Herguijuela de la Sierra is a village

Village

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 and municipality

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 in the province of Salamanca

Salamanca (province)

Salamanca is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, Valladolid, Ávila, and Cáceres; and by Portugal....

, western Spain

Spain

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, part of the autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is located 86 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca

Salamanca

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 and has a population

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 of 299 people

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. It is known, besides for its and other towns in the area's quaint old village air, for having a several hundred year old beech tree

Haya de Herguijuela

The Haya de Herguijuela is one of the last relics of the former Atlantic climate in the western Sistema Central in Spain. It is one of the most southern specimens of the European beech tree, surpassed only by another similar tree in Cáceres province and by a grove at the base of Mt. Etna in Sicily...

 nearby, one of two in all of western-central Spain.

Geography

The municipality

Municipality

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 covers an area

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 of 31.52 km².

It lies 800 metres above sea level

Sea level

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.

The post code is 37619.

The Sierra de Francia Park

Sierra de Francia

The Sierra de Francia is a mountain range located at the southern end of province of Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain. It is located about 70 km from Salamanca city, the provincial capital....

is situated in the municipality.