Provincia de Palencia .

PROVINCE OF PALENCIA
It is a Spanish belonging to the autonomous community of Castilla and Leon, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula province. Its capital is the city of Palencia and has 191 municipalities; the most important towns in the province are Guardo (industrial town mining), Aguilar de Campo (galletera and tourist village in northern Palencia), Herrera de Pisuerga (village opens the doors of the Palencia mountain which highlights its summer activity and Crab Festival), Venta de Banos (important railway and industrial knot south of the province), Villamuriel de Cerrato (village south of Palencia which owes its great development to the factory of Renault and its proximity to Palencia) Cervera de Pisuerga (palentina the heart of the mountain) and Barruelo (mining town that was the most populous until age 60). It limits the north with Cantabria, the west with the province of Leon, the east with the province of Burgos and the south with the province of Valladolid.
Palencia is a Spanish city of the autonomous community of Castilla y Leon, capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the plain of Tierra de Campos, along the river Carrion.
Located 749 m above sea level, is far 235 km from Madrid and 47 km of Valladolid, with the two capitals closer together Spanish province. In 2010 Palencia had 82,169 inhabitants1 on an area of ​​94.71 square kilometers. Meanwhile, the outskirts of town, made up of 10 municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, together with those of the capital totaling more than 102,000 people. It is an important industrial center of Castile and Leon.