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Calatañazor

Soria · Spain
Calatañazor, Spain
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Tiny fortified hilltop settlement in Soria, Castile and León, Calatañazor takes its name from the Arabic for "Castle of Vultures" and was the site of the 1002 Battle of Calatañazor — a valley below still called el valle de la sangre (the Valley of Blood). The surrounding area holds a nature reserve of Spanish juniper trees, some of the largest on the Iberian Peninsula, and the Fuentona de Muriel, a spring fed by an underground river that draws cave divers. Nearby Cueva Maja contains rock drawings around 4,000 years old.

  • Population60
  • Nearest water from center0.1 km
  • Nearest mountain from center9.5 km

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