Zamayon

Zamayón is a Spanish municipality and town in the province of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is integrated within the Tierra de Ledesma region. It belongs to the judicial district of Salamanca and to the Comarca de Ledesma Commonwealth.

Its municipal area is made up of the towns of El Plantío, Zamayón and Zamocino, it occupies a total area of 30.90 km² and according to demographic data collected by the INE in 2017, it has a population of 207 inhabitants.

Symbols

Heraldic representation of Zamayon's approved blazon.

Shield

The heraldic shield that represents the municipality was approved on January 17, 1995 with the following coat of arms:

"Wood Shield, with the Christ of the Battles to the natural, added to a cross of Malta, modern, silver, shredded from the Spanish Royal Crown. »

Official State Gazette No. 42 of 18 February 1995

Etymology

The disposition of the hamlet on a small conical hill is notorious, at whose vertex is found, already in ruins, the so-called house of the Vinculeros. The place name will allude to this fact. It is a double diminutive of the voice top < The t. CȲMA. Regularly *CȲMĀCŬLU- > cimayo, cimao; Castilian form cimajo. The place of Los Cimayos (Muga de Sayago) can be compared. The transfer of the accent caused by the second suffication in -ón (diminutive pejorative value: 'little mound') frees the protonic vowel allowing the assimilation process *Cimayón > Zamayon. The name of the Soriano Zamajón town will have the same origin. In the neighboring meadow of Zamocino, the addition of a new differentiating diminutive suffix can be seen. The hypothesis put forward by Llorente, according to which the place name could come from a pre-Indo-European root *sam-, alluding to humid soils and rich in vegetation, is weakened. in light of ancient documentation.

History

The reconquest of Zamayón was carried out by the kings of León once Ledesma, Juzbado, Guadramiro or Salamanca were reconquered by Ramiro II of León in the X. Later, in 1136 Zamayón was granted by King Alfonso VII of León to the bishopric of Salamanca. Later, Zamayón was part of the command of the Order of San Juan together with Casasola, La Izcalina, Juzbado and Valdelosa. With the creation of the current provinces in 1833, Zamayón was framed in the province of Salamanca, within the Leonese Region.

Fronton.

Hermitage and graveyard.

Demographics

Graphic of demographic evolution of Zamayon between 1900 and 2021

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

Population centers

The municipality is divided into several population centers, which had the following population in 2015 according to the INE.

Administration and politics

Municipal elections

Transportation

Three highways run to the municipal capital, the DSA-511 highway, which connects the town with Valdelosa, the SA-CV-62 that allows communication with Palacios del Arzobispo and the SA-305 highway and finally the SA- CV-143, which is born from the junction with the DSA-510 in Torresmenudas and through which it allows communication with the neighboring municipalities of Forfoleda and Calzada de Valdunciel, where there is an exit from the Ruta de la Plata highway that connects Gijón with Seville and allows you to go both to Zamora and the north of the peninsula as well as to the provincial capital and the south of the country. The aforementioned DSA-510 road also allows the link with the N-630, along the same route as the dual carriageway, when it ends at it.

There are no regular bus connections or rail services and the nearest airport is Salamanca Airport, 52km away.