La Codosera

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| settlement_type = municipality

| official_name = La Codosera

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| image_shield = Escudo de La Codosera.svg

| image_map = Puente-internacional-mas-pequeño-del-mundo.jpg

| map_caption = The smallest international bridge in the world

| pushpin_map = Spain Extremadura

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of La Codosera within Extremadura

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Spain

| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community

| subdivision_name1 = Extremadura

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Badajoz

| subdivision_type3 = Municipality

| subdivision_name3 = La Codosera

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| area_total_km2 = 69

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| elevation_m = 355

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| population_density_km2 = auto

| timezone = CET

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| timezone_DST = CEST

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La Codosera (A Codesseira, in Portuguese) is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 2,269 inhabitants. It is located close to the international border with Portugal at the eastern end of the Serra de São Mamede.[http://www.historiadelacodosera.es/ History of La Codosera]

The highest point in the municipal term is 596 m high La Lamparona.[http://www.turismorural.com/Ficha_Inf_Turistica.aspx?ID=5992 Información Turística del Municipio de La Codosera]

It is most commonly known as the seat of the Sanctuary of Chandavila, a popular Catholic pilgrimage shrine, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Sorrows said to have occurred in 1945 to Marcelina Barroso Expósito and Afra Brígido Blanco.