Valparaíso de Arriba is a town in the municipality of
Campos del Paraíso
Campos del Paraíso is a municipality in the province of Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
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(Paradise Fields), with a population of 47. It is located in the area called Mancha Alta y Sierra Media, in
Cuenca Province
Cuenca is one of the five provinces of the autonomous community 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 o ...
, part of the community of
Castilla-La Mancha in
Spain.
The town is the birthplace of
Juan de Saavedra Juan de Saavedra was a soldier in the command of Diego de Almagro.Prescott, W.H., 2011, The History of the Conquest of Peru, Digireads.com Publishing, In the first expedition to Chile in 1535, Almagro sent Saavedra to reconnoiter the coast of Chile ...
, founder of
Valparaíso in
Chile. De Saavedra's remains are buried in the Santa Ana Chapel, inside the Church of
Saint Michael the Archangel.
References
Populated places in the Province of Cuenca
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