Estépar

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

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| subdivision_type3 = Comarca

| subdivision_name3 = Alfoz de Burgos

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| postal_code = 09230

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Estépar is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 797 inhabitants.

Mass graves

Estépar is the site of multiple mass graves, discovered by the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory in 2014.{{Cite web |last=Lopez |date=2014 |title=Mass graves from Spain’s civil war uncovered |url=http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/18/spai-a18.html |access-date=19 July 2015 |website=World Socialist Web Site}} Initial reports referred to the graves containing the remains of at least 70 republicans who were killed by nationalists in August–September 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.{{cite web|url=http://www.demotix.com/news/5406878/70-bodies-exhumed-spanish-civil-war-mass-grave-est-par-spain#media-5406804 |title=70 bodies exhumed from Spanish Civil War mass grave in Estépar, Spain |publisher=Demotix.com |last=Arranz |first=María |date=25 July 2014 |access-date=19 July 2015 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821004043/http://www.demotix.com/news/5406878/70-bodies-exhumed-spanish-civil-war-mass-grave-est-par-spain#media-5406804 |archive-date=21 August 2015 }}

File:Spanish Civil War - Mass grave - Estépar, Burgos.jpg

=Identification of victims=

The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory make efforts to identify the bodies they exhume. However, by the time of the excavations at Estépar, the Spanish government under Mariano Rajoy did not give state support to such work,{{Cite news |title=El gobierno elimina en 2013 el presupuesto para memoria histórica |language=Spanish |work=Público |agency=Europa Press |url=http://www.publico.es/dinero/443160/el-gobierno-elimina-en-2013-el-presupuesto-para-memoria-historica |accessdate=13 June 2022}} and the Association indicated that at this site the task of identification was going to be complex.{{Cite web |title=Se recuperan 70 cuerpos de asesinados en Estépar |url=https://www.burgosconecta.es/2014/07/28/se-recuperan-70-cuerpos-de-ajusticiados-en-estepar-en-el-verano-del-36.html}}

In 2017 it was reported that some victims had been reburied in the cemetery of Estépar. Among the people believed to have been killed at Estépar who remain to be identified are the composer Antonio José Martínez Palacios and his brother.{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=¿Y si Antonio José no fue fusilado? |trans-title=And if Antonio Jose wasn't shot? |url=https://www.diariodeburgos.es/noticia/Z3A02A8B7-F2A4-8DE0-54B81AA59EA90C9C/Y-si-Antonio-Jose-no-fue-fusilado |website=Diario de Burgos |language=Spanish}}

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References

Category:Municipalities in the Province of Burgos