Pajares de los Oteros
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Pajares de los Oteros is a municipality located in the province of León
León (province)
León is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.About one quarter of its population of 500,200 lives in the capital, León. The weather is cold and dry during the winter....

, 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
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 (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 376 inhabitants.

Tradition

There is a local popular aphorism
Aphorism
An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates...

 that says:
El vino de Pajares
quita pesares
Wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 from Pajares
takes away sorrows


Villages

  • Pajares de los Oteros main town
  • Fuentes de los Oteros
  • Morilla de los Oteros
  • Pobladura de los Oteros
  • Quintanilla de os Oteros
  • Valdesaz de los Oteros
  • Velilla de los Oteros
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