Mengíbar
Sign in to saveMengíbar is municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The municipality has a total area of 62.34 km2 and, as of 1 January 2022, it has a registered population of 9,965.
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- Municipality
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- Mengíbar
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- 270px
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- Guadalquivir river and the town of Mengíbar behind
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- Spain Province of Jaén#Spain Andalusia#Spain
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- Mengíbar
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- Location in the Province of Jaén
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- Spain
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- Autonomouscommunity
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- Andalusia
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- Jaén
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- 62.35
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- 323
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- auto
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Mengíbar is municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The municipality has a total area of 62.34 km2 and, as of 1 January 2022, it has a registered population of 9,965.
== History == Lying on the point where the flows into the Guadalquivir river and also close to the Guadalimar, the nearby Iberian oppidum of Illiturgi (Cerro de la Muela) was besieged and destroyed by Scipio Africanus in 206 BCE during the Second Punic War.