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Guadiana, Badajoz
Guadiana (until 2020 Guadiana del Caudillo), is a Spanish town and municipality of the Province of Badajoz, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. The municipality covers an area of and as of 2015 had a population of 2,527 people. History The town is a planned community founded in 1949 and officially inaugurated in 1951, and was officially became a municipality on 17 February 2012. Named after the nearby river Guadiana and after Francisco Franco, also known as ''Caudillo'', it was one of the villages founded by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización during the Francoist Spain.History of Guadiana (municipal website) Hamlet of Badajoz municipality since its foundation, in 1971 it was constituted as local minor entity (''Entidad local menor'') and, after the approval of Badajoz City Council (Feb. 2009), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality ( es, municipio, , ca, municipi, gl, concello, eu, udalerria, ast, conceyu)In other languages of Spain: * Catalan/Valencian (), sing. ''municipi''. * Galician () or (), sing. ''municipio''/''bisbarra''. *Basque (), sing. ''udalerria''. * Asturian (), sing. ''conceyu''. is the basic local administrative division in Spain together with the province. Organisation Each municipality forms part of a province which in turn forms part or the whole of an autonomous community (17 in total plus Ceuta and Melilla): some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). There are a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. In the Principality of Asturias, municipalities are officially named ''concejos'' (councils). The average population of a municipality is about 5,300, but this figure masks a huge range: the most populo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
