Escamilla is a municipality located in the
province of Guadalajara
Guadalajara ( , ) is a province of Spain, belonging to the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. As of 2019 it had a population of 258,890 people. The population of the province has grown in the last 10 years. It is located in the centre ...
,
Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004
census
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(
INE), the municipality has a population of 108 inhabitants.
Geography
Located at an altitude of 1,023 meters, the municipality is 39.21 km
2 and borders
Peralveche to the north,
Salmerón and the
Province of Cuenca
Cuenca () is one of the five provinces of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It is located in the eastern part of this autonomous community and covers 17,141 square km. It has a population of 203,841 ...
to the east,
Pareja
Pareja is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 502 inhabitants.
Language
In Pareja, they speak Spanish
Spanish might ...
to the west and
Millana to the south.
The creek drains the municipal Escamilla to Guadiela River Basin to the south. The highlight of the term is the Villar, with 1,102 meters, located just over 2 miles north of the town, while the lowest point lies to the south, about 800 meters.
Demographics
Escamilla was an important town in the mid-twentieth century, when the cultivation of
lavender
''Lavandula'' (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the sage family, Lamiaceae. It is native plant, native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of the Mediterranean ...
gave some economic importance to Escamilla. Its abandonment for various reasons caused a period of decline, whose traces are still visible in the ruins of the lavender distillery, located some 100 meters south of the village. This decline accelerated the process of migration and the resulting depopulation. In 1960 Escamilla still had 591 inhabitants, but the population decreased to 353 according to the census of 1970 and to more than 100 people in 2000. In 2005, according to calculations by D. Guerrero Felix Villalba, a resident of the village, the number of permanent residents of the town was only about 40 people.
* In the above table are in parentheses Escamilla inhabitants according to data from the municipal census of the National Statistics Institute. No data is available for 1997.
* Figures in parentheses indicate the number of inhabitants by sex (male and female)
* Data are from a population of high average age, in which a few exceptions, women experience superior life expectancy.
Monuments
Palacio de los Antelos, 15th century.
Castillo y murallas de Escamilla, the ninth century. The castle was rebuilt and adapted as Gothic palace in the fifteenth century.
Iglesia de la Purificación, neoclassical eighteenth century baroque tower topped by a weathercock. The
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Purificación was declared a ''Bien de Iglesia de Interés Cultural'' in 1979.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Guadalajara
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