Plenas is a municipality located in the Campo de Belchite comarca,

province of Zaragoza Zaragoza (), also called Saragossa in English,''Encyclopædia Britannica''Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)/ref> is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is the city of Zaragoza, whic ...

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and ; ) is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces of Spain, ...

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. According to the 2004

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

( INE), the municipality has a population of 131 inhabitants. It was the home town of the Aragonese revolutionary

Manuela Sancho Manuela Sancho y Bonafonte (1784–1863) was an Aragonese revolutionary who participated in the defense of Zaragoza during the Peninsula War. Biography Early life Manuela Sancho y Bonafonte was born in Plenas, a small town in the province of ...

, who fought in the Siege of Zaragoza against the invading French Imperial Army. At the time of her birth, in 1784, the town had 825 inhabitants and 200 houses.

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Municipalities in the Province of Zaragoza {{Zaragoza-geo-stub

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