| Official Name: | Ahigal |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Spain |
| Subdivision Name1: | Cáceres |
| Subdivision Type2: | Autonomous communities of Spain |
| Subdivision Name2: | Extremadura |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Tierras de Granadilla |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Luis Fernando García Nicolás |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 10650 |
| Website: | http://www.ahigal.es |
Ahigal is a municipality in the province of Cáceres and autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. The municipality covers an area of and as of 2011 had a population of 1435 people.[1]
The origin of the series of place names "Ahigal" is a place name created from a plant. Figal is used as a surname in Asturias: the figal is the fig tree; many variations still exist such as La Figar, La Figal or Figares in Asturian place names. Like in Latin, the feminine gender of the tree name is maintained.
Ahigal is bordered by:
At the fall of the old regime the area was formed into a constitutional municipality in the Extremadura region, judicial district of Granadilla, then known as Aigal, which, in the census of 1842, had 250 homes and 1370 residents