Navatrasierra is a village that is part of the
Villar del Pedroso municipality in the
province of Cáceres
The province of Cáceres ( ; es, provincia de Cáceres, ) is a province of western Spain, and makes up the northern half of the autonomous community of Extremadura. Its capital is the city of Cáceres. Other cities in the province include Pla ...
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Extremadura
Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it ...
, Spain. According to the 2014
census
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, the village has a population of 198 inhabitants.
Geography
Navatrasierra is located in a mountainous area between the
Sierra de Altamira
Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following:
Places Mountains and mountain ranges
* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
* Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...
in the northeast and the
Sierra del Hospital del Obispo; the latter's highest peak is 1443 m high. These ranges are part of the
Montes de Toledo
The Montes de Toledo are one of the main systems of mountain ranges in the Iberian Peninsula. They divide the drainage basin of the Tagus from the basin of the Guadiana. The highest peak is high La Villuerca.
Description
The Montes de Toledo are ...
system.
The
Navatrasierra Shale Formation from the
Ordovician
The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years from the end of the Cambrian Period million years ago (Mya) to the start of the Silurian Period Mya.
T ...
period, is named after this town.
Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database
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Local celebrations
*''Santo Tomás Apóstol'', on 21 December
See also
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Spain
References
External links
*
Ayuntamiento de Navatrasierra - Government Organization
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Populated places in the Province of Cáceres