Geography

To get to know Castilla y León, we need first, to talk about its historical development, its settlements, heritage, and geography. The long distances among different points of the region, like 470 kilometres from Ágreda, in Soria, to Ciudad Rodrigo, in Salamanca, or 509 Km between Villafranca del Bierzo, north of León, and Arcos de Jalón, also in Soria, give us an idea of the region's wide area.

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Such wide area, has placed this region as the largest in Spain and one of the largest of the European Union.

Compound by nine provinces, Ávila, Burgos, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora, the region is located at the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. At south it borders with Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid and Extremadura, at north with Asturias, Cantabria, País Vasco and La Rioja, at east with Aragón and at west with Portugal and Galicia, id est, it borders with nine of the seventeen Spanish Autonomous regions. This makes this region the link among numerous Spanish regions, which, at the same time, let it maintain strong links and similarities with the nearest areas of these bordering regions.

Source: Territorial Information Centre. Castilla y León regional Government

More information: Spatial Data Infrastructure in Castilla y León (IDECyL)