Muro en Cameros

Muro en Cameros municipality
Muro en Cameros - the townscape
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	La Rioja
Comarca :	Tierra de Cameros
Coordinates	42 ° 13 ′  N , 2 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 13 ′  N , 2 ° 32 ′  W
Height :	1115  msnm
Area :	15.99 km²
Residents :	36 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	2.25 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	26134
Municipality number  ( INE ):	26101
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Website :	Muro en Cameros

Muro en Cameros is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) belonging to the populous Serranía Celtibérica with only 36 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of La Rioja in northern Spain .

Location and climate

The place Muro en Cameros is located in a side valley of the Río Leza about 45 km (driving distance) south of the provincial capital Logroño at an altitude of about 1115  m . Soria , the capital of the Old Castilian province bordering the Rioja to the south , is located approx. 68 km south. The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 625 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter months.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	221	232	198	40	39

As a result of the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of inhabitants in the mountain town has declined significantly since the middle of the 19th century ( rural exodus ).

economy

For centuries, the community was agriculturally oriented for the purpose of self-sufficiency , with livestock farming (milk, cheese, meat) in the foreground; Weaving products were made from the sheep's wool and could also be exchanged or sold. Today holiday apartments (casas rurales) are rented out mainly in the summer months .

history

Celtiberian , Roman , Visigoth and even Islamic-Moorish traces of settlement were not discovered in the municipality. The high-lying area served as summer pasture for sheep and goats for centuries . A military reconquest ( reconquista ) by the Christians did not take place, but the place was gradually settled as part of the Repoblación . Since around 1040 the area belonged to García Sánchez III. created manor (señorio) of the Tierra de Cameros . In the Middle Ages, the region was at times disputed between the kingdoms of Castile and Navarre . In 1366, the postulated Castilian king Henry of Trastamara gave the territory of the Cameros to his faithful Juan Ramírez de Arellano, the later Count of Aguilar, whose descendants ruled for a long time. After the abolition of the manors in 1811, it belonged to the province of Soria and only came to the newly created province of Logroño in 1833, from which the region of La Rioja later emerged.

Ermita de la Virgen del Cerro

Attractions

• The Iglesia de Santa Margarita was built in the 16th century; the side bell tower (campanario) was added around 1700. The single nave interior of the church is vaulted; The simple Romanesque font (pila bautismal) comes from the previous church .
• The simple Ermita de la Virgen del Cerro and the much larger Ermita de la Cruz del Monte are located a short distance from the town .

Web links

Commons : Muro en Cameros  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Muro en Cameros - Photos + short information (wikirioja, Spanish)
• Muro en Cameros - short information (spanish)

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. ↑ Muro en Cameros - population development
3. ↑ Muro en Cameros - History
4. ↑ Muro de Cameros - Church