Entrena
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View of Entrena. At foreground its vineyards
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_-_Municipality_Map.svg) Location within Rioja Media (La Rioja). |
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| Coordinates: 42°23′N 2°32′W / 42.383°N 2.533°W | |||
| Country | Spain | ||
| Autonomous community | La Rioja | ||
| Comarca | Rioja Media | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Esteban Pérez Díez (PP) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 21.03 km2 (8.12 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 559 m (1,834 ft) | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • Total | 1,503 | ||
| • Density | 71.47/km2 (185.1/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CET (UTC+2) | ||
| Website | http://www.entrena.org | ||
| 12 km to Logroño | |||
Entrena is a municipality of La Rioja, (Spain), located near the capital Logroño. Its population in January 2010 was 1,503 over an area of 21.03 square kilometres. The nucleus is placed at an altitude of 558 metres. It is bordered by Navarrete and Lardero to the north; Albelda de Iregua to the east; Nalda, Sorzano and Sojuela to the south; and Medrano to the west.
The relief of the municipality is level, its altitude varies between the 500 and the 600 M.s. Most of the land are in a glacis, old channel of Iregua River. In the South zone are the first spurs of the Mountain range of Moncalvillo. The village is located in this zone, on the hill called El Conjuro. Is urbanized in bastille with his streets staggered and concentric. The residential zone extends from the slope south until the adjacent plain, whereas in the slope north, fresher, situates the Neighbourhood of Las Bodegas.
The rivers are few and with great low water. Hardly precipices coming from the mountain range cross the term from the South to North, like Ruicidera or Río Daroca.
The zone was populated by Romans, as it indicates the Roman town of La Dehesa, in addition to the road of Zaragoza-Briviesca that crossed the municipality.
Alfonso I of Asturias the Catholic in the middle of 8th century reconquered the villa from the Muslims. According to the Geographic Dictionary, published in Barcelona in 1830, Entrena it would be founded by this king around 750, but already it is known by the Chronicle of Alfonso III that these incursions realised by this king did not suppose the foundation of villages. These expeditions, carried out along with their brother Froila, consisted of killing the Muslims they found and gathering Christians to take them to the mountains.
In 1044, Entrena appears documented under the romance name Antelena.
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