Fuencaliente is a municipality located in

Ciudad Real Province The province of Ciudad Real () is a province in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Cuenca, Albacete, Jaén, Córdoba, Badajoz, and Toledo. It is partly located in ...

, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2012

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, the municipality has a population of 1111 inhabitants. The village of Ventillas is part of its municipal term.

Geography and history

The

cave paintings In archaeology, Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric art, prehistoric origin, and the oldest known are mor ...

of '' Peña Escrita'' and ''La Batanera'' are located in caves within the municipal limits of Fuencaliente and there are remains of human presence in the area since the

Chalcolithic The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin '' aeneus'' "of copper"), is an archaeological period characterized by regular ...

age. The name ''Fuencaliente'' is derived from the Spanish term for

hot springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

and the town was mentioned in chronicles dating back to 1158 at the time of the foundation of the

Order of Calatrava The Order of Calatrava ( es, Orden de Calatrava, pt, Ordem de Calatrava) was one of the four Spanish military orders and the first military order founded in Castile, but the second to receive papal approval. The papal bull confirming the Orde ...

. 1,332 m high

Bañuela Bañuela or La Bañuela, also known as ''La Mójina'', is the highest peak of the Sierra Morena, Spain. Description The mountain is 1,332 m high and it is located in a range known as ''Sierra de Navalmanzano'', part of the Sierra Madrona range, a ...

, the highest point of the whole Sierra Morena system, is located atop

Sierra Madrona Sierra Madrona is a mountain range of the Sierra Morena, Spain. It is located in Ciudad Real Province, in the region of Castile-La Mancha as well as the Córdoba and Jaén provincial limits, Andalusia. Its highest peak, 1,332 m high Bañuela, ...

range near Fuencaliente.Mendikat - Bañuela ( 1.332 m )
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