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Chercos is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The original village (Chercos Viejo) lies about three kilometres south of modern-day Chercos (Chercos Nuevo), clinging to the side of the Sierra de los Filabres.
Antonio Sáez Sáez became mayor of Chercos in the 1940s and was the principal architect behind the plan to move the old town of Chercos a few kilometres away, off the isolated mountainside and onto one of the few flat spots in the Sierra de los Filabres. Chercos was by then a mere shadow of what it had once been. By the 1940s it was a village inhabited by an ever-shrinking population consisting of small landowners.
In the days when old Chercos was still a going concern, tending to the land, which over the centuries had been terraced in order to deal with the steepness of the terrain, was carried out in the same way it had been for hundreds of years, with the conservation of the scarce water resource the principal concern. The rules around the sharing of water in that arid land were those established by the Arabs centuries before. Each landowner was allocated a certain day and time of the week during which he could divert water from the common canals onto his land. This schedule and the rules attached to it were followed to the letter. Since water was so scarce and necessary a resource, anyone who dared deviate from the established norms did so at his own peril.
The golden age for Chercos came during the period of exploitation of the deposits of high quality marble found in the area. This marble was second in quality only to that found in Carrera, Italy. Those who did not work the land walked several kilometres each day to work in marble mines around Macael.
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| Renting a flat (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for the province of Almería · 24,540 leases | €450/month |
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| Renting a house (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for the province of Almería | €400/month |
| Buying a home (appraised value)MIVAU, appraised value of private housing · Q2 2026 · figure for the province of Almería | €1,493/m² |
| Average net household incomeINE, Income Distribution Atlas · 2023 · figure for Chercos | €25,177/year |
| Petrol 95Ministry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 4 petrol stations within 10 km | €1.817/litre |
| DieselMinistry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 4 petrol stations within 10 km | €1.852/litre |
Sources: State Housing Rent Index System and appraised housing value (Spanish Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda); Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE); fuel prices (Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition). Open data, reusable with attribution. The set lunch menu and coffee aren't shown: there are no public statistics on those prices by village or by province.
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