Saucedilla
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St John the Baptist´s church of Saucedilla, with the Sierra de Gredos snow-covered behind
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| Coordinates: 39°51′08.46″N 5°40′40.82″W / 39.8523500°N 5.6780056°W | ||
| Country | Spain | |
| Autonomous community | Extremadura | |
| Province | Cáceres | |
| Comarca | Campo Arañuelo | |
| Municipality | Saucedilla | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Urbano García Díaz (Independent) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 60 km2 (20 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 258 m (846 ft) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 859 | |
| • Density | 12.2/km2 (32/sq mi) | |
| Demonym(s) | naveros | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Website | http://www.saucedilla.es | |
Saucedilla is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), it has a population of 859 inhabitants. It belongs to the Campo Arañuelo County (Comarca del Campo Arañuelo), the capital of which is Navalmoral de la Mata.
The situation of Saucedilla is impressive. In the north, the vast bulk of the Sierra de Gredos and the Tiétar River; in the south and west, the Miravete Sierra (Casas de Miravete), the Tagus River (Tajo in Spanish) and the Serrejón Sierra. The climate is Mediterranean. The village stands in an extensive plain of clayey grounds.
The municipality is surrounded by immense dehesas. A dehesa is a light wood of holm oaks (Quercus ilex) or cork oaks (Quercus suber). There, the breeding (animal husbandry) of cattle, sheep (for meat and wool), goats (for meat and cheese), and pigs, (Iberian pig) for meat like jamón ibérico (Iberian ham) and jamón serrano, are common. The breeding of fighting bulls (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 Toril.
Arrocampo Reservoir was created at 1976 to cool the turbines of the Almaraz nuclear power plant, which is near Saucedilla. With a system of dams and dikes, the water, taken from Tagus river, covers a circuit of 11 km which allow the cooling of these turbines.
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