Boada (Salamanca)

Boada is a Spanish municipality and town in the province of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is integrated into the Ciudad Rodrigo region and the Campo de Yeltes sub-region, which is part of the immense Campo Charro plain.

Its municipal area is made up of the towns of Boada and Portions, it occupies a total area of 30.20 km² and according to the demographic data collected in the municipal register prepared by the INE in 2017, it has a population of 292 population.

Symbols

Shield

The heraldic shield that represents the municipality on September 14, 2013 was approved with the following coat of arms:

Shield in curve. First in gold, a silver and sable swallow, flying. Second in azur, handjo of golden wheat spikes profiled from sable tied to gules. In silver tablecloth with an oak ripped of siple loaded with six golden acorns and siple caps and a sable ox, a passerby crossing the submounted trunk of an eight-pointed azur star. The Royal Crown

Official State Gazette No. 214 of 6 November 2013

Demographics

Graphic of demographic evolution of Boada between 1900 and 2022

Source: Spanish National Statistical Institute - Graphical development by Wikipedia.

According to the National Statistics Institute, as of December 31, 2018, Boada had a total population of 315 inhabitants, of whom 155 were men and 160 women. Regarding the year 2000, the census reflects 426 inhabitants, of which 216 were men and 210 women. Therefore, the loss of population in the municipality for the period 2000-2018 has been 64 inhabitants, a 23% decrease.

The municipality is divided into two population centers. Of the 315 inhabitants that the municipality had in 2018, Boada had 313, of which 154 were men and 159 women, and El Mejorito with 2, of which 1 was men and 1 was women.

History

ABC vineyard on the "Boada Case", December 14, 1906.

The foundation of Boada dates back to the repopulation carried out by the kings of León in the Middle Ages, being framed in the Campo de Yeltes of the Diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo after its creation by King Ferdinand II of León in the 12th century, having in the Middle Ages already the current name. With the creation of the current provinces in 1833, Boada was framed in the province of Salamanca, within the Leonese Region.

Boada acquired considerable notoriety in 1905, after it came to light that the local authorities had asked the president of Argentina to transfer the entire town to that country, once the privatization of communal property had left landless till most of it, unleashing a certain hunger crisis in the town. This fact earned Boadenses being branded as "unpatriotic", to which they responded that "patriotism consists in eating and feeding their children".

After this controversy, a Royal Order was issued in 1906, entrusting the director of the Leonese agronomic region with the creation of a cultivation demonstration field in Boada, "providing it with modern cultivation material that serves as a teaching, organizing agronomic missions and whatever the fulfillment of this service that is entrusted to him suggests.

Administration and politics

Municipal elections