Guadalupe, Cáceres
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Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
located in Las Villuercas
Las Villuercas
Las Villuercas is a comarca located in the province of Cáceres, western Spain. It belongs to the Autonomous Community of Extremadura.Despite of the traditional strong identity of its inhabitants, this historical region has not been able to achieve the necessary legal recognition for its...
comarca, province of Cáceres
Cáceres (province)
The province of Cáceres is a province of western Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Extremadura. It is bordered by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila, Toledo, and Badajoz, and by Portugal....
, Extremadura
Extremadura
Extremadura is an autonomous community of western Spain whose capital city is Mérida. Its component provinces are Cáceres and Badajoz. It is bordered by Portugal to the west...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
with currently just over 2,000 inhabitants. The monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
Santa María de Guadalupe
The Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic monastic establishment in Guadalupe, Cáceres, a province of the Extremadura autonomous community of Spain It was one of the most important monasteries in the country for more than four centuries...
is situated here. The Guadalupe River
Guadalupe River (Spain)
The Guadalupe or Guadalupejo River is a tributary of the Guadiana, in Spain. It gave its name to the town of Guadalupe, and by extension to the monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe. The name derives from the Arabic word for "valley" or "river" and the Latin word lupus, meaning wolf....
has its origins here.