Pradoluengo

Pradoluengo municipality
Pradoluengo - town view
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Castile and León
Province :	Burgos
Comarca :	Montes de Oca
Coordinates	42 ° 19 ′  N , 3 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 19 ′  N , 3 ° 12 ′  W
Height :	960  msnm
Area :	30.54 km²
Residents :	1,163 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	38.08 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	09260
Municipality number  ( INE ):	09274
administration
Website :	Pradoluengo

Pradoluengo is a place and a municipality ( municipio ) with about 1,163 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the east of the Spanish province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León . The municipality belongs to the poorly populated region of the Serranía Celtibérica .

Location and climate

The place Pradoluengo is located on the Río Pradoluengo, a tributary of the Río Tirón , at the foot of the Montes de Ayago near the border with the autonomous region of La Rioja about 47 km (driving distance) east of Burgos at an altitude of about 960  m . The climate is temperate to warm; Rain (approx. 630 mm / year) falls mainly in the winter half-year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1950	2000	2018
Residents	2,724	2,543	2,282	1,713	1,169

Due to the mechanization of agriculture , the abandonment of small farms and the resulting lower demand for labor, the number of inhabitants has declined sharply since the middle of the 20th century.

economy

Pradoluengo was on an important transit and trade route between Old Castile and the Rioja or Aragon . In addition, the exchange between the farmers of the plain and the ranchers of the nearby mountains took place here. From the 17th to the 19th century there was a textile production here that was known far beyond the region; the number of inhabitants rose to almost 3,000 in 1860. Today tourism plays an important role in the economic life of the municipality in the form of renting out holiday homes (casas rurales) .

history

The origin of the place goes back possibly to the Celtiberian tribes of the Autrigonians and Berons . Roman , Visigoth and even Moorish finds have not yet been made. The area used as summer pasture only possibly gained importance in the course of repopulation ( repoblación ) and then when it became the border area between the kingdoms of Navarre and Castile . Numerous Basque-Navarre place names and surnames still bear witness to the close ties to this area.

In 1720 Philip V. granted Pradolengo city rights. In 1822 the small town came to the newly founded province of Logroño (that is, to the Rioja), but this was reversed 11 years later.

Attractions

• The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción , built in the 1930s in the classicism style, is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary , which is evident in the main altar (retablo) . The three-nave church is vaulted with side lunettes .
• The town hall (Casa consistorial) , dating from 1843, was modernized in the 1930s.
• Most of the town's houses date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• A bullring (Plaza de Toros) is on the outskirts.

Web links

Commons : Pradoluengo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pradoluengo - Photos + Info (wikiburgos, 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. ↑ Pradoluengo / Belorado - climate tables
3. ↑ Pradoluengo - population development
4. ↑ Pradoluengo - history and economy