La Loma () is a Spanish comarca in the province of Jaén,

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. It lies in the central part of Jaén, and includes two cities declared

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by the

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Úbeda Úbeda (; from Iberian ''Ibiut'') is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia, with 34,733 (data 2017) inhabitants. Both this city and the neighbouring city of Baeza benefited from extensive patronage in the ...

and Baeza. La Loma covers an area of 1037 square kilometres. Its population of 77,162 (2017)Instituto Nacional de Estadística
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and Baeza. The main sources of income are in agriculture, especially in the growing of

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, although tourism in the historical centres of

and Baeza also plays an important role.

Municipalities

References

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