Otero (Spain)
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Otero is a Spanish
Spain
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 municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 of Toledo province
Toledo (province)
Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Cáceres, and Ávila....

, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha is an autonomous community of Spain. Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities...

. Its population is 183 and its surface is 30 km², with a density of 6.1 people/km². The mayor
Mayor
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 is Mr. Juan Lorenzo Moreno Labrado, of the Partido Popular
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship...

. All the five municipal councillor
Councillor
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s belong to the Partido Popular.

In the 2004 Spanish General Election the Partido Socialista Obrero got 48.97% of the vote in Otero, the Partido Popular got 48.28% and Izquierda Unida
United Left (Spain)
The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...

 got 1.7%.

There is a freshman dormitory at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 named after Otero. The Otero dorm traditionally holds two floors of women and one floor of men and is widely considered to be one of the more sought-after dorms at the university. Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton
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lived in the dorm on the third floor from 1997-98.
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