| Official Name: | Baños de Valdearados |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality and town |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 09450 |
| Area Total Km2: | 37 |
| Elevation M: | 890 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Website: | Banos de Valdearados official website |
Baños de Valdearados is a municipality and town located in the province of Burgos,[1] Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 424 inhabitants.
The municipality located 16 km from Aranda de Duero and 80 km from Burgos is made up of a single population center. It has 407 inhabitants (INE 2008).
The town of Baños is 895 meters above sea level. The entire municipal area is surrounded by soft cornices that lead to moors 30 to 40 meters above the population. The highest points of the municipality range between 890 in Redondal and 925 in Rincón and Lo Tieso. The municipality waters the Bañuelos River, a tributary of the Duero.
Baños limits to the south with the municipalities of Quemada, Villanueva de Gumiel and Aranda de Duero; to the west with Tubilla del Lago and Gumiel de Izán; to the north with Valdeande and Caleruega; and to the east with Hontoria de Valdearados.
The active population of the municipality is dedicated above all to work in Aranda de Duero and to the cultivation of the vineyard and cereals.
The name of "Baños" seems to refer to the existence of "hot springs" in the town. Thus, in the Roman Villa hot springs have been discovered whose water came from the so-called "Source of Health". However, other authors invite us to think that the place name derives from the Latin word "Vannos" which means wasteland.
Hermitage of Santa María MagdalenaIn the Census of Neighborhoods of the Crown of Castilla carried out in 15912 it was called Vaños, it belonged to the Partido de los Arauces, included in the province of Burgos. The party had 876 neighboring bosses.
Villa, then known as Arauzo de Valdearados and belonging to the Jurisdiction of Los Arauzos, of realengo, in the party of Aranda de Duero, with Ordinary Mayor.
In 1843 it belonged to the Aranda party and had 364 inhabitants.
Its entire municipal area is full of traces of history, but without a doubt this has left a clear trail in the Roman Villa of Santa Cruz, with mosaics of special value, discovered by chance in the month of November 1972, about 300 m south before entering the town coming from the Aranda road.
Other monuments include the, in a neoclassical style with a cover of Renaissance influences, from the 17th century, the Hermitage of Santo Cristo del Consuelo, with an Elizabethan Gothic façade, the Hermitage of San Roque from the 17th century and the Hermitage of Santa María Magdalena from the 16th century.