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Frailes
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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Andalusia
- Province
- Jaén
- Comarca
- Sierra Sur
- Founded
- Pre-Roman
- Alcalde
- Encarnación Bienvenida Castro Cano ( PP )
- Total
- 41.37 km (15.97 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 980 m (3,220 ft)
- Density
- 40.63/km (105.2/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Frailero
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Dialing code
- (+34) 953 59 3x xx
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Part of
- Sierra Sur de Jaén
- Official name
- Frailes
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Jaén Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 1565
- Area
- 4.137
- Elevation
- 980
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Montillana
- Official website
- www.frailes.es
- Image
- Frailes, en Jaén (España).jpg
- Licence plate code
- J
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- Commons category
- Frailes
- postal code
- 23690
- male population
- 783
- female population
- 792
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Encyclopedic overview
Frailes is a municipality in the Spanish province of Jaén, autonomous community of Andalucia, with a total area of 41.37 km2, a population of 1551 inhabitants in 2024 (INE figures) and a population density of 43.41 inhab/ km2. It was immortalised by the British writer, Michael Jacobs, in his 2003 book, The Factory of Light.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frailes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.