El Mirón is a municipality located in the

province of Ávila Ávila () is a province of central-western Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered on the south by the provinces of Toledo and Cáceres, on the west by Salamanca, on the north by Valladolid, an ...

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. According to the 2006

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), the municipality had a population of 198 inhabitants. The number increased to 207 in 2012. The name came into attention upon the discovery an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) skeleton in 2015 from the

El Mirón Cave The El Mirón Cave is a large cave in the upper Asón River valley towards the eastern end of Cantabria in northern Spain, near the border of the Basque Country. It is an archeological site in Ramales de la Victoria. It is known for a skeleton b ...

. The skeleton was that of a woman and is coated with ochre (a red pigment), hence she is nicknamed The

Red Lady of El Mirón The Red Lady of El Mirón is a skeleton belonging to a woman of Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) found at El Mirón Cave in eastern Cantabria, Spain. Background The discovery was published in 2015 by a team of archaeologists from Universidad de Bur ...

. The woman is about 35 to 40 years of age, and was buried around 18,700 years ago.

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