
Residents	k. A.	947	1,699	580	494

The significant population decline since the 1950s is mainly due to the mechanization of agriculture and the associated loss of jobs.

economy

The area has hardly any arable land. The cultivation of wheat and other crops used to serve mainly for self-sufficiency ; In addition, there were many uncultivated areas due to the lack of water, which are, however, suitable for extensive livestock farming ( sheep and goats ), even if in earlier centuries the herds were driven on drift paths (cañadas) in the higher mountain regions in central and northern Spain had to be.

history

As several, albeit badly damaged, dolmens prove, the municipality was already settled in the Neolithic Age. In Roman times , a connecting route between the important Roman cities of Emerita Augusta ( Mérida ), Caesarobriga ( Talavera de la Reina ), Toletum ( Toledo ) and Caesaraugusta ( Saragossa ) led along the banks of the Tagus; a small Roman town called Augustobriga (later called Talavera la Vieja ) arose here . The Visigoths left hardly any traces. The region was overrun by the Arabs and their Moorish auxiliaries in the 8th century ; However, there is no archaeological evidence. Merida and the surrounding area were occupied by the Castilian - Leonese troops of Alfonso IX around 1230 . Recaptured from the hands of the Moors ( reconquista ) and gradually settled by Christians from the north and refugees from Al-Andalus . The place Bohonal probably emerged only in the late 15th century.

Attractions

Cattle watering (abrevaderos)

• The single nave church of San Bartolomé dates from around 1500; its west facade is - apart from a simple bell gable (espadaña) - completely unadorned. The lower part of the masonry consists of precisely hewn granite stones ; the upper part is made of rubble stones. Two side portals lead into the nave , which is spanned by a new wooden ceiling. The clock tower was added in the 1920s.
• In a road several are cattle troughs (abrevaderos) admitted.

Surroundings

• The ruins of the Roman city of Augustobriga are located about 2.5 km north of today's town above the Valdecañas dam .

Web links

Commons : Bohonal de Ibor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bohonal de Ibor, Sightseeing - Photos (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).
2. ↑ Bohonal de Ibor - Map with altitude information
3. ↑ Bohonal de Ibor - Climate tables
4. ↑ Bohonal de Ibor - population development
5. ↑ Bohonal de Ibor - History
6. ↑ Bohonal de Ibor - Church