Guadalaviar (Teruel)

Guadalaviar municipality
Guadalaviar - town view
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Aragon
Province :	Teruel
Comarca :	Sierra de Albarracín
Coordinates	40 ° 23 ′  N , 1 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 23 ′  N , 1 ° 43 ′  W
Height :	1520  msnm
Area :	28.08 km²
Residents :	241 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.58 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	44110
Municipality number  ( INE ):	44120
administration
Website :	Guadalaviar

Spring of the Río Guadalaviar

Guadalaviar is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with 241 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the southwest of the province of Teruel in the autonomous region of Aragon in eastern central Spain .

Location and climate

The place Guadalaviar is located on the upper reaches of the Río Guadalaviar in the south of the Iberian Mountains about 73 km (driving distance) west of the city of Teruel at an altitude of about 1520  m . The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 615 mm / year) falls over the year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	380	392	518	287	241

The mechanization of agriculture as well as the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs led to a significant population decline ( rural exodus ) in the second half of the 20th century .

economy

For centuries the community lived exclusively from growing grain ( barley and wheat ), which was mainly operated for self-sufficiency ; livestock farming (sheep, goats, chickens) also took place to a small extent. The place Guadalviar served as a mercantile, artisanal and cultural center for the hamlets and farmsteads in its vicinity, which have now mostly disappeared. Today agriculture still plays the most important role; There is hardly any income from tourism.

history

In the 1st millennium BC Celtiberian tribal groups of the Lobetans probably settled in the region . Roman and Visigoth traces have not yet been discovered. During the phase of the gradual collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba , the Berber dynasty of the Banu Racin founded a short-lived Taifa emirate with the capital Albarracín . In the early 13th century the place became Christian.

Attractions

• The church of Santiago el Mayor is a three-aisled building from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century with a flat closing apse . In the main altar an equestrian image of the apostle James appears as the slayer of the Moors ( matamoros ) .
• There are several springs (fuentes) in the municipality .

Web links

Commons : Guadalaviar  - 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. ↑ Guadalaviar - climate tables
3. ↑ Guadalaviar - population development
4. ↑ Guadalaviar Church