Jaramillo Quemado is a municipality located in the province of Burgos

Burgos (province)

The province of Burgos is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia, Cantabria, Vizcaya, Álava, La Rioja, Soria, Segovia, and Valladolid. Its capital is the city of Burgos...

, Castile and León

Castile and León

Castile and León is an autonomous community in north-western Spain. It was so constituted in 1983 and it comprises the historical regions of León and Old Castile...

, Spain

Spain

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. According to the 2004 census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 (INE

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain)

The National Institute of Statistics is the official organisation in Spain that collects statistics about demography, economy, and Spanish society. Every 10 years, this organisation conducts a national census. The last census took place in 2001....

), the municipality has a population of 15 inhabitants.

History

Jaramillo Quemado received a fuero

Fuero

Fuero , Furs , Foro and Foru is a Spanish legal term and concept.The word comes from Latin forum, an open space used as market, tribunal and meeting place...

from Count Pedro González de Lara

Pedro González de Lara

Pedro González de Lara was a Castilian magnate. He served Alfonso VI as a young man, and later became the lover of Alfonso's heiress, Queen Urraca. He may have joined the First Crusade in the following of Raymond IV of Toulouse, earning the nickname el Romero...

 and Countess Eva in 1128. Although the original charter has been lost, a copy was made by Prudencio de Sandoval

Prudencio de Sandoval

Fray Prudencio de Sandoval was a Spanish historian and Benedictine, the Bishop of Tuy from 1608 to 1612 and Bishop of Pamplona thereafter until his death. He continued the chronicle begun by Florián de Ocampo and Ambrosio de Morales, and rather uncritically compiled a large collection of...

 in the seventeenth century. It shows that the village owed the comparatively large annual sum of five silver solidi

Solidus (coin)

The solidus was originally a gold coin issued by the Romans, and a weight measure for gold more generally, corresponding to 4.5 grams.-Roman and Byzantine coinage:...

to the count for its privileges.