Official Name: | Aldea del Obispo |
Settlement Type: | municipality |
Flag Size: | 150 |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Spain |
Coordinates: | 40.7072°N -6.7922°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Name1: | Castile and León |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Salamanca |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Comarca de Ciudad Rodrigo |
Subdivision Type4: | Subcomarca |
Subdivision Name4: | Campo de Argañán |
Leader Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Rosa Baz |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 41.92 |
Elevation M: | 692 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 37488 |
Aldea del Obispo is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.
The local economy is dominated by agriculture primarily the growth of herbs.
Aldea del Obispo generated much emigration to Latin America. Many families well known today in Brazil and other Latin American countries hail from Aldea del Obispo. Among well known descendant of family originally from Aldea del Obispo is The Baron Camilo Agasim-Pereira of Fulwood and Dirleton, whose partenal great-grandparents Hemeterio and Maria Martin y Martin immigrated to Brazil in 1901 from the village they trace their roots in the village to Juan Calderon and Ana Sanchez who lived in the area around 1660.