Carabaña

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Carabaña municipality
Carabaña - Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Carabaña - Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
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Carabaña coat of arms
Carabaña (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : MadridMadrid Madrid
Comarca : Comarca de Las Vegas
Coordinates 40 ° 15 ′  N , 3 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 15 ′  N , 3 ° 14 ′  W
Height : 625  msnm
Area : 47.58 km²
Residents : 2.010 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 42.24 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 28560
Municipality number  ( INE ): 28035
administration
Website : Carabaña

Carabaña is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 2,010 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the southeast of the autonomous community of Madrid . The municipality belongs to the cultural landscape of the Alcarria .

Location and climate

The approximately 625  m high place Carabaña is located on the Río Tajuña a good 51 km southeast of the Spanish capital Madrid ; the places worth seeing Tielmes and Valdilecha are only about 8 to 10 km to the west and northwest respectively. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 455 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2019
Residents 1,655 1,962 2,085 1,118 2.010

Due to the mechanization of agriculture and the abandonment of small farms, the population of the municipality has decreased significantly since the 1950s, despite its location in the greater Madrid area. Only at the beginning of the 21st century can we see an increase again.

economy

For centuries the people in the region lived on a self-sufficient basis; Only foods that could be kept or preserved by salting or drying, such as olive oil , cheese, sausages, ham, animal skins, etc., were exchanged for other goods or sold at traveling traders. Today Carabaña is one of the most important producers of olive oil in the Comunidad de Madrid .

history

A cave settlement of the Celtiberians already existed here in pre-Roman times . Plutarch mentions a place called Caraca , the exact location of which is unknown, but is located by some in the valley of the Río Tajuna and could therefore be identical with Carabaña; Others see an excavation site in the area of ​​the municipality of Driebes, about 20 km to the east, as the location they are looking for. Later there was also a Visigoth settlement here , which was taken over by the Moors in the 8th century . During the recapture ( reconquista ) of the cities of Toledo (1085) and Alcalá (1118) also fell Caravanna into the hands of the Christians, but you had to the late 12th and early 13th century still with army groups of the Almohad deal. Then the place came under the rule of the Archbishop of Toledo ; It was not until 1557 that it received town charter (Villazgo) , but a little later it belonged to the manor of the Genoese merchant family Lomelín.

Attractions

Carabaña - Roman altar stone on the Ermita de Santa Lucía
  • The three-nave Assumption 's Church (Iglesia de la Nuestra Señora de la Asunción) comes from the 16th century. After the interior decoration was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War , it was recreated in the 1950s; Only an unadorned baptismal font (pila bautismal) from the Visigothic period remained.
  • The fountain (fuente) on the main square was built in the 18th century after Charles III. named.
  • The so-called Palacio del Virrey is a brick building in the Mudejar style of the 16th century.
  • The five-arched stone bridge over the Tajuña River dates from the 17th century; some of the pillar foundations date from Roman times.
Surroundings
  • There are prehistoric caves in the surrounding area.
  • The Ermita de Santa Lucia is just outside the village .

Web links

Commons : Carabaña  - 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. Carabaña / Chinchón - climate tables
  3. Carabaña - population development
  4. Carabaña - History
  5. Carabaña - Church
  6. Carabaña Bridge
  7. Carabaña - Ermita