Arlanzón is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

and town located in the

province of Burgos The Province of Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Álava, La Rioja, Soria, Segovia, and Valladolid. ...

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

, Spain. The municipality of Arlanzón is made up of five settlements: Arlanzón (seat or capital), Agés, Galarde, Santovenia de Oca and Zalduendo.

Demography

According to the 2004

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(

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), the municipality had a population of 411 inhabitants.

Trails

One of the variants of the

Camino de Santiago The Camino de Santiago ( la, Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; gl, O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint ...

passes through the area. The Camino is a

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("Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain"). The Greenway of the Sierra de la Demanda, a former railway line, leads from Arlanzón to Monterrubio de la Demanda.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Burgos {{Burgos-geo-stub