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Key facts
- Sovereign state
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Andalusia
- Province
- Málaga
- Comarca
- Axarquía
- Mayor
- Pedro Fernández Palomo ( PSOE )
- Total
- 66 km (25 sq mi)
- Density
- 55/km (140/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Colmenarenses or Tinajeros
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Part of
- Axarquía
- Official name
- Colmenar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Málaga Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 3626
- Area
- 66
- Elevation
- 696
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Comares
- Official website
- www.colmenar.es
- Image
- Colmenar Ciudad.jpg
- Licence plate code
- MA
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- Commons category
- Colmenar
- postal code
- 29170
- male population
- 1728
- female population
- 1648
- P8168
- Inspiration
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Colmenar is a municipality in the province of Málaga in Andalusia, southern Spain.
Colmenar has been populated since the Neolithic age, as testified by the remains found at the Cueva de las Pulseras. After the Reconquest, the town was named after a nearby farm known as Colmenar (Spanish: 'apiary') for its great number of beehives. The history of the village began in 1487, but it is not before 1777 that it became independent as a township.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colmenar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.