Cabrejas del Campo

Cabrejas del Campo municipality
San Pedro Apóstol in Ojuel
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and Leon
Province :	Soria
Comarca :	Campo de Gomara
Coordinates	41 ° 41 ′  N , 2 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 41 ′  N , 2 ° 16 ′  W
Height :	991  msnm
Area :	17.87 km²
Residents :	53 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	2.97 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	42131
Municipality number  ( INE ):	42044
administration
Website :	Cabrejas del Campo

Cabrejas del Campo is a municipality and a town ( municipio ) with 53 inhabitants (1 January 2019) in the province of Soria in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and Leon in Spain .

location

The place Cabrejas del Campo is about 28 kilometers (driving distance) southeast of the provincial capital Soria near the border to the neighboring province of Saragossa at an altitude of about 990 meters above sea level. d. M .; to Calatayud it is another 72 kilometers to the southeast.

Population development

year	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2010
Residents	280	161	107	97	86	71

After Ojiol was incorporated in the 19th century, the community always had around 200 to 300 inhabitants. The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the resulting loss of jobs in rural areas have contributed to a large extent to the significant population decline ( rural exodus ) in recent decades.

economy

The basis of the life and survival of the self-sufficient residents of Cabrejas del Campo for centuries was and is agriculture, which also includes cattle breeding to a lesser extent. Tourism plays almost no role.

history

Celts , Romans , Visigoths and Moors left no traces on the territory of the municipality. The 11th century is characterized by the Christian reconquest ( reconquista ) and resettlement ( repoblación ) the area that until the Peace of Almazán equally from the (1375) Kingdom of Aragon and Castile was claimed.

Attractions

Cabrejas del Campo

• The parish church ( Iglesia de San Juan Bautista ) is a building in the transitional style from late Gothic to Renaissance . The tower front of the west facade is unadorned and portalless; the entrance portal is on the south side. The church is single-nave; the main altar ( retablo ) is made of colored stone.
• The Ermita de la Virgen de la Amorosa is located just outside the village .

Ojiol

• The small Romanesque church of San Pedro Apóstol in the district of Ojiol is - with the exception of the apse , the portal and the corner stones - built of rubble stones ( mampostería ).

Web links

Commons : Cabrejas del Campo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cabrejas del Campo, church - photo + info (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).