Villarrubia de los Ojos is a municipality

Municipality

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 in Ciudad Real

Ciudad Real

Ciudad Real is a city in Castile-La Mancha, Spain, with a population of c. 74,000. It is the capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It has a stop on the AVE high-speed rail line and has begun to grow as a long-distance commuter suburb of Madrid, located 115 miles to the north. A high capacity...

, Castile-La Mancha

Castile-La Mancha

Castile-La Mancha is an autonomous community of Spain. Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities...

, Spain

Spain

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. 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...

 the municipality has a population of 11,119 inhabitants.

The Ojos del Guadiana are located within the Villarrubia de los Ojos municipal term. They are the source of the Guadiana

Guadiana

The Guadiana , or Odiana, is an international river located on the Portuguese–Spanish border, separating Extremadura and Andalucia from Alentejo and Algarve...

 river, the fourth longest river of the Iberian peninsula. There's also a National Park, the Tablas de Daimiel National Park

Tablas de Daimiel National Park

Tablas de Daimiel National Park is a nature reserve in south-central Spain on La Mancha plain in the province of Ciudad Real. It is a wetland in an arid part of Spain. Tablas de Daimiel is the smallest of Spain's fourteen national parks...

 located in the Tablas de Daimiel wetlands, shared with the neighbouring municipality, Daimiel

Daimiel

Daimiel is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 17,342. The Tablas de Daimiel National Park, a well-known natural reserve, lies partly within the boundaries of the town.-Spanish Civil War:...

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Geography

The landforms of Villarrubia de los Ojos are mountaineus in the north and flat in the south. The weather is quite strong with very cold winters and very hot summers. There are some mountains over 1.200 metres and the flat zone is at 550 metres above sea level in the Spanish central plateau.

External links

• Villarrubia de los Ojos In Spanish Wikipedia
• Web of the City Hall of Villarrubia de los Ojos
• Private web of Villarrubia de los Ojos
• About Trevor John Dadson and Villarrubia de los Ojos