Cuenca is one of the five provinces of the
autonomous community
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of
Castilla-La Mancha. It is located in the eastern part of this autonomous community and covers 17,141 square km. It has a population of 203,841 inhabitants -- the least populated of the five provinces. Its capital city is also called
Cuenca.
Geography
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The province is bordered by the provinces of
Valencia
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(including its
exclave Rincón de Ademuz
Rincón de Ademuz is a Spanish comarca constituted as an exclave of both the Valencian Community and the Valencia province located between the provinces of Cuenca ( Castile-La Mancha) and Teruel ( Aragon). It is part of the Spanish-speaking area ...
),
Albacete
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Lying in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...
,
Ciudad Real,
Toledo,
Madrid
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,
Guadalajara, and
Teruel
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. The northeastern side of the province is in the
mountainous
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Sistema Ibérico
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area.
211,375 people (2007) live in the province. Its capital is
Cuenca, where nearly a quarter of the population live, some 52,980 people. There are
238 municipalities in Cuenca.
Other populous towns and municipalities include
Tarancón
Tarancón is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Cuenca, Castilla–La Mancha. As of 2018, it has a population of 14,834, which makes it the second most populated municipality in the province.
History
The place's repopulation pre ...
,
San Clemente
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,
Quintanar del Rey
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,
Huete,
Villanueva de la Jara
Villanueva de la Jara, popularly called La Jara, is a town and municipality in the Manchuela Conquense , this in turn is part of the La Manchuela comarca, province of Cuenca, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is known for the cultivation of port ...
,
Motilla del Palancar,
Mota del Cuervo
Mota del Cuervo is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Cuenca, Castilla–La Mancha. The municipality spans across a total area of 176.19 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 6,055.
It is one of the few ...
,
La Almarcha
La Almarcha is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
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and
Las Pedroñeras.
History
In 1851 Cuenca lost
Requena-Utiel
La Plana de Utiel-Requena is a ''comarca'' currently in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Historically, the ''comarca'' was part of Castile and formed part of the province of Cuenca in the 1833 provincial division of Javier ...
to the neighbouring
Valencia Province
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, with which it was developing commercial ties. Nevertheless,
Requena-Utiel
La Plana de Utiel-Requena is a ''comarca'' currently in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Historically, the ''comarca'' was part of Castile and formed part of the province of Cuenca in the 1833 provincial division of Javier ...
remained
Spanish
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-speaking (rather than
Catalan
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), while the loss of its most dynamic region left the province of Cuenca relatively underdeveloped economically.
Population development
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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bar:1887 from:0 till:246 text:245,699
bar:1900 from:0 till:251 text:250,755
bar:1910 from:0 till:272 text:271,748
bar:1920 from:0 till:288 text:287,507
bar:1930 from:0 till:315 text:314,633
bar:1940 from:0 till:341 text:340,549
bar:1950 from:0 till:344 text:344,033
bar:1960 from:0 till:329 text:328,554
bar:1970 from:0 till:252 text:251,619
bar:1980 from:0 till:216 text:215,975
bar:1990 from:0 till:205 text:205,198
bar:2000 from:0 till:200 text:200,346
bar:2010 from:0 till:215 text:215,165
bar:2020 from:0 till:196 text:196,139
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Notes and references
List of municipalities in Cuenca
This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, Spain. There are 238 municipalities in the province.
See also
*Geography of Spain
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