Country Spain Comarca Campo Arañuelo Elevation 258 m (846 ft) Area 60 km² Local time Thursday 8:23 AM | Autonomous community Extremadura Municipality Saucedilla Demonym(s) naveros Population 847 (2014) Province Province of Cáceres | |
Weather 3°C, Wind SW at 8 km/h, 89% Humidity |
(This is a summary and approximate translation of the article of Spanish Wikipedia)
Contents
- Map of 10390 Saucedilla CC3A1ceres Spain
- Geography and nature
- Dehesa
- Arrocampo Reservoir
- Caada Real Leonesa Occidental main droveway of Western Len
- Irrigated lands
- Special Protection Areas
- Arrocampo Ornithological Park
- Demography
- History
- Monuments
- References
Map of 10390 Saucedilla, C%C3%A1ceres, Spain
Saucedilla is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), it has a population of 859 inhabitants. It belongs to the Campo Arañuelo County (Comarca del Campo Arañuelo), the capital of which is Navalmoral de la Mata.
Geography and nature
The situation of Saucedilla is impressive. In the north, the vast bulk of the Sierra de Gredos and the Tiétar River; in the south and west, the Miravete Sierra (Casas de Miravete), the Tagus River (Tajo in Spanish) and the Serrejón Sierra. The climate is Mediterranean. The village stands in an extensive plain of clayey grounds.
Dehesa
The municipality is surrounded by immense dehesas. A dehesa is a light wood of holm oaks (Quercus ilex) or cork oaks (Quercus suber). There, the breeding (animal husbandry) of cattle, sheep (for meat and wool), goats (for meat and cheese), and pigs, (Iberian pig) for meat like jamón ibérico (Iberian ham) and jamón serrano, are common. The breeding of fighting bulls (toro bravo in Spanish) is also widespread. There are some ganaderías of these wild bulls in Saucedilla (Cerro Alto, La Anguila) and others nearby villages like Casatejada or Toril.
Arrocampo Reservoir
Arrocampo Reservoir was created at 1976 to cool the turbines of the Almaraz nuclear power plant, which is near Saucedilla. With a system of dams and dikes, the water, taken from Tagus river, covers a circuit of 11 km which allow the cooling of these turbines.
Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental (main droveway of Western León)
Saucedilla was always a land of sheep. (Its coat of arms has a head of ram.) Extremadura (and Saucedilla), was a passing and transhumance land from the Middle Age. In medieval Spain, there were droving flocks of sheep on the largest scale, which were carefully organized by the system of the Mesta, crossing Extremadura and other Spanish regions. These long distance movements of sheep and cattle were made along drovers road called cañadas reales in Castile, cabañeras in Aragon, carreradas in Catalonia. The Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental cross Saucedilla by the south, near the cemetery. There is a country house, close the graveyard, for sheepherds and cowherds who cover the droveway still today.
Irrigated lands
Special Protection Areas
There are two Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in Saucedilla. They were created in 2005.
Arrocampo Ornithological Park
There are two ornithological routes marked with wooden blazes and an Information Office near the municipal swimming pools in the south entry of the village.