Chercos
Sign in to saveChercos is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The original village (Chercos Viejo) lies about three kilometres south of modern-day Chercos (Chercos Nuevo), clinging to the side of the Sierra de los Filabres.
Key facts
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- Chercos, Spain
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- Alm04Chercos.jpg
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- Chercos
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- Flag of Chercos Spain.svg
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- Escudo de Chercos.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150
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- Country
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- Spain
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- Community
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- Andalusia
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- Municipality
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- Almería
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- Mayor
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- José Antonio Torres Sáez
- Settlement.leader_party
- PP
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 14
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
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Chercos is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The original village (Chercos Viejo) lies about three kilometres south of modern-day Chercos (Chercos Nuevo), clinging to the side of the Sierra de los Filabres.
Antonio Sáez Sáez became mayor of Chercos in the 1940s and was the principal architect behind the plan to move the old town of Chercos a few kilometres away, off the isolated mountainside and onto one of the few flat spots in the Sierra de los Filabres. Chercos was by then a mere shadow of what it had once been. By the 1940s it was a village inhabited by an ever-shrinking population consisting of small landowners.