Saucedilla


Saucedilla is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 859 inhabitants.
It belongs to the Campo Arañuelo County, the capital of which is Navalmoral de la Mata.

Geography and nature

The situation of Saucedilla is impressive. In the north, the vast bulk of the Sierra de Gredos and the Tiétar River; in the south and west, the Miravete Sierra, the Tagus River and the Serrejón Sierra.
The climate is Mediterranean. The village stands in an extensive plain of clayey grounds.

Dehesa

The municipality is surrounded by immense dehesas. A dehesa is a light wood of holm oaks or cork oaks. There, the breeding of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, for meat like jamón ibérico and jamón serrano, are common. The breeding of fighting bulls is also widespread. There are some ganaderías of these wild bulls in Saucedilla and others nearby villages like Casatejada or Toril.

Arrocampo Reservoir

was created at 1976 to cool the turbines of the Almaraz nuclear power plant, which is near Saucedilla. With a system of dams and dikes, the water, taken from Tagus river, covers a circuit of 11 km which allow the cooling of these turbines.

''Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental'' (main droveway of Western León)

Saucedilla was always a land of sheep. Extremadura, was a passing and transhumance land from the Middle Age. In medieval Spain, there were droving flocks of sheep on the largest scale, which were carefully organized by the system of the Mesta, crossing Extremadura and other Spanish regions. These long distance movements of sheep and cattle were made along drovers road called cañadas reales in Castile, cabañeras in Aragon, carreradas in Catalonia. The Cañada Real Leonesa Occidental cross Saucedilla by the south, near the cemetery. There is a country house, close the graveyard, for sheepherds and cowherds who cover the droveway still today.

Irrigated lands

, a characteristic wild bird of Arrocampo

Special Protection Areas

There are two Special Protection Areas in Saucedilla. They were created in 2005.

Arrocampo Ornithological Park

There are two ornithological routes marked with wooden blazes and an Information Office near the municipal swimming pools in the south entry of the village.

Pictures of the area around Saucedilla

Demography


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