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El Toboso

El Toboso
Municipality
El Toboso.svg
El Toboso is located in Spain
El Toboso
El Toboso
Location in Spain
Coordinates: 39°31′5″N 2°59′53″W / 39.51806°N 2.99806°W / 39.51806; -2.99806
Country  Spain
Autonomous community  Castile-La Mancha
Province Toledo
Comarca Mancha Alta de Toledo
Judicial district Quintanar de la Orden
Government
 • Mayor Marciano Ortega Molina (2007)
Area
 • Total 144.19 km2 (55.67 sq mi)
Elevation 635 m (2,083 ft)
Population (2009)
 • Total 2,219
 • Density 15/km2 (40/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Tobeseños, Tobosinos, Tobosescos
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 45820
Website Official website

El Toboso is a town and municipality located in the province of Toledo, central Spain. According to the 2009 data, El Toboso has a total population of 2,219 inhabitants. The economy of the town is based on wine production and cattle, and sheep.

El Toboso is famous for appearing in the novel Don Quixote by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, as the town in which the fictional character Dulcinea lives. The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest (supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.



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