La Puebla de Arganzón explained

Official Name:La Puebla de Arganzón
Settlement Type:Municipality and town
Coordinates:42.7681°N -2.8303°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Spain
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous community
Subdivision Name1: Castile and León
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2: Burgos
Subdivision Type3:Comarca
Subdivision Name3:Comarca del Ebro
Seat:La Puebla de Arganzón
Government Type:Mayor-council government
Leader Party:Agrupación Independiente Nueva Puebla
Leader Title:Alcalde (Mayor)
Leader Name:Roberto Ortíz Urbina[1]
Area Total Km2:18.87
Elevation M:481
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:09294

La Puebla de Arganzón (also written Lapuebla de Arganzón[2] [3]) is a municipality[4] [5] located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. It is in the Comarca del Ebro[6] and the Judicial district Miranda de Ebro.[7] According to the INE, the municipality had a population of 529 inhabitants in 2009.[8]

La Puebla de Arganzón and the adjacent municipality of Condado de Treviño together constitute the enclave of Treviño, part of the territory of Burgos, surrounded by the Basque province of Álava.[9]

La Puebla de Arganzón has a surface area of 18.87km2 with a population of 529 and a population density of 28.03/km2.[10]

The municipality of La Puebla de Arganzón is made up of two towns, the more important one sharing the name La Puebla de Arganzón; the other is Villanueva de la Oca, a small rural community.[11]

There was older settlement named Arganzón, about a kilometre away from the present La Puebla. Its existence is cited as early as the year 871, but it disappeared in the 18th century.[12]

The present Puebla de Arganzón was founded toward the end of the 12th century, at a time of border wars between the kingdoms of Castile and Navarre. It obtained a fuero establishing it as a community in 1191. According to José Joaquín de Landázuri, that fuero was granted by the Navarrese king Sancho VI ("Sancho el Sabio", "Sancho the Wise"), not by Alfonso VIII of Castile.

A large part of medieval La Puebla de Arganzón, a boat-shaped area that stretches from north to south, survives today, although new development has increased the size and population in recent years.

In fiction

The fictional liberal crusader Salvador Monsalud, hero of the ten books of the second series of Benito Pérez Galdós's Episodios Nacionales (written 1875–1879) was a native of La Puebla de Arganzón.[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.elcorreodigital.com/alava/20080110/mas-actualidad/politica/alcalde-puebla-pide-instituciones-200801101250.html El alcalde de La Puebla pide a las instituciones que apoyen la integración de Treviño en Álava
  2. José A. Abasolo, Lapuebla de Arganzón (Treviño) vota hoy su incorporación a Alava, El País, 1989-01-31. Accessed online 2010-01-01.
  3. Roberto González de Viñaspre, Argantzun: ohar historikoak eta linguistikoak, Euskonews Gaztea. Accessed online 2010-01-01.
  4. [Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)|INE]
  5. La Puebla de Arganzón, official site. Accessed online 2010-01-01.
  6. Francisco Jorge Torres Villegas, Cartografía hispano-científica; ó sea, Los mapas españoles, en que se representa á España bajo todas sus diferentes fases, Volumen 1, Imprenta de R. Ballone, 1857. on Google Books. pág. 355.
  7. Miranda de Ebro, partido judicial nº4 de Burgos, Consejo General de los Procuradores de los Tribunales, 2003. Fecha de acceso 2010-01-01.
  8. [Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)|INE]
  9. Visitando La Puebla de Arganzón, El Correo (Bilbao), 2009-12-14. Accessed online 2010-01-01.
  10. Calculated from surface area and population. Older INE data in their database is based on a population of 489 and shows a density of 25.91.
  11. Información general, La Puebla de Arganzón.net. Accessed online 2010-01-01.
  12. La Puebla de Arganzón, www.turismoburgos.org / University of Burgos. Accessed online 2010-01-01.
  13. Benito Pérez Galdós, El equipaje del rey José (Digital edition 2001, based on Madrid: Imprenta y Litografía de La Guirnalda, 1875), Chapter 1, p. 11. Template, TOC; Online at Biblioteca Cervantes Virtual.