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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Castile and León
- Province
- Ávila
- Municipality
- El Oso
- Alcalde mayor
- Luciano Arroyo Martín ( PSOE )
- Total
- 18.49 km (7.14 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 893 m (2,930 ft)
- Density
- 6.76/km (17.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Oso, El
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Province of Ávila
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 125
- Area
- 18
- Elevation
- 894
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- San Pascual
- Official website
- www.elosoavila.org
- Image
- Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, El Oso, 04.jpg
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- postal code
- 05164
- Commons category
- El Oso, Ávila
- female population
- 68
- male population
- 92
- P8168
- Adalbert Gyrowetz
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Encyclopedic overview
El Oso is a municipality (pop. 229) in the Spanish province of Ávila, in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.
The village takes its name (which means "the bear") from a megalithic monument outside the church. The monument in question may not have been intended to represent a bear. It is classed as a Verraco, a type of prehistoric monument found in central Spain, which shares its name with the Spanish word for a boar. Local legend identifies this example as a bear.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Oso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.