Mandayona

Mandayona parish
Mandayona - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile-La Mancha
Province :	Guadalajara
Comarca :	La Alcarria
Coordinates	40 ° 57 ′  N , 2 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 57 ′  N , 2 ° 45 ′  W
Height :	865  msnm
Area :	33.18 km²
Residents :	294 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.86 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	19294
Municipality number  ( INE ):	19168
administration
Website :	Mandayona

Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol

Mandayona is a central Spanish city and a municipality ( municipio ) with a total of 294 inhabitants (as of January 1 2019) in the province of Guadalajara in the autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha . The municipality belongs to the sparsely populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica . Mandayona is located on the Ruta de la Lana, which was once often used by traders and pilgrims, and on the Camino del Cid, which was only developed for tourist reasons in the second half of the 20th century .

Location and climate

The almost 865  m high place Mandayona is located on the west side of the Iberian Mountains in the headwaters of numerous streams from which the Río Dulce , a tributary of the Río Henares , forms. The provincial capital Guadalajara is about 56 km (driving distance) in a south-westerly direction; the small town of Sigüenza, which is well worth seeing, is just under 19 km northeast. The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the rather low amounts of precipitation (approx. 475 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2019
Residents	642	913	886	430	294

Due to the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting loss of jobs, the population of the municipality has declined sharply since the middle of the 20th century ( rural exodus ). The hamlet (pedanía) Aragosa also belongs to the municipality .

economy

Due to the altitude of the community, farming was only possible to a very limited extent. That is why they devoted themselves - primarily to self-sufficiency - to livestock farming , whose durable or preserved products (animal skins and wool as well as cheese and sausages) were exchanged with traveling traders on the Ruta de la Lana or sold to them.

history

The origin of the place is in the dark. Originally the place was probably only a summer pasture for the cattle from the valley areas; a place developed very gradually.

Attractions

The Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol , built in the 16th century, is a single-nave building with a Renaissance portal and an enlarged apse opposite the nave , in which there is a baroque altar that is worth seeing.

literature

• Antonio Ortiz García and Manuel Rubio Fuentes: Historia de la Villa de Mandayona. AACHE, Guadalajara 2000, ISBN 84-95179-41-5 .

Web links

Commons : Mandayona  - 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. ↑ Mandayona / Sigüenza - climate tables
3. ↑ Mandayona - Population Development