Requena-Utiel (; ) is a '' comarca'' currently in the

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. The area was transferred to this province in 1851, as a result of a reform of the 1833 territorial division of Spain; before that it was a part of the Crown of Castile and of the former province of Cuenca. The inhabitants of the ''comarca'' have traditionally been monolingual in Spanish, i.e. they are not

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speakers. Chera, now officially included in Requena-Utiel according to the current administrative division pattern of the Valencian Community, was geographically and historically part of Los Serranos ''comarca''.Historia de Chera
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Municipalities

* Camporrobles * Caudete de las Fuentes * Chera * Fuenterrobles * Requena * Sinarcas * Utiel * Venta del Moro * Villargordo del Cabriel

Transport

The comarca is served by Requena-Utiel railway station on the AVE

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line from Madrid to Valencia. The C-3 line of the Cercanías Valencia

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network makes stops in Requena, San Antonio de Requena and Utiel.

References

External links

Institut Valencià d'Estadística
Comarques of the Valencian Community Geography of the Province of Valencia {{Valencia-geo-stub

Municipalities

Transport

See also

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