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53-529: Les Preses ( Catalan pronunciation: [ləs ˈpɾɛzəs] ) is a village and municipality in the province of Girona and autonomous community of Catalonia , Spain. The municipality covers an area of 9.42 square kilometres (3.64 sq mi) and the population in 2014 was 1,772. This Province of Girona location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Provinces of Spain The boundaries of provinces can only be altered by

106-410: A Galician-Portuguese language, is a specially protected language and is spoken in the valley of Jálama . The Extremaduran language , the collective name for a group of vernacular dialects related to Leonese is endangered. Local variants of Portuguese are native to Cedillo and Herrera de Alcántara . Portuguese has also been accounted to be spoken as well by some people (mainly those born before

159-513: A saqaliba previously freed by Al-Hakam II . Conversely, the kingdoms of León , Castile and Portugal (most notably the first one) made advances in the 11th and 12th centuries across the territory (with for example the successive Leonese conquests of Coria in 1079 and 1142, the Portuguese attempts at expanding across the Guadiana basin in the second half of the 12th century, or

212-607: A "local entity" in the Constitution, the Provincial council belongs to the sphere of local government . The layout of Spain's provinces closely follows the pattern of the territorial division of the country carried out in 1833 . The only major change of provincial borders since that time has been the division of the Province of Canary Islands into the provinces of Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife . Historically,

265-599: A foreign population of 34,667. The Extremaduran population, according to the 1591 census of the provinces of the Kingdom of Castile , was around 540,000 people, making up 8% of the total population of Spain. No other census was performed until 1717, when 326,358 people were counted as living in Extremadura. From this period, the population grew steadily until the 1960s (1,379,072 people in 1960). After 1960, emigration to more prosperous regions of Spain and Europe drained

318-664: A lithium-ion battery factory participated by Envision in Navalmoral de la Mata was announced in June 2022. As of January 1, 2012, the population of Extremadura is 1,109,367 inhabitants, representing 2.36% of the Spanish population (46,745,807). The population density is very low—25/km (65/sq mi)—compared to Spain as a whole. The urban network is dominated by three municipalities between 50,000 and 200,000 inhabitants ( Badajoz , Cáceres and Mérida ), followed by Plasencia ,

371-613: A post currently held by María Guardiola of the People's Party . The Day of Extremadura is celebrated on 8 September. It coincides with the Catholic festivity of Our Lady of Guadalupe . The region, featuring an enormous energy surplus and hosting lithium deposits, is at the forefront of Spain's plans for energy transition and decarbonisation . Extremadura is contained between 37° 57 ′ and 40° 29 ′ N latitude, and 4° 39 ′ and 7° 33 ′ W longitude. The area of Extremadura

424-414: A power of 1,048.43 MW and 1,044.45 MW. The region is at the forefront of Spain's plans for energy transition and a decarbonisation , thanks to the installation of large solar power plants and the granting of lithium mining licenses. Such prospects sparked criticism and concern regarding how to avoid a "third energy colonisation" after those of the construction of reservoirs for hydroelectric use and

477-575: A status as 'old moriscos'. At the height of 1612, there were reports of remaining moriscos in Trujillo, Mérida and Plasencia. Located in the most able path from the Meseta Central to Portugal, the territory suffered greatly due to warfare from the 1640–1668 Portuguese Restoration War , characterised not by the movement of large armies but for pillage, skirmishes, raids, and destruction of economic resources and settlements across both sides of

530-484: A territorial subdivision ( kūra ) of the former polities centered on Mérida. Following the collapse of the Caliphate in the early 11th century during the so-called Fitna of al-Andalus and its ensuing fragmentation into ephemeral statelets ( taifas ), the bulk of the territory of current day Extremadura became part of the (First) Taifa of Badajoz ( Baṭalyaws ), centered around the namesake city and founded by Sapur ,

583-605: Is 41,633 km (16,075 sq mi), making it the fifth largest of the Spanish autonomous communities. It is located in the Southern Plateau (a subdivision of the Spanish Central Plateau ). The region is crossed from West to East by two large rivers, the Tagus and the Guadiana , lining up three basic areas from North to South by combining mountain ranges and rivers: the territory spanning from

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636-474: Is a landlocked autonomous community of Spain . Its capital city is Mérida , and its largest city is Badajoz . Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula , it is crossed from east to west by the Tagus and Guadiana rivers. The autonomous community is formed by the two largest provinces of Spain : Cáceres and Badajoz . Extremadura is bordered by Portugal to the west and by

689-513: Is the largest province in Spain. 413,766 people live in the province of Cáceres at a density of 20.83/km (53.9/sq mi), having an area of 19,868 km (7,671 sq mi), making it the largest province in Spain after Badajoz. As of 2020, the largest foreign community is that of Romanian nationals with 8,173 people, followed by Moroccans with 7,400. Portuguese account for 3,188, Chinese for 1,655 and Colombians make up 1,555. The region had

742-597: The Raya . The growing role of the fortified place of Badajoz (halfway between Lisbon and Madrid), in the wake of the installment of the Captaincy General of Extremadura consolidated the clout of the military in the region. By the late 18th century, the Extremaduran countryside languished, experiencing a deep crisis. There was a diminishing share of land dedicated to crops. The growing cattle sector induced

795-411: The "Pimentón de la Vera" PDO  [ es ] , consisting of the comarcas of La Vera, Campo Arañuelo, Valle del Ambroz and Valle del Alagón . The PDO produced 3,860 tonnes in 2020. About half the value of the regional industrial production belongs to the energy sector . Extremadura presents a huge energy surplus, producing about four times the energy it consumes. This situation has led to

848-807: The Alagón (rightbank) and the Almonte , Ibor , Salor and the Sever (leftbank). Regarding the Guadiana, important leftbank tributaries include Guadarranque and Ruecas and rightbank tributaries include the Zújar River and the Matachel . The highest point in Extremadura, the 2,401 m (7,877 ft) high Calvitero (or El Torreón), is located in the Sistema Central, in the northeastern end of

901-690: The Balearic Islands , La Rioja , and Navarre , and a name reduction in Las Palmas and Castellón — and biggest town —with the exception of Pontevedra ( Vigo ), Asturias ( Gijón ) and Cádiz ( Jerez ). Only two capitals of autonomous communities— Mérida in Extremadura and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia —are not also the capitals of provinces. Seven of the autonomous communities comprise no more than one province each: Asturias,

954-489: The Don Benito - Villanueva de la Serena conurbation and Almendralejo . Other municipalities with a population above 10,000 inhabitants include Zafra , Montijo , Villafranca de los Barros , Navalmoral de la Mata and Coria . The most populous province is that of Badajoz , with a population of 691,715 and a population density of 31.78/km (82.3/sq mi). With an area of 21,766 km (8,404 sq mi), it

1007-550: The Köppen climate classification ). Extremadura generally presents average annual temperatures somewhat warmer than most of the Iberian Peninsula, featuring nonetheless a north–south gradient. Annual thermal amplitude generally ranges from 16 to 19 °C. Average annual precipitation stands at around 600 mm. Parts of the Sistema Central presents more than 1,500 mm while it barely rains 400 mm in parts of

1060-567: The Provincial Deputation of Badajoz and the Provincial Deputation of Cáceres . The members of the plenary of the deputation are indirectly elected from among the municipal councillors based on the results of the municipal elections. In turn, the plenary elects the president of the deputation from among its members. The gross domestic product (GDP) of Extremadura was 20 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 1.7% of Spanish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power

1113-690: The Sistema Central to the Tagus, the so-called Mesopotamia extremeña in between the Tagus and the Guadiana and the territory from the Guadiana to Sierra Morena . Besides the catchment basins of the Tagus and the Guadiana covering most of the territory by far, fringe areas of the region are drained by the Douro (north) and the Guadalquivir (south). Notable Tagus tributaries include the Tiétar and

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1166-520: The autonomous community of Castile and León . In addition, organisations outside Spain use provinces for statistical analysis and policy making and in comparison with other countries including NUTS , OECD , FIPS , CIA World Factbook , ISO 3166-2 and the UN's Second Administrative Level Boundaries data set project (SALB). Most of the provinces are named after their capital town —with the exceptions of Álava , Asturias , Biscay , Cantabria , Gipuzkoa ,

1219-745: The tobacco produced in Spain, also being the leading European producing region. Tobacco production concentrates in La Vera and Campo Arañuelo . Tomato production (2,122,000 tonnes in 2017) primarily concentrates in the riverbanks of the Guadiana and the Alagón-Árrago. A large part of the region falls within the scope of the Ribera del Guadiana PDO , which is further divided in the Ribera Alta, Tierra de Barros , Matanegra, Ribera Baja, Montánchez, and Cañamero wine subregions. The PDO protects

1272-422: The wines made of several varieties of black and white grapes. As of 2021, Extremadura is the second largest rice producing region in Spain, after Andalusia. Due to drought and high water demands from rice fields, non-irrigated rice fields have been favoured since the late 2010s. Together with Murcia, Extremadura is a major producer of paprika , primarily destined to the Spanish market. Peppers are grown in

1325-489: The Balearic Islands, Cantabria, La Rioja, Madrid , Murcia , and Navarre. These are sometimes referred to as "uniprovincial" communities. Ceuta , Melilla , and the plazas de soberanía are not part of any province. The table below lists the provinces of Spain. For each, the capital city is given, together with an indication of the autonomous community to which it belongs and a link to a list of municipalities in

1378-602: The Castilian founding of Plasencia in 1186) not free from setbacks either caused by the Almoravid and Almohad impetus, which also entailed the demise of the first and second taifa of Badajoz in 1094 and 1150, respectively. In the Almohad case, their 1174 offensive removed Leonese control from every fortress south of the Tagus (including Cáceres ). After the Almohad disaster at the 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa ,

1431-548: The Granadan moriscos. Two generations later, the expulsion of the moriscos from the region began in 1609, starting with the moriscos of Hornachos, the first expulsion in the Crown of Castile. By September 1610 about two thirds of the moriscos of Extremadura had been already expelled and by 1611 the number amounted to 12,776. Those who avoided the early orders of expulsion abided to reports of being 'good Christians' or claimed

1484-537: The Spanish Parliament, giving rise to the common view that the 17 autonomous communities are subdivided into 50 provinces . In reality the system is not hierarchical but defined according to jurisdiction ( Spanish : competencias ). The body charged with government and administration of a province is the Provincial council , but their existence is controversial . As the province is defined as

1537-507: The Tagus is better suited for hydroelectric use than the Guadiana. As of 2021, the region has around 2,193.84 MW of installed hydroelectric power, primarily controlled by Endesa and Iberdrola , with a lesser role of Grupo Pitarch. The two reactors of the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant (which were put in operation in 1981 and 1983, respectively) are jointly operated by Endesa, Iberdrola and Naturgy . They generate

1590-725: The US, jamón ibérico directly from Extremadura, with bone, was illegal until around 2005. At that time, enough US restaurants were in demand for the delicacy that Spain decided to export it as boneless, which the US Department of Agriculture 's health codes would approve (and continue to do). 85 Extremaduran municipalities constitute the jurisdiction of the "Dehesa de Extremadura" Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), which protects jamones and paletas (hind and front pig legs) originated from Iberian pigs and mixed Iberian/ Duroc -Jersey pigs. As of 2021, Extremadura produces about 98% of

1643-580: The adoption of the system of autonomous communities in the period of the Spanish transition to democracy . They nevertheless remain electoral districts for national elections. Provinces are also used as geographical references: for instance in postal addresses and telephone codes. National media will also frequently use the province to disambiguate small towns or communities whose names occur frequently throughout Spain. A small town would normally be identified as being in, say, Valladolid province rather than

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1696-597: The autonomous communities of Castile and León (north), Castilla–La Mancha (east), and Andalusia (south). It is an important area for wildlife, particularly with the major reserve at Monfragüe , which was designated a National Park in 2007, and the International Tagus River Natural Park ( Parque Natural Tajo Internacional ). The regional government is led by the president of the Regional Government of Extremadura ,

1749-618: The building of nuclear power plants . Two of the largest photovoltaic power plants in Europe are located in the region: Francisco Pizarro (590 MW) in Torrecillas de la Tiesa and Núñez de Balboa (500 MW) in Usagre ; both are operated by Iberdrola, which is developing another 6 photovoltaic plants collectively amounting to 1,300 MW. The first solar thermal power plant in the region, Alvarado I , (50 MW) opened in 2009. A project to build

1802-624: The central western portion of the current day Spain. Mérida (now capital of Extremadura) became the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania, and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire . Like the bulk of the Iberian Peninsula, the territory was conquered by the Umayyads in the early 8th century . As part of the Emirate and later Caliphate of Córdoba , it largely constituted

1855-407: The characterization of Extremadura as a potential "colony" of the private electricity companies, which are not taxed in the region and employ a relatively low share of the industrial workforce. The Tagus is dammed in the reservoirs of Alcántara , Torrejón and Valdecañas whereas the Guadiana is dammed in the reservoirs of Cíjara , Puerto Peña , Orellana and Zújar. Due to the orographic conditions,

1908-505: The creation of yet more pastures, adding up to the structural problem stemmed from the extraordinary degree of concentration of land ownership . By the end of the Ancien Régime, the clergy, municipal councils and the royal army mattered more than the lesser role of the entitled nobility. Railways were developed in the second half of the 19th century. In September 1863, a passenger train arrived to Badajoz from Elvas , Portugal. It

1961-464: The effective expulsion of nearly a 40% of the population, particularly young people. A pre-autonomous government entity in Extremadura (the "Junta Regional de Extremadura") with jurisdiction over the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres was created by means of a 1978 law. The draft of the regional Statute of Autonomy began in 1980, the first step toward Extremadura becoming one of the Spanish autonomous communities . The text passed its final hurdle as it

2014-406: The industrialised areas of Spain (already started in 1955) as well as to richer European countries (such as Germany, France and Switzerland), both of which notably intensified after 1961, in the wake of the 1959 Stabilization Plan (and in the second case also after bilateral agreements reached with destination countries). The region henceforth was handed a demographic blow in the ensuing years, with

2067-555: The larger Montes de Toledo system. The Sierra Morena —the limit between Extremadura and Andalusia —and the Sierra de Tentudía (topping at 1,104 m (3,622 ft) on the Pico Tentudía ) rise in the south. There are four different hydrographic basins: The climate of Extremadura is predominantly hot-summer Mediterranean ( Csa in the Köppen climate classification ), with some regions being cold semi-arid ( BSk in

2120-486: The late Middle Ages, the territory of the current-day region consisted of mayorazgos of the military orders of Santiago and Alcántara (about half the territory), nobiliary lordships (about a quarter of the territory) and royal demesne towns (the other quarter of the territory). In between the 15th and 16th centuries, the concept of the Leonese and Castilian extremaduras diluted and the name eventually came to refer to

2173-532: The mid 20th century, the Francoist dictatorship pursued a policy of colonization and agrarian reform in the region to foster the economy, transforming thousands of hectares of dryland crops into irrigated lands, also favouring the erection of 63 new settlements by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (INC). The second half of the 20th century saw a massive rural flight out of the region, both to

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2226-468: The population. Extremadura is divided into 383 municipalities. 164 are part of the Province of Badajoz and the other 219 are part of the Province of Cáceres . There are also traditional comarcas in Extremadura, like Las Villuercas and Las Hurdes , but these do not have much official recognition. The only official language is Spanish (whose local dialects are collectively called Castúo ), but other languages and dialects are also spoken. The Fala ,

2279-441: The previous decade. Wild Black Iberian pigs roam in the area and consume acorns from oak groves. These pigs are caught and used for the cured ham dish jamón ibérico . The higher the percentage of acorns eaten by the pigs, the more valuable the ham. For example, jamón ibérico from pigs whose diet consists of 90% acorns or more can be sold for more than twice as much as ham whose pigs ate on average less than 70% acorns. In

2332-543: The province of Badajoz in August 1936 and left merciless repression and mass casualties behind. Badajoz was the Spanish province where the Francoist repression comparatively took the highest relative toll of victims during the war and the immediate Post-War period; there were around 12,000 executions in the province (out of the 14,000 in the whole region), compared to around 1,600 victims of the Republican repression. In

2385-439: The province of Badajoz. Summers are very hot and dry, with the rain concentrated in the cold months instead, leading to a high degree of water stress during the summer months. During the time of the Roman Empire , the area that is known today as Autonomous Community of Extremadura was part of Lusitania , a Roman province that included most of current day Portugal (except for the northern area today known as Norte Region ) and

2438-867: The province. The names of the provinces and their capitals are ordered alphabetically according to the form in which they appear in the main Misplaced Pages articles describing them. Unless otherwise indicated, their Spanish-language names are the same; locally valid names in Spain's other co-official languages ( Basque , Catalan , which is officially called Valencian in the Valencian Community , Galician ) are also indicated where they differ. Extremadura Extremadura ( / ˌ ɛ k s t r ə m ə ˈ dj ʊər ə / EK -strə-mə- DURE -ə ; Spanish: [e(ɣ)stɾemaˈðuɾa] ; Extremaduran : Estremaúra [ehtːɾemaˈuɾa] ; Portuguese : Estremadura ; Fala : Extremaúra )

2491-471: The provinces served mainly as transmission belts for policies enacted in Madrid, as Spain was a highly centralised state for most of its modern history. The provinces were the "building-blocks" from which the autonomous communities were created following processed defined in the 1978 Constitution . Consequently, no province is divided between these communities. The importance of the provinces has declined since

2544-515: The region, bordering with Castile and León. The main subranges of the Sistema Central in Extremadura are the Sierra de Gata and Sierra de Béjar . The modest heights of Sierra de las Villuercas (topping at 1,603 m (5,259 ft) on the Pico de las Villuercas ) rise in the Mesopotamia extremeña . Other notable ranges include the Sierra de Montánchez and the Sierra de San Pedro , part of

2597-490: The remaining part of current-day Extremadura under Muslim control fell to the troops led by Alfonso IX of León — Alcántara (1214), Cáceres (1227–1229), Mérida (1230), Badajoz (1230) —and later to the military orders of Santiago and Alcántara — Trujillo (1232), Medellín (1234) —on behalf of Ferdinand III of Castile . The last fortresses in the Lower Extremadura were conquered by Christians by 1248. By

2650-592: The territory of the current-day region. The territory lacked nonetheless shared government and administration institutions. In between 1570 and 1572, the Crown forcibly relocated about 11,000 moriscos into the territory as part of the deportation of Granadans that followed the defeat of the Alpujarras revolt . The distribution was somewhat chaotic although some places with an already "threatening" population of old moriscos (such as Hornachos , Magacela and Benquerencia ) were avoided as resettlement locations for

2703-579: Was 20,100 euros or 67% of the EU27 average in the same year. Extremadura was the community with the second lowest GDP per capita in Spain before Melilla . Export goods (mostly consisting of food and semimanufactures) are primarily sent to the European market , but there has been a growing share of non-EU export destinations throughout the 2010s. Balance of trade is generally positive. The unemployment rate stood at 17.3% in 2022, significantly lower than in

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2756-530: Was enshrined as Organic Law in 1982. The first election to the Assembly of Extremadura took place in May 1983. The Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura (enacted in 1983) is the fundamental organic law regulating the autonomous government, and it establishes the institutions through which the autonomous community exerts its powers: The government body for each of the provinces is the deputation ( diputación ):

2809-564: Was the first train in the region and the first international service in the Iberian Peninsula. In 1866, the Badajoz–Ciudad Real line  [ es ] was completed, enabling the link with Madrid. The Madrid–Valencia de Alcántara line , a new connection passing through the province of Cáceres, was fully completed in 1881. During the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War , the Nationalist faction Columna Madrid advanced quickly across

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