Carcedo de Bureba

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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Castile LeonCastile and León Castile and León
Province : Burgos
Comarca : La Bureba
Coordinates 42 ° 35 ′  N , 3 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 35 ′  N , 3 ° 30 ′  W
Height : 780  msnm
Area : 42.66 km²
Residents : 42 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 0.98 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 09592
Municipality number  ( INE ): 09071
administration
Website : Carcedo de Bureba

Carcedo de Bureba is a northern Spanish town with about 10 and the main town of a rural community ( municipio ) with only 42 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile-León . The municipality also includes the two hamlets (pedanías) Arconada and Quintana-Urria .

Location and climate

The place Carcedo de Bureba is located in the north of the La Bureba region at an altitude of about 770  m . The provincial capital Burgos is a good 35 km (driving distance) to the southwest; Briviesca , the main town in the region, is located approx. 22 km to the east. The climate in winter is harsh, but in summer it is temperate and warm; the rain, which is abundant by Spanish standards (approx. 740 mm / year), falls mainly in the winter months.

Population development

year 1857 1900 1950 2000 2017
Residents 434 382 359 49 41

The mechanization of agriculture and the closure of smaller farms have led to a loss of jobs and thus to a migration of people to the larger cities ( rural exodus ) since the middle of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries, the inhabitants of the community lived mainly from agriculture (agriculture, viticulture and small livestock farming) as a self-sufficient living ; only since the middle of the 20th century has it been produced for the national market. Tourism in the form of rental of holiday homes (casas rurales) has also played a certain role in the municipality's income since the 1960s.

history

The landscape of the Bureba was already known to the people of the Stone Age and ancient times as a much-used connecting route; Celts from the tribe of the Autrigones settled here and the Romans called their later settlement near the present-day Monasterio de Rodilla Tritium Autrigonum . In the 8th and early 9th centuries, the area was under Islamic influence, but the area was neither permanently settled nor defended by the Berbers due to the unusually harsh and rainy climate . At the end of the 9th century, the Castilian Count Diego Rodríguez Porcelos received from King Alfons III. of Asturias the order to repopulate ( repoblación ) the depopulated area.

Attractions

Carcedo de Bureba
Church of the hamlet of Quintana-Urria
Arconada
  • The single-nave church, which stands on a hill above the village about 5 km northwest of Carcedo, is also St. Consecrated to Eulalia of Mérida ; it is partly Romanesque (bell tower) and partly Gothic (nave and apse ). The altarpiece formerly in the church is now in the Museo del Retablo in Burgos.
Quintana Urria
  • The church in the hamlet of Quintana-Urria, about 7 km southeast, is perhaps the most beautiful in the community. A south vestibule, which was added later, with benches, protects the formerly colored portal.

Web links

Commons : Carcedo de Bureba  - 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. ↑ Carcedo de Bureba - climate tables
  3. ^ Carcedo de Bureba - population development
  4. ↑ Carcedo de Bureba - Church