Ajofrín is a municipality located in the

province of Toledo Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Cáceres, and Ávila. Its capital is the city of Toledo. ...

, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. As of 2008, it was home to 2328 inhabitants (

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2008). Its name derives from the

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''Al-Ya'rar'', or "the place of the Yafar or Jafar".

History

Ancient

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ruins indicate a continuous settlement since the

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. During the 15th century, the municipality was under the control of the Church of Toledo, and was at that point in history called a ''villa''. The local copper mine, whose meager production supported the town's growth during the Renaissance, was abandoned during the mid-18th century.

Geography

The municipality is located on a

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

mesa in the northernmost reaches of the

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. It shares borders with the municipalities of

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, Sonseca,

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, and Layos.

Industry

The primary industry of the area is

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. 60% of the territory of Ajofrín is cultivated, with 55% as

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s, and the rest growing sugarbeets,

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s, and

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References

Municipalities in the Province of Toledo {{CastileLaMancha-geo-stub