Valdelcubo
Guadalajara · Castilla-La Mancha
Valdelcubo is a municipality and small town located in the province of Guadalajara, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the National Statistics Institute (INE), the municipality has a population of 42 inhabitants.
History
The name Valdelcubo is traditionally interpreted as deriving from valle (valley) and cubo (tower or tub), referring to the fertile valley and a watchtower that once monitored the road between the Tagus, Duero and Ebro river basins, as well as the historic salt routes of the region.
By the mid-19th century, the town had a population of 238 inhabitants and a total of 55 houses. The locality is described in volume XV of Pascual Madoz's Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar (1849), which records its parish church dedicated to Santiago el Mayor (Saint James the Greater), a primary school with 20 pupils, seven flour mills, and production of cereals, legumes, potatoes, vegetables and fruit, as well as livestock farming and fishing of crayfish and barbel in the Salado stream.
Since the mid-20th century, Valdelcubo has experienced significant rural depopulation, a trend common to many villages in inland Spain, with the population declining from several hundred inhabitants to fewer than fifty today.
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Alcaldía: Pedro Ranz Pérez
Town hall of Valdelcubo
Alcaldía: Pedro Ranz Pérez
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How to get there
- 🚗 97 km from Guadalajara (about 68 min by car)
- 🚗 127 km from Alcalá de Henares (about 90 min by car)
- 🚗 156 km from Madrid (about 110 min by car)
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- ✈️ 141 km from Madrid-Barajas airport (about 100 min by car)
- ✈️ 175 km from Logroño-Agoncillo airport (about 124 min by car)
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