Provincia de Burgos .

BURGOS PROVINCE

It is a Spanish province in the north of the Iberian Peninsula and its capital is the city of Burgos. It limits the north with Cantabria, the east with the Basque Country, La Rioja and the province of Soria, the south with the province of Segovia and west with the provinces of Valladolid and Palencia. It covers an area of ​​14,022 square kilometers and in 2015 had 364,002 inhabitants.
In the province are the historical territories that led to the birth of Castile. In addition, in the locality of Valpuesta are documents with texts in Castilian oldest known, called cartularies of valpuesta.
It has a wide variety of landscapes (more than eighty landscape units), due to be located between the beginning of the Cantabrian Mountains and the Iberian addition to pouring water to the three pensinsulares watersheds. It has the longest underwater cave in the world in the field of inland waters.
It is the province of Spain with the largest number of municipalities, a total of 371, currently grouped into seven judicial districts: Aranda de Duero, Briviesca, Burgos, Lerma, Miranda de Ebro, Salas de los Infantes and Villarcayo. Besides the capital, the province has two other communes with more than 30,000 inhabitants: Miranda de Ebro and Aranda de Duero, characterized by high industrialization.
It has the only oil field in the country on land, located in the region of La Lora, active today. In the province of Spain’s oldest nuclear power plant not dismantled is located, and occupies the first national place in wind power generation, to have more than 1,000 mills.
There are a variety of regions around the wine sector, including notably the Designation of Origin Ribera del Duero, chosen as the best region in the world in 2012.
It is an important area of ​​communications, connecting France and Portugal central plateau. By the Burgos province runs the historic route of the Camino de Santiago.
In 2010, the province ranked first in living standards of the community, and the 5th of Spain.