Utiel is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in the ''comarca'' of

Requena-Utiel La Plana de Utiel-Requena is a '' comarca'' currently in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Historically, the ''comarca'' was part of Castile and formed part of the province of Cuenca in the 1833 provincial division of Ja ...

in the

Valencian Community The Valencian Community ( ca-valencia, Comunitat Valenciana, es, Comunidad Valenciana) is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous comm ...

, Spain. According to the 2014

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, the municipality has a population of 12,082 inhabitants. The Shrine of El Remedio is located on top of the

Sierra de Utiel Sierra de Utiel ( ca-valencia, Serra d'Utiel) is a long mountain range in the Alt Palància, Alt Millars and Plana Baixa comarcas, Valencian Community, Spain. Its highest point is the 1,306 m high El Remedio ( ca-valencia, El Remei). There is oft ...

range, near Utiel.

Population centres

*Utiel town. *Las Casas, at the feet of the Sierra de la Bicuerca, with 350 inhabitants.Las Casas de Utiel
/ref> *Los Corrales ^es, about 5 km from Utiel town, with 327 inhabitants *Las Cuevas, with 607 inhabitants. The railway station of the Cuenca-Valencia line is located in this village. *Estenas, in the Sierra del Negrete, with 34 inhabitants *La Torre, about 13 km NW of Utiel town, with 145 inhabitants *Other minor settlements include El Remedio, Casas de Medina and El Hontanar.

References

External links

* Municipalities in the Province of Valencia {{valencia-geo-stub