Saucedilla () is a municipality located in the

province of Cáceres The province of Cáceres (; ; ; ) is a province of western Spain, and makes up the northern half of the autonomous community of Extremadura. Its capital is the city of Cáceres. Other cities in the province include Plasencia, Coria, Navalm ...

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, Spain. It belongs to the Campo Arañuelo County (

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del Campo Arañuelo), the capital of which is

Navalmoral de la Mata Navalmoral de la Mata () is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Cáceres, autonomous community of Extremadura. Attached to the traditional ''comarca'' of Campo Arañuelo, the municipality lies on central-western Iberia, in between ...

. According to the 2010

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), it had a population of 859 inhabitants.

Geography and nature

The situation of Saucedilla is impressive. In the north, the vast bulk of the

Sierra de Gredos The Sierra de Gredos is a mountain range in central Spain that spans the provinces of Ávila, Spain, Ávila, Salamanca, Spain, Salamanca, Cáceres, Spain, Cáceres, Madrid, and Toledo, Spain, Toledo. It is part of the much larger Sistema Central o ...

and the

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; in the south and west, the Miravete Sierra (

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), the

Tagus River The Tagus ( ; ; ) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon. Name T ...

(''Tajo'' in Spanish) and the

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Sierra. The climate is Mediterranean. The village stands in an extensive plain of clayey grounds.

Dehesa

The municipality is surrounded by immense ''dehesas''. A

dehesa A ''dehesa'' () is a multifunctional, agrosylvopastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal; in Portugal, it is known as a ''montado''. Its name comes from the Latin ''defe ...

is a light wood of holm oaks (''

Quercus ilex ''Quercus ilex'', the holly oak, also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section (botany), section ''List of Quercus species#Section Ilex, Il ...

'') or cork oaks (''

Quercus suber ''Quercus suber'', commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the core ...

''). There, the breeding (

animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, animal fiber, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising ...

) of cattle, sheep (for meat and wool), goats (for meat and cheese), and pigs, (

Iberian pig The Iberian pig, also known in Portugal as the Alentejo Pig, is a traditional breed of the domestic pig (''Sus scrofa domesticus'') that is native to the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian pig, whose origins can probably be traced back to the Neoli ...

) for meat like

jamón ibérico Jamón ibérico (; Spanish for "Iberian Ham"), known in Portuguese as presunto ibérico (), is a variety of ''jamón'' or ''presunto'', a type of Curing (food preservation), cured leg of pork (primarily Black Iberian pigs) produced in Spain and P ...

(Iberian ham) and

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, are common. The breeding of

fighting bull The Spanish Fighting Bull is an Iberian heterogeneous cattle (''Bos taurus'') population. It is exclusively bred free-range on extensive estates in countries where bullfighting is organized. Fighting bulls are selected primarily for a certain ...

s (''toro bravo'' in Spanish) is also widespread. There are some ''ganaderías'' of these wild bulls in Saucedilla (''Cerro Alto'', ''La Anguila'') and others nearby villages like Casatejada or

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Arrocampo Reservoir

Arrocampo Reservoir was created at 1976 to cool the turbines of the Almaraz

nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power st ...

, which is near Saucedilla. With a system of

dam A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aqua ...

s and dikes, the water, taken from

Tagus The Tagus ( ; ; ) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon. Name T ...

river, covers a circuit of 11 km which allow the cooling of these turbines. :*

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: there are a considerable masses of

phytoplankton Phytoplankton () are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater Aquatic ecosystem, ecosystems. The name comes from the Greek language, Greek words (), meaning 'plant', and (), mea ...

and

zooplankton Zooplankton are the heterotrophic component of the planktonic community (the " zoo-" prefix comes from ), having to consume other organisms to thrive. Plankton are aquatic organisms that are unable to swim effectively against currents. Consequent ...

thanks to the

eutrophication Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of organisms that may deplete the oxygen in the water; ie. the process of too many plants growing on the s ...

and oxygenation of waters. The bulrush (

Typha latifolia ''Typha latifolia'' is a perennial herbaceous wetland plant in the genus ''Typha''. It is known in English as bulrushStreeter D, Hart-Davies C, Hardcastle A, Cole F, Harper L. 2009. ''Collins Flower Guide''. Harper Collins (sometimes as common b ...

) vegetation is dominant in Arrocampo. It allows the proliferation of birds and little mammals. :* Fishes: barbels (''

Barbus barbus The common barbel (''Barbus barbus'') is a species of freshwater fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. It shares the common name 'barbel' with its many relatives in the genus ''Barbus'', of which it is the type species. In Great Britain it is ...

''),

common carp The common carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), also known as European carp, Eurasian carp, or simply carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Ark ...

s (''

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''), tenches (''

Tinca tinca The tench or doctor fish (''Tinca tinca'') is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the order Cypriniformes found throughout Eurasia from Western Europe including Britain and Ireland east into Asia as far as the Ob and Yenisei Rivers. It is als ...

''), big largemouth bass (''

Micropterus salmoides The largemouth bass (''Micropterus nigricans'') is a carnivorous, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico. It is known by a v ...

'') (almost 50 cm). :* Actually, it is an important

Special Protection Area A special protection area (SPA) is a designation under the European Union Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. Under the Directive, Member States of the European Union (EU) have a duty to safeguard the habitats of migratory birds and cer ...

(

SPA A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths. Spa health treatments are known as balneotherapy. The belief in the curative powers of mineral waters and hot springs goes back to pre ...

) for wild birds. (In Spanish: ''Zona Especial de Protección para las Aves'', ZEPA.) Many migrating as well as permanent birds can be watched in the reservoir waters and their vicinity:

white stork The white stork (''Ciconia ciconia'') is a large bird in the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on the bird's wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average from beak tip to en ...

(''Ciconia ciconia''),

lesser kestrel The lesser kestrel (''Falco naumanni'') is a small falcon. This species breeds from the Mediterranean across Afghanistan and Central Asia, to China and Mongolia. It is a summer bird migration, migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and someti ...

(''Falco naumanni''),

purple heron The purple heron (''Ardea purpurea'') is a wide-ranging heron species. It breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Palearctic. The Western Palearctic populations migrate between breeding and wintering habitats whe ...

(''Ardea purpurea''),

squacco heron The squacco heron (''Ardeola ralloides'') is a small heron, long, of which the body is , with wingspan. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Greater Middle East. Behaviour The squacco heron is a migrant, wintering ...

(''Ardeola ralloides''),

black-crowned night heron The black-crowned night heron (''Nycticorax nycticorax'') r black-capped night heron commonly shortened to just night heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Europe, Asia, and Nort ...

(''Nycticorax nycticorax''), little bittern (''Ixobrychus minutus''),

osprey The osprey (; ''Pandion haliaetus''), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and a wingspan of . It ...

(''Pandion haliaetus''),

cattle egret The cattle egret (formerly genus ''Bubulcus'') is a cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan clade of heron (family (biology), family Ardeidae) in the genus ''Ardea (genus), Ardea'' found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm-temperate zones. Ac ...

(''Bubulcus ibis''),

great cormorant The great cormorant (''Phalacrocorax carbo''), also known as just cormorant in Britain, as black shag or kawau in New Zealand, formerly also known as the great black cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the black cormorant in Australia, and ...

(''Phalacrocorax carbo''),

purple swamphen The purple swamphen has been split into the following species: * Western swamphen, ''Porphyrio porphyrio'', southwest Europe and northwest Africa * African swamphen, ''Porphyrio madagascariensis'', sub-Saharan continental Africa and Madagascar * ...

(''Porphyrio porphyrio''). This is, perhaps, the bird symbol of Arrocampo Reservoir SPA). The list is practically endless. :

''Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental'' (main droveway of Western León)

Saucedilla was always a land of sheep. (Its coat of arms has a head of

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(and Saucedilla), was a passing and

transhumance Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or Nomad, nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. In montane regions (''vertical transhumance''), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and low ...

land from the Middle Age. In medieval Spain, there were droving flocks of sheep on the largest scale, which were carefully organized by the system of the

Mesta The ''Mesta'' () was a powerful association protecting livestock owners and their animals in the Crown of Castile that was incorporated in the 13th century and was dissolved in 1836. Although best known for its organisation of the annual migrat ...

, crossing Extremadura and other Spanish regions. These long distance movements of sheep and cattle were made along

drovers road Drover or Drovers may refer to: Animal moving * Drover, a person who moves animals over long distances in droving * Drover (Australian), a person who moves animals over long distances in Australia * Drover (dog), a dog used for droving People * ...

called ''cañadas reales'' in Castile, ''cabañeras'' in Aragon, ''carreradas'' in Catalonia. The ''Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental'' cross Saucedilla by the south, near the cemetery. There is a country house, close the graveyard, for shepherds and cowherds who cover the droveway still today.

Irrigated lands

:* Long ago, the economic activity of Saucedilla was based only on traditional agriculture. During centuries, there was a subsistence

farming Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

(dry farming), with also the breeding of sheep, goats, cattle and pigs. This agriculture has produced cereals for years and years in Saucedilla lands:

wheat Wheat is a group of wild and crop domestication, domesticated Poaceae, grasses of the genus ''Triticum'' (). They are Agriculture, cultivated for their cereal grains, which are staple foods around the world. Well-known Taxonomy of wheat, whe ...

barley Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...

oat The oat (''Avena sativa''), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural). Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop, as their seeds ...

rye Rye (''Secale cereale'') is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is grown principally in an area from Eastern and Northern Europe into Russia. It is much more tolerant of cold weather and poor soil than o ...

chickpea The chickpea or chick pea (''Cicer arietinum'') is an annual plant, annual legume of the family (biology), family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, cultivated for its edible seeds. Its different types are variously known as gram," Bengal gram, ga ...

broad bean ''Vicia faba'', commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop. Vari ...

s and

root vegetables Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by humans or animals as food. In agricultural and culinary terminology, the term applies to true roots, such as taproots and tuberous root, root tubers, as well as non-roots such as bulbs, corms, ...

turnip The turnip or white turnip ('' Brassica rapa'' subsp. ''rapa'') is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, fleshy taproot. Small, tender varieties are grown for human consumption, while larger varieties a ...

s. Also olives and wine. Purple Swamphen - Pukeko02

:* The new irrigation farming: the Valdecañas Reservoir upon the Tagus (on southeast of the municipality), and the construction of many channels, were made possible to irrigate many farmlands of Saucedilla. Fodder for cows and sheep, fruits like

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es,

pimiento A pimiento or pimento or cherry pepper is a variety of large, red, heart-shaped chili pepper (''Capsicum annuum'') that measures long and wide (medium, elongate). Description and habitat Pimientos can have various colors including yellow ...

bell pepper The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, paprika, pepper, capsicum or, in some parts of the US midwest, mango) is the fruit of plants in the Grossum Group of the species ''Capsicum annuum''. Cultivars of the plant produce fruits in diff ...

peach The peach (''Prunus persica'') is a deciduous tree first domesticated and Agriculture, cultivated in China. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and the glossy-skinned, non-fuzzy varieties called necta ...

es, etc., are produced because of the arrival of water in the 1980s.

Special Protection Areas

There are two

s (SPAs) in Saucedilla. They were created in 2005. :* Arrocampo Reservoir Special Protection Area. The list of wild birds of Arrocampo Reservoir SPA is really very large. :* Lesser Kestrel Colonies of Saucedilla Special Protection Area: it is located on the parish church of Saucedilla. 17 pairs of

s (Latin name ''Falco naumanni'', in Spanish ''cernícalos'') were recorded in 2005 in the

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s of its walls.

Arrocampo Ornithological Park

There are two ornithological routes marked with wooden blazes and an Information Office near the municipal swimming pools in the south entry of the village. :* Route 1: Arrocampo Reservoir Route. This route has 4 bird hides. :* Route 2: Cerro Alto Route: 1 hide

Pictures of the area around Saucedilla

File:Dehesa extremeña (Saucedilla, Cáceres).jpg, ''

Dehesa A ''dehesa'' () is a multifunctional, agrosylvopastoral system (a type of agroforestry) and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal; in Portugal, it is known as a ''montado''. Its name comes from the Latin ''defe ...

'' ( holm oak wood) nearby Saucedilla File:Embalse de Arrocampo.jpg, Arrocampo Reservoir File:Torreta_de_elevación_de_agua.jpg, Elevation water tower for irrigation File:Principales vias pecuarias.png, Main

s of Spain. ''Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental'' is nº3. It cross by Saucedilla File:ZEPA Saucedilla.jpg, Information office of Arrocampo Reservoir

File:Garcilla-cangregera.JPG,

Squacco heron The squacco heron (''Ardeola ralloides'') is a small heron, long, of which the body is , with wingspan. It is of Old World origins, breeding in southern Europe and the Greater Middle East. Behaviour The squacco heron is a migrant, wintering ...

(''Ardeola ralloides'') can be watched at Arrocampo Reservoir

Demography

* End of 15th century: Saucedilla had 900 inhabitants. There were a small community of

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s lived in Saucedilla before its expulsion of Spain in 1492. * Between 1528 and 1653: the municipality lost many people (great demographic crisis in all regions of Spain) * According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, the evolution between 1900 and 2010 is: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.8) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.6) id:bar value:rgb(1,0.75,0.4) ImageSize = width:400 height:200 PlotArea = left:50 bottom:20 top:20 right:30 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:900 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:white BarData= bar:1900 text:1900 bar:1910 text:1910 bar:1920 text:1920 bar:1930 text:1930 bar:1940 text:1940 bar:1950 text:1950 bar:1960 text:1960 bar:1970 text:1970 bar:1981 text:1981 bar:1991 text:1991 bar:2001 text:2001 bar:2010 text:2010 PlotData= color:bar width:20 align:left bar:1900 from:0 till:335 bar:1910 from:0 till:604 bar:1920 from:0 till:427 bar:1930 from:0 till:523 bar:1940 from:0 till:629 bar:1950 from:0 till:699 bar:1960 from:0 till:880 bar:1970 from:0 till:367 bar:1981 from:0 till:412 bar:1991 from:0 till:497 bar:2001 from:0 till:610 bar:2010 from:0 till:857 PlotData= bar:1900 at: 335 fontsize:S text:335 shift:(-10,5) bar:1910 at: 604 fontsize:S text:604 shift:(-10,5) bar:1920 at: 427 fontsize:S text:427 shift:(-10,5) bar:1930 at: 523 fontsize:S text:523 shift:(-10,5) bar:1940 at: 629 fontsize:S text:629 shift:(-10,5) bar:1950 at: 699 fontsize:S text:699 shift:(-10,5) bar:1960 at: 880 fontsize:S text:880 shift:(-10,5) bar:1970 at: 367 fontsize:S text:367 shift:(-10,5) bar:1981 at: 412 fontsize:S text:412 shift:(-10,5) bar:1991 at: 497 fontsize:S text:497 shift:(-10,5) bar:2001 at: 610 fontsize:S text:610 shift:(-10,5) bar:2010 at: 857 fontsize:S text:857 shift:(-10,5) * 1960s: the emigration years. Many people (and their families) left the village at the beginning of the 1960s to earn their living in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, France, Germany, etc. * Foreign population, currently: community of Moroccan people. They work in regional or local agriculture (tobacco, harvests, fruits picking), domestic service, etc.

History

Duca di San Germano Francisco Tuttavilla

* 14th century: foundation of the municipality. Colons of Collado de la Vera (see

Collado (Cáceres) Collado de la Vera is a municipality in the province of Cáceres and autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. The municipality covers an area of and as of 2011 had a population of 188 people. Now it has a population of about 190 people. See ...

) (little village of the

La Vera located in the foothills of the

mountain range) founded Saucedilla in middle of 14th century.Juan Carlos Rubio Masa and José Luis Rubio Masa: Saucedilla, santo y seña de un pueblo extremeño, Navalmoral de la Mata, 1994; Ed. Exmo. Ayuntamiento de Saucedilla * 15th century: development of the municipality. * 16th century: building of the church (gothic and renaissance styles) under Bishop Gutierre de Vargas Carvajal mandate. The church construction terminated under the bishopric of

Pedro Ponce de León Don (title), Dom Pedro Ponce de Leon, O.S.B., (1520, Sahagún – 29 August 1584, Oña) was a Spanish people, Spanish Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monk who is often credited as being "the first teacher for the deaf". Biography Ponce de Leo ...

. * 17th century: :* Lord of Saucedilla: Francisco Tuttavilla. :* Construction of the jurisdiction column (''rollo jurisdiccional'' in Spanish). * 18th century: Creation of Saucedilla County. The Counts of Saucedilla. * The Independence War ("Guerra de Independencia")

Monuments

* St John the Baptist Church (16th century). Gothic and Renaissance styles * Jurisdiction Column (17th century) *

Plasencia Plasencia () is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cáceres, Extremadura. , it has a population of 41,047. Plasencia is located in the Western-Central Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Sistema Central. Housing primarily ...

Cross

Pictures of the monuments

File:Iglesia rollo y fuente.jpg, St John the Baptist church of Saucedilla File:Rollo_jurisdiccional_de_Saucedilla_(sigl._XVII).jpg, Jurisdiction column File:Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Saucedilla, Cáceres) con palmeras.jpg, A view of the church File:Saucedilla 009.jpg, Gothic vault File:Nave desde el coro 21.jpg, The nave from the choir File:Cruz de Plasencia.jpg, Plasencia Cross

References

Bibliography

* ''Saucedilla: santo y seña de un pueblo extremeño'', Juan Carlos RUBIO MASA & José Luis RUBIO MASA; Ed. Saucedilla, Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Saucedilla, 1994 * ''Saucedilla: costumbres, casas y familias'', Ángel Marzal González; Navalmoral de la Mata, Ed. Publisher Navalmoral,1999

External links

www.saucedilla.es (in Spanish)

Birding in Extremadura: Arrocampo Reservoir (in English)
{{authority control Municipalities in the Province of Cáceres Special Protection Areas of Extremadura