La Vellés
| La Vellés municipality | |||
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 Calle Mayor in La Vellés
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| coat of arms | Map of Spain | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : | Castile and Leon | ||
| Province : | Salamanca | ||
| Comarca : | La Armuña | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 4 ′ N , 5 ° 34 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 812 msnm | ||
| Area : | 25.50 km² | ||
| Residents : | 537 (Jan. 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 21.06 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 37427 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 37347 | ||
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| Mayor : | Francisco Antonio Bernal Nieto ( PSOE ) | ||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Plaza del Ayuntamiento 1, 37427 La Vellés |
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| Website : | www.lavelles.es | ||
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La Vellés is a western Spanish municipality ( municipio ) in the province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon . It is located about 15 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Salamanca and had 537 inhabitants in 2019.
geography
The area of the municipality is 25.5 km² and includes the capital as well as the somewhat secluded urbanization Urbanización Fuente Vieja. Outside the two localities, the community consists almost entirely of arable land and only a few homesteads are built on.
Population development
Like most other municipalities in the region, La Vellés also experienced a sharp decline in population in the second half of the 20th century, as a result of which the municipality had only 362 inhabitants in 1991. With the construction of the Urbanización Fuente Vieja housing estate, the population increased again to 537 in 2019.
| year | 1900 | 1920 | 1950 | 1970 | 1991 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1125 | 1178 | 931 | 685 | 362 | 441 | 576 | 549 |
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Buildings
- Iglesia de Santa Ana
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).