El Barco de Ávila


El Barco de Ávila is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. It forms part of the region of El Barco de Ávila - Piedrahíta and is located in the valley of Tormes river. Is the headboard of the natural region of Alto Tormes. In 2017 it has a population of 2436 population.

Place names and symbols

El Barco could take its name form a boat used to cross the river or, as different authors think, from different words of different languajes: bar, from basque bartzea or meeting between villages, form the Celtic house...

Location

El Barco de Ávila is located at the southwest of the province of Avila, near of the frontier of the provinces of Salamanca and Caceres, being the headboard of the region between the valley of the Tormes river and Aravalles river, better known as Alto Tormes. This municipality is located on an altitude of 1004 msnm. It has a surface of 12,68 km². It limits with La Carrera, El Losar del Barco, San Lorenzo del Tormes and Navatejares.

Weather

El Barco de Ávila has a warm weather with a dry and warm summer according to the climatic classification of Köppen.

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