Hervás
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Hervás (; ) is a Spanish town in the north of the province of Cáceres. It had 3,907 inhabitants in 2023. It is 120 km from Cáceres and 90 km far from Salamanca. It is the capital of the Valle de Ambroz comarca in the Ambroz River valley. It has a soft continental climate.
Key facts
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- Hervás
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- Municipality
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Spanish
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info
- Hervás
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- Vista de Hervás, Extremadura (España).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 280px
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Hervás
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- Escudo de Hervás.svg
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- Spain Extremadura#Spain
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- Location in Extremadura
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- Country
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- Autonomous Community
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Cáceres
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- Comarca
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- Valle del Ambroz
- Settlement.leader_party
- People's Party
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- Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Hervás
- Demonym
- Hervasense
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Cáceres Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 3898
- Area
- 59.78
- Elevation
- 688
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Ambroz Valley
- Shares border with
- Gargantilla
- Official website
- www.hervas.es
- Image
- Vista de Hervás, Extremadura (España).jpg
- Licence plate code
- CC
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- Commons category
- Hervás
- postal code
- 10700
- native label
- Hervás
- male population
- 1952
- female population
- 2024
- P8168
- Marbach
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- La Judería
- Economy
- Remarkable buildings
- See also
- References
- External links
Hervás (; ) is a Spanish town in the north of the province of Cáceres. It had 3,907 inhabitants in 2023. It is 120 km from Cáceres and 90 km far from Salamanca. It is the capital of the Valle de Ambroz comarca in the Ambroz River valley. It has a soft continental climate.
==History== In the 12th century, the Knights Templar built Santihervás hermitage under the patronage of the Christian martyrs Gervasius and Protasius. By this hermitage the town started to grow during 13th and 14th centuries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hervás” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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