Coomonte

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| official_name = Coomonte, Spain

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| image_skyline = Coomonte e Iglesia de San Juan Bautista.jpg

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{ESP}}

| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Castile and León}}

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = {{flag|Province of Zamora|name=Zamora}}

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = Coomonte

| leader_title = Alcalde (Mayor)

| leader_name = Maximiliano Federico Velicias Baladrón

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| area_total_km2 = 10

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| elevation_m = 732

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| population_as_of = 2023

| population_footnotes = {{Cite web |first= |date=2023 |title=Zamora: Población por municipios y sexo |url=https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Datos.htm?t=2906 |website=INE Instituto Nacional de Estadística (National Institute of Statistics of Spain)}}

| population_total = 175

| population_density_km2 = auto

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

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File:Former Town Hall.jpg

Coomonte is a municipality and a town located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2023 Census (INE), the municipality has a population of 175 inhabitants.{{Cite web |first= |date=2023 |title=Zamora: Población por municipios y sexo |url=https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Datos.htm?t=2906 |website=INE Instituto Nacional de Estadística (National Institute of Statistics of Spain)}}

Geography

The municipality is formed by just one population nucleus, and it is located at the north border of the Province of Zamora, bordering with León. The surrounding municipalities of Coomonte are Alija del Infantado (North), Villaferrueña (West), Maire de Castroponce (West) and Santa María de la Vega (South).

History

The first written references about Coomonte are dated about the Late Middle Ages.{{Cite book |last=Villar Hidalgo |first=Ursino |title=Alija del Infantado |publisher=Ediciones U.V.H. |year=1989 |language=es}} They refer to the Church of San Juan (Saint John Baptist), their priests and donations made to the monastery of San Esteban de Nogales. During the 14th and 15th centuries there were several documents naming the council ("concejo") of Coomonte. Most of the documents of the Middle Ages and the Renaissence that contains the name of the town are court orders ("ejecutorias").{{Cite web |title=PARES Archivos Españoles (Spanish Historic Archives) |url=http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/find?nm=&texto=Coomonte |website=PARES Archivos Españoles (Spanish Historic Archives), search: Coomonte}}

During the early 16th century, the council of Coomonte hired the dutch painter Juan de Holanda to make the altar of the church. During that century soldiers of Coomonte took part in the wars of the King of Spains, for example in 1580, enlisting them to the war of Philip II to the annexation of Portugal to the Spanish Crown.

During the 17th century, is known thar the flood of the Órbigo river caused catastrophic events and the population decresed. Along this century, also are frequent the documentation about court orders and census.

File:Bodegas de coomonte.jpg

File:Domingo de resurreción.jpg

In the 18th century the historic information is higher in part because the Catastro of Ensenada give us many data about economic life and professions in the town. Including the reference to the traditional wineries owned to domestic use by the families.{{Cite web |title=MINISTERIO DE CULTURA - Portal de Archivos Españoles |url=https://pares.mcu.es/Catastro/servlets/ServletController?accion=4&opcionV=3&orden=0&loc=6818&pageNum=1 |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=pares.mcu.es}}

List of mayors

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|+ style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;" |List of mayors since 1979 local election{{cite web |access-date=4 February 2018 |archive-date=7 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207113517/http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/areas/politica_local/sistema_de_informacion_local_-SIL-.html |editor=Ministerio del Interior de España |title=Sistema de Información Local |url=http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/areas/politica_local/sistema_de_informacion_local_-SIL-.html}}

! style="background:#efefef;" |Period

! style="background:#efefef;" |Name

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align="left" |1979-1982

|José Morán Miguélez

|UCD

align="left" |1982-1983

|Manuel Ortiz Martínez

|UCD

align="left" |1983-1987

|Andrés Peñín Martínez

|AP