Las Aldehuelas

Las Aldehuelas municipality
Hamlet of Valloria
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Soria
Comarca :	Tierras Altas
Coordinates	42 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 0 ′  N , 2 ° 22 ′  W
Height :	1250  msnm
Area :	37.79 km²
Residents :	64 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	1.69 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	42146
Municipality number  ( INE ):	42014
administration
Website :	Las Aldehuelas

Las Aldehuelas is a municipality ( municipio ) with a total of 5 hamlets (pedanías) with 64 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the northeast of the Spanish province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile-León .

Location and climate

The hamlets of the municipality are all located in the headwaters of the Río Cidacos in the Sierra de Alba in the northeast of the province of Soria at an altitude of approx. 1200 to 1300  m . The distance to the southwestern provincial capital Soria is approx. 35 km (driving distance). The climate is temperate; Rain (approx. 675 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2017
Residents	516	411	424	120	65

The increasing mechanization of agriculture as well as the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs have contributed greatly to the significant population decline since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

The community is largely agricultural, with sheep and goat breeding and the milk and cheese industry playing important roles. In the last decades of the 20th century, tourism in the form of renting holiday apartments (casas rurales) was added as a source of income. In 2005, a wind farm consisting of 59 systems with an installed capacity of 47,200 kW was put into operation.

history

Little is known about the history of the community, which belonged to the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Yanguas in the Middle Ages . The hamlets of Las Aldehuelas , Los Campos , Ledrado , Valloria and Villaseca Somera have been part of the municipality since the 19th century .

Attractions

• The houses of the community are made of quarry stone material, which in earlier times was sealed against the weather by a little earth. In the second half of the 20th century, the earth was mostly replaced by cement mortar.
• The small churches are made of the same building material. The two Romanesque village churches of Valloria and Los Campos are worth mentioning .

Web links

Commons : Las Aldehuelas  - 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. ↑ Las Aldehuelas - population development
3. ↑ Las Aldehuelas - wind farm
4. ↑ Las Aldehuelas - Churches of Valloria and Los Campos