Galaroza

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Galaroza municipality
View from the Avenida de los Carpinteros
View from the Avenida de los Carpinteros
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Galaroza coat of arms
Galaroza (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Andalusia
Province : Huelva
Coordinates 37 ° 56 ′  N , 6 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 56 ′  N , 6 ° 42 ′  W
Height : 568  msnm
Area : 22.27 km²
Residents : 1,379 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density : 61.92 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 21291
Municipality number  ( INE ): 21034
Nearest airport : Huelva
administration
Official language : Castilian
Mayor : Antonio Sosa Muñiz ( PSOE )
Website : www.galaroza.org

Galaroza is a Spanish municipality in the province of Huelva in Andalusia . The community is known for its water and handicraft woodwork.

Geographical location

Galaroza is located around 60 km north of the city of Huelva in the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche National Park . The nature of the terrain meant that Galaroza was arranged in the form of an arch to the north around the Santa Brígida hill .

Administrative structure

Galaroza belongs to the Mancomunidad Ribera de Huelva . In addition to the main town, the hamlets of Las Chinas and Navehermosa belong to the municipality .

history

Galaroza

No evidence of prehistoric settlement was found.

The origin of the community is unclear. It could be an Arab foundation from the time of al-Andalus . The name could come from the Arabic Al-Jaroza . The term has different meanings: valley of the roses, valley of the evergreen, valley of the bride. Legend has it that a Berber prince named Ysmail got lost in the forest while looking for a woman who had bewitched him.

Up to and including the 12th century, the community belonged to Arab rule. It belonged to Portugal in the 13th century until it fell to the Kingdom of Castile with the Treaty of Badajoz in 1267 . In the Middle Ages it was part of the judicial district of Aracena . In 1553 it became independent. At that time, it included the villages of Fuenteheridos, Las Vegas, Cortegrullo and Las Cañadas in addition to the current districts.

In 1594 Galaroza and its villages belonged to the Kingdom of Seville in the Sierra de Arroche. It had 290 taxable citizens.

In the 1842 census it was called Galarosa .

Manufacture of wicker chairs in Galaroza

Historical buildings

  • Parish Church of Purísima Concepción , 17th century.
  • San Sebastián Chapel , 18th century
  • Santa Brígida Chapel , 14th century
  • Fuente de doce caños (Fountain with twelve tubes), 1898

population

In the last few decades the population of the municipality has shrunk, as the following series of numbers shows:

Population development
year 1842 1877 1887 1897 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1981 1991 2001 2011 2017
Residents 1,824 2,375 2,410 2,647 2,683 2,861 2,851 2,792 2,748 2,586 2,642 2.224 1,844 1,603 1,618 1,565 1,409
Inhabitants per district (2014)
settlement Male Female total
Galaroza 1443 705 738
Las Chinas 18th 10 8th
Navahermosa 42 25th 17th

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Galaroza  - 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. ^ Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas, Portal de entidades locales
  3. ↑ Galaroza. In: Guía digitál del patrimonio culturál de Andalucía. Junta de Andalucía, Retrieved May 8, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Libro de los Millones : Census of the provinces and parts of the Kingdom of Castile in the 16th century
  5. ^ INE : Cifras de población y Censos demográficos. ( ine.es ).
  6. ↑ INE: Nomenclator : Población del Padrón Continuo por Unidad Poblacional.