Camaleño is a municipality located in the autonomous community of

Cantabria Cantabria (, ; ) is an autonomous community and Provinces of Spain, province in northern Spain with Santander, Cantabria, Santander as its capital city. It is called a , a Nationalities and regions of Spain, historic community, in its current ...

, Spain. According to the 2007

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, the city had 1,096 inhabitants.

History

According to the chronicle of Alfonso III of Leon, the surviving Arabs of the

Battle of Covadonga The Battle of Covadonga took place in 722 between the army of Pelagius of Asturias and the army of commanders Alqama and Munuza, as part of the Umayyad Caliphate. Fought near Covadonga, in the Picos de Europa, it resulted in a victory for th ...

(722) succumbed in

Cosgaya Cosgaya is a Spanish town in the municipality of Camaleño, situated in the comarca of Liébana, located in the furthermost area to the west of Cantabria. The town lies on the right bank of the Deva River The Deva is a river in Northern Spai ...

, a village belonging to Camaleño under an avalanche of stones. In this valley the second Asturian king

Favila of Asturias Favila or Fafila (died 739) was the second King of Asturias from 737 until his death. He was the only son and successor of Pelagius, the first Asturian monarch. In 737 he founded the Church of Santa Cruz, in his capital of Cangas de Onís, bu ...

died 739, killed by a bear. At that time there was already a monastery in Turieno, dedicated to San Martín, where a large reliquary of the Cross of Christ and the body of Santo Toribio, who apparently brought it from Palestine, was kept. Over the years, it became a center of pilgrimage, with the privilege of recognition by different popes. The monastery came under the Oña in the twelfth century, and the process of seigneurization subjected the valley to the jurisdiction of the Marquises of Santillana and

Duke of Infantado Duke of the Infantado () is a Spanish peerage title that was granted to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Figueroa, son of Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile ...

.Historia
Copyright © 2018 e-MAGNETRÓN, retrieved 3 July 2018 Camaleño belonged to the judicial district of

Potes Potes is a municipality in the autonomous community The autonomous communities () are the first-level administrative divisions of Spain, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited auto ...

until the late 1970s, then it became part of

San Vicente de la Barquera San Vicente de la Barquera is a List of municipalities in Cantabria, municipality of Cantabria in northern Spain. It had a population of 4,412 in 2002. Tourism is its main activity due to the area's natural environment and heritage. Approximately ...

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Camaleño
- Cantabria 102 Municipios Santo-Toribio

Municipalities in Cantabria {{Cantabria-geo-stub

History

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