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Grijota is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2019 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 2,319 inhabitants.

Key facts

Settlement.type
municipality
Settlement.official_name
Grijota
Settlement.image_flag
Bandera de Grijota.svg
Settlement.image_shield
Escudo de Grijota.svg
Settlement.image_skyline
Iglesia de Santa Cruz de Grijota (Palencia).jpg
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Autonomous community
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Province
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Grijota
Settlement.area_total_km2
28
Settlement.area_water_km2
0
Settlement.elevation_m
734
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.timezone
CET
Settlement.utc_offset
+1
Settlement.timezone_DST
CEST
Settlement.utc_offset_DST
+2

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Grijota
Country
Spain
Continent
Europe
Population
2839
Area
28.58
Elevation
722
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Palencia
Official website
www.grijota.es
Image
Iglesia de Santa Cruz de Grijota (Palencia).jpg
Licence plate code
P
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postal code
34192
Commons category
Grijota
located in/on physical feature
Tierra de Campos
male population
1214
female population
1105
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Grijota is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2019 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 2,319 inhabitants.

It is 7km away from the capital of the province, Palencia, and 57km from the city of Valladolid, capital of the region of Castile and León. The municipality has a village and then groups of houses, some of the containing 100 or more neighbours. Thus, despite being located in an area affected by depopulation, it is in constant urban growth since the late 1990s. The first of them started to be built in 1999 and they have been building new ones since. Thanks to them Grijota is the ninth most populated municipality of the Province of Palencia.

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

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