Campillo de Azaba

Campillo de Azaba is a Spanish municipality and town in the province of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is part of the Ciudad Rodrigo region and the Campo de Argañán sub-region. It belongs to the judicial district of Ciudad Rodrigo.

Its municipal area is made up of a single population center, it occupies a total area of 26.03 km² and according to the demographic data collected in the municipal register prepared by the INE in 2017, it has a population of 162 inhabitants.

It does not have large monuments. It has a church built in the XX century, a bullring and a retirement home.

Symbols

Shield

The heraldic shield that represents the municipality was approved with the following coat of arms:

« In the silver field, waved ring of silver-laden sugar, accompanied in the head of holm oak ripped from siple pointed out of sable hoop and at the tip of three arrows of gules lying on the girdle. To the royal crown ring closed»

Flag

The municipal flag was approved with the following textual description:

« Rectangular flag of proportions 2:3, consisting of three diagonal wave strips of the upper angle of the top to the bottom of the slope, two blues and a central white, being at the side of the green and red sole of the slope»

Etymology

It does not refer to the current predominant value 'rural area', which would be hardly justifiable in a context where everything is rural; rather, it must be understood in the sense, fully proven, of "treeless area", generally in contrast with a more wooded or pasture environment. There are many towns in Salamanca that bear the name of Campo or Campillo. In most of them, the semantic nuance alluding to 'plain area without trees' becomes transparent. The place name therefore adapts well to the bare wheels that mark the ecological footprint of small cities. The Campo de Ledesma occupies a notoriously treeless area to the west of the town. The Cazadero del Campo was famous, open fields with lots of hare, near El Campo de Ledesma, already mentioned by Madoz. The Campo de Salamanca is a region that in the time of Madoz corresponded to the open fields without trees located to the south of the city: “it is called that on the left. del Tormes”. There is a sub-region, according to Madoz, a “territory that includes several towns in the province of Salamanca, Sequeros district”, in the area between the Sierra Mayor and the Sierra Menor. Its name survives in the place name Herguijuela del Campo; derives from the contrast offered by its landscape of farmlands and wastelands with the wooded surroundings, mountains and meadows.

Geography

Northwest: Oñoro sources	North: Pepper.	Northeast: Carpio de Azaba
West: Nave de Haver (Portugal)		This: Stealing
Southwest: The Alamedilla	South: Ituero de Azaba	Sureste: The Bodon

Demographics

Graphic of demographic evolution of Campillo de Azaba between 1900 and 2022

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

According to the National Institute of Statistics, Campillo had, as of December 31, 2018, a total population of 164 inhabitants, of whom 98 were men and 68 women. Regarding the year 2000, the census reflects 265 inhabitants, of which 132 were men and 133 women. Therefore, the loss of population in the municipality for the period 2000-2018 has been 101 inhabitants, a 38% decrease.

Consistorial house.

Water tank.

History

Detail of the Salmantine West on a map of the centuryXVIIIwhere you can watch Campillo.

Although within the term of Campillo the current unpopulated area of Martinfernando was founded in the repopulation process carried out by the kings of León in the Middle Ages, the current town of Campillo de Azaba responds to a later settlement, in the Modern Age, being framed with the creation of the current provinces in 1833, in the province of Salamanca, within the Leonese Region.

Culture

Parties

• San Antonio (12, 13 and 14 June)
• San Sebastian (20 January)

Administration and politics

Municipal elections