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Escalante is a municipality located in the autonomous community of
Escalante
- Cantabria 102 Municipios
Municipalities in Cantabria
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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 has a population of 749 inhabitants.
See also
*Bernardino de Escalante
Bernardino de Escalante (c. 1537– after 1605) was a Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and a prolific writer. He is best known as the author of the second book on China that was published in Europe, and the first author of such a book to ob ...
(who was from the nearby Laredo, Cantabria
Laredo () is a town in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2008 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 12,648 inhabitants. In addition to Laredo, the municipality includes the villages of La Arenosa, El Ca ...
)
* Diego de Guevara, son of the Lord of Escalante, courtier and art collector
References
External links
Escalante
- Cantabria 102 Municipios
Municipalities in Cantabria
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