Arlanza (comarca)
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| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Largest municipality | Lerma |
Comarca del Arlanza is a comarca located south-east of the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bounded on the north by the Odra-Pisuerga and the Alfoz de Burgos, south by the Ribera del Duero, on the east by the province of Palencia and west by the Sierra de la Demanda.
Administrative Entities
The comarca capital is Lerma.
Municipalities (44)[1]
Geography
The waters of the river Arlanza, rising in the pines forest of Quintanar de la Sierra, running from east to west because the land falls from heights such as Peñas de Cervera (Mount Valdosa, 1412 m) and the mountain range The Mamblas (1372 m) to the border with Palencia, give name to the comarca. The comarca receives an average of de 647 mm of water, that amount, for Burgos is plenty.
Most of its soil is dedicated to the sow of the cereal, consequence of a long process of rupture of great extensions of Pines, oaks, junipers and other species that covered enormous extensions. So it is testified by the comarcal names: Pineda Trasmonte, Pinedillo, Nebreda, Avellanosa, Torrecítores del Enebral, Madrigal del Monte, Madrigalejo del Monte o Villamayor de los Montes. Long ago there was a big vegetal charcoal production.
Communications
Freeways are acceptable: from North to South crosses the national N-I from Madrid to Irun and from west to east the N-622 from Lerma to Palencia. The others comarcal roads are:
- BU-101 from Villahoz to Villaquirán (A-62)
- BU-114 from Quintanilla de la Mata (A-1) to Villafruela
- BU-900 from Lerma to Silos
- BU-901 from Cuevas de San Clemente (N-234) to Silos
- BU-904 from Lerma (A-1) to Covarrubias
- BU-905 from Covarrubias to Hortigüela (N-234)
- BU-910 from Hacinas (N-234) to Caleruega
The train from Madrid to burgos, although it is less useful because of his forsaken state
History
The Arlanza zone was repopulated mainly by Astur, Cantabri, Visigothic and Mozarab peoples in the mid-ninth century, after the border of the County of Castile and the Kingdom of Córdoba reached the river Duero.
Relevant Towns
The Villa Rachela of Covarrubias, is an artistic historic group and ancient capital of a religious state; and the Villa Ducal of Lerma, turned by the Duke of the same name into one of the most beautiful urban sets of Spain and Santa María del Campo, ancient capital of Betherías.
See also
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Notes
- ↑ In parentheses is the number of minor local entities from each municipality