Annex: Municipalities of the province of Cáceres

Municipal map.

In the province of Cáceres, one of the 50 provinces into which Spain is divided, there are 223 municipalities.

As a general rule, in this province the concept of "municipality" with that of "localidad", with most towns having their own town hall. However, there are municipalities made up of several towns, as is the case mainly in the municipalities of Las Hurdes, in those of Monfragüe and in those of irrigated areas.

Current municipalities

Disappeared municipalities

In this province there have been the following municipalities, now disappeared:

• Arco: a historic village that was a municipality until 1963, when it became a neighborhood of Cañaveral;
• El Bronco: town that was municipality in the second third of the centuryXIXbetween 1877 and 1887 to be a pedantic of Santa Cruz de Paniagua;
• Estorninos: villa that was incorporated into the municipality of Alcántara in the 1970s;
• Granadilla: villa whose land was flooded by the Gabriel and Galan reservoir in 1965. Its term was divided between Mohedas de Granadilla and Zarza de Granadilla. Alagón del Río is considered its historical heir;
• Grimaldo: historic villa that belonged to Holguera from the 1840s to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. It appears as a municipality in the censuses of the second third of the centuryXX.. It currently belongs to Cañaveral;
• Pino de Valencia: pedanía de Valencia de Alcántara which was a municipality briefly in the centuryXIX. Only in the census in 1857;
• Rivera Oveja: It was a municipality until the first years of the centuryXX.and since then it belongs to Casar de Palomero;
• Talavera la Vieja: ancient town of Roman origin whose land was flooded by the Valdecañas reservoir in 1965. His term was divided between Bohonal de Ibor and Peraleda de San Román. Rosalejo is considered its historical heir;
• Torviscoso: depopblado whose municipality was integrated in the 1950s in the municipality of Peraleda de la Mata;
• Trevejo: Pedanía de Villamiel which was briefly a municipality in two periods, in the mid-centuryXIX and mid-centuryXX..

In addition, there are several municipalities that only existed briefly during the 1830s, not being included in the first census of 1842: Araya, Asperilla, La Calera, Corchuelas, Espadañal, Navatrasierra, Puebla de Naciados, Retamosa, Roturas, Solana, Vadillo and Villarreal de San Carlos.