Saucedilla
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Saucedilla is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres
Cáceres (province)
The province of Cáceres is a province of western Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Extremadura. It is bordered by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila, Toledo, and Badajoz, and by Portugal....

, Extremadura
Extremadura
Extremadura is an autonomous community of western Spain whose capital city is Mérida. Its component provinces are Cáceres and Badajoz. It is bordered by Portugal to the west...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. According to the 2010 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 859 inhabitants.
It belongs to the Campo Arañuelo County (Comarca del Campo Arañuelo) which capital is Navalmoral de la Mata
Navalmoral de la Mata
Navalmoral de la Mata is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, western Spain. In 2009, the municipality had a population of 17,228 inhabitants.-History:...

.

Geography and Nature

The location of Saucedilla is really spectacular. On the north, the Sierra de Gredos
Sierra de Gredos
The Sierra de Gredos is a mountain range in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, located between Ávila, Cáceres, Madrid and Toledo. It has been declared a regional park. Its highest point is Pico Almanzor, at 2,592 metres....

 and the Tiétar
Tiétar
Tiétar is a river of Spain. It is a tributary of the Tagus. Its source is in the Sierra de Gredos mountain range and has a length of 170km. It flows into the Tagus at Monfragüe.-External links:*...

 River; on south and west, the Miravete Sierra and the Tagus River (Tajo in spanish) and Serrejón Sierra.
The climate is mediterranean (with tendency to dryness).

Dehesa
Dehesa
Dehesa may refer to:Places*Dehesa , in the Granite Hills and Alpine areas of San Diego County the U.S. state of California.*Dehesa, Veracruz, Mexican municipality*Dehesa de Montejo, SpainThings...



The village is surrounded with immense dehesas. A dehesa is a light holm-oak wood.

Arrocampo reservoir
Reservoir
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