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El Mirón

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Also known as El Miron

municipality of Spain

Key facts

Country
Spain
Autonomous community
Castile and León
Province
Ávila
Municipality
El Mirón
Total
31.08 km (12.00 sq mi)
Elevation
1,265 m (4,150 ft)
Density
3.0/km (7.7/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+1 ( CET )
Summer dst
UTC+2 ( CEST )
Website
Official website

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Encyclopedic overview

El Mirón is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain.

The name came into attention upon the discovery an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) skeleton in 2015 from the El Mirón Cave. The skeleton was that of a woman and is coated with ochre (a red pigment), hence she is nicknamed The Red Lady of El Mirón. The woman is about 35 to 40 years of age, and was buried around 18,700 years ago.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Mirón” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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