Torres is a municipality in the
province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2015
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 municipality has a population of 1,516 inhabitants.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)
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Economy
The economy of Torres is based on the agriculture, basically production of
olive oil
Olive oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing whole olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea'', a traditional Tree fruit, tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin) and extracting the oil.
It is commonly used in cooking for frying foods, as a cond ...
and
cherries
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The name ...
. It is also important the rural tourism, with some hotels in the area, the construction sector, and the repairing of agriculture machinery.
In the year 2012, more than 570,000 kg of cherries were collected in its municipality.
Gallery
File:Campos de cerezos y Torres al fondo.jpg, Cherry field. Torres at the bottom.
File:Toros Torres.jpg, Bullfight ring.
File:Área recreativa Fuenmayor01.jpg, Recreational area Fuenmayor.
File:Área recreativa Fuenmayor04.jpg, Fuenmayor Spring.
File:Área recreativa Fuenmayor06.jpg, Waterfalls in Fuenmayor.
See also
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Sierra Mágina
The Sierra Mágina is a massif mostly in the province of Jaén (southern Spain), part of the Cordillera Subbética. The highest peak is the Pico Mágina, with an elevation of 2,164 m.
Geography
The boundaries of the massif are grossly def ...
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List of municipalities in Jaén
Jaén is a province in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 97 municipalities. Spanish census, Jaén is the 27th largest of the 50 provinces by population, with inhabitants, and the 14th largest by land area, ...
References
External links
Excelentísimo Ayuntamiento de Torres
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Municipalities in the Province of Jaén (Spain)
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