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View of El Cardoso de la SierraCruccone · CC BY-SA 3.0

El Cardoso de la Sierra

Mountain hamlet

El Cardoso de la Sierra is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 75 inhabitants.

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It is not known when the village of El Cardoso was founded, although its existence is attested from the 9th century, when Buitrago del Lozoya fell into Christian hands and they began to repopulate the Sierra de Ayllón. In the 11th century, El Cardoso, El Vado, and Colmenar de la Sierra were included in the Ochavo de la Sierra of the Community of Villa and Land of Sepúlveda.

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Village information

Province
Guadalajara
Autonomous community
Castilla-La Mancha
Population (INE 2025)
49
Altitude
1,284 m
Area (IGN)
184 km²
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What to see

  1. 1Centro de Interpretación El Cardoso de la Sierra
  2. 2Casa Grande de Santuy
  3. 3Cascada de Cañamar
  4. 4Iglesia de San Miguel
  5. 5Iglesia de San Ramón Nonnato
  6. 6Iglesia de Santa María Magdalena
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What to do

  1. 1Parque Natural del Hayedo de Tejera Negra
  2. 2Hiking: PR-GU 4 · El Barranco de El Jarama
  3. 3Cycling route: La Puebla * La Hiruela
  4. 4Cycling route: LA Quesera
  5. 5Hiking: Camino a Vihuela-Tamajón
  6. 6Hiking: PR-GU 02 · Matallana - Colmenar
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  • 5 places to stayIllustrative photo · Valdavia · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Accommodation

    5 places to stay in El Cardoso de la Sierra

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  • 1 restaurantIllustrative photo · Roland PSD · CC BY-SA 3.0 es

    Eat

    1 restaurant in El Cardoso de la Sierra

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  • 6 experiencesIllustrative photo · Basotxerri · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Experiences

    6 experiences in El Cardoso de la Sierra

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Useful information

Everything you need for your visit or your day-to-day

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Town council

    • Phone: 91 869 70 84

Services and transport

Education, sport and elderly care

Connectivity

  • Fibre broadband· of homes64 %
  • 4G mobile coverage· of homes99 %
  • 5G coverage· of homes83 %

No data on: tourist office, train station, transport, petrol stations, pharmacies, health centre, banks, ATMs, supermarkets, post office, EV chargers, motorhomes, car parks, street market, nursery school, primary school, secondary school, pool, care home.

Data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), extract from October 2026: we count what is mapped within the municipal boundary. "No data" means OpenStreetMap doesn't have it, not that it doesn't exist. Town hall contact details: General Database of Local Entities (Spanish Ministry of Finance); tourist offices: each region's open registry, where it publishes one. Connectivity: Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation, % of homes covered in June 2025.

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Where to sleep in El Cardoso de la Sierra

5 registered places to stay

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