Alquézar

Also known as Alquezar

Alquézar (Aragonese: Alquezra) is a municipality in the province of Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. As of 2012, its population was 301.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Alquézar
Settlement.other_name: Alquezra
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: File:Alquezar m1.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: View of Alquézar with the collegiate church on top
Settlement.image_shield: Escudo de Alquézar.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Spain
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Spain
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Autonomous community
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Huesca
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Comarca
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Somontano de Barbastro
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Judicial district
Settlement.subdivision_name4: Barbastro
Settlement.government_type: Mayor-council
Settlement.leader_party: PSOE-Aragón

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Alquézar
Demonym: alquezarana
Population: 328
Area: 32.358757
Elevation: 660
Official website: www.alquezar.org
Image: Alquezar m1.jpg
Dialing code: 974
Licence plate code: HU

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postal code: 22145
native label: Alquézar
Commons category: Alquézar
Commons gallery: Alquézar
male population: 164
female population: 139

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Alquézar (Aragonese: Alquezra) is a municipality in the province of Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. As of 2012, its population was 301.

==Overview== Situated on a limestone outcrop of the Eocene age to the west of the canyon of the Rio Vero in the Sierra y Cañones de Guara Natural Park, the village grew up around a castle and the Collegiate church of Santa Maria, which was consecrated in 1099.