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View of Jerez de los CaballerosPaulo Valdivieso from Lisboa, Portugal · CC BY-SA 2.0

Jerez de los Caballeros

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Jerez de los Caballeros is a town of south-western Spain, in the province of Badajoz. It is located on two hills overlooking the River Ardila, a tributary of the Guadiana, 18 km east of the Portuguese border. The old town is surrounded by a Moorish wall with six gates. The town is said to have been founded by Alfonso IX of Leon in 1229; in 1232 it was extended by his son Ferdinand III the Saint, who gave it to the Knights Templar. Hence the name Jerez de los Caballeros, Jerez of the Knights.

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Jerez de los Caballeros is the birthplace of the explorers Hernando de Soto and Vasco Núñez de Balboa. On 10 May 1539, Hernando de Soto wrote in his will: "That a chapel be erected within the Church of San Miguel in Jerez de los Cabelleros, Spain, where De Soto grew up, at a cost of 2,000 ducats, with an altarpiece featuring the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Conception, that his tomb be covered in a fine black broadcloth topped by a red cross of the Order of the Knights of Santiago, and on special occasions a pall of black velvet with the De Soto coat of arms be placed on the altar; that a chaplain be hired at the salary of 12,000 maravedis to perform five masses every week for the souls of De Soto, his parents and wife; that thirty masses be said for him the day his body was interred, and twenty for our Lady of the Conception, ten for the Holy Ghost, sixty for souls in purgatory and masses for many others as well; that 150000 maravedis be given annually to his wife Isabel for her needs and an equal amount used yearly to marry off three orphan damsels...the poorest that can be found," who would then assist his wife and also serve to burnish the memory of De Soto as a man of charity and substance.

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Village information

Province
Badajoz
Autonomous community
Extremadura
Population (INE 2025)
9,095
Altitude
486 m
Area (IGN)
737 km²
Postcode
06380
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Jerez de los Caballeros at a glance

Distance to a city
Badajoz, 65 km away
The nearest city of over 50,000 people (150,209 inhab.)
As the crow flies: further by road.
Population
9,095 inhabitants
INE population register, 2025
Connections and getting around
Bus: 1 stop in the village
Train: Fregenal de la Sierra, 20 km away
Airport: Badajoz, 64 km away
Stops and stations from OpenStreetMap; distances as the crow flies.
Grants and subsidies
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Regional government website (Extremadura)
Official grants search (BDNS)
Youth Rent Allowance (Ministry of Housing)
Local work
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Housing
Rent: €303/month
Municipal median, 2024
Buying: €1,029/m² (appraised value, provincial average)
Where each figure comes from
Healthcare
5 health centres
5 pharmacies
Education
3 nursery schools
2 primary schools
Sports facilities
31 in the village
Connectivity
Fibre in 95% of homes
4G in 100%
5G in 100%

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  • Fibre broadband· of homes95 %
  • 4G mobile coverage· of homes100 %
  • 5G coverage· of homes100 %

No data on: train station, post office, EV chargers, street market, 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. Completed with Overture Maps (CDLA-Permissive-2.0): the pharmacies, health centres, petrol stations, banks, cash machines, food shops and schools that OpenStreetMap was missing. Connectivity: Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation, % of homes covered in June 2025.

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Cost of living

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Cost of living in Jerez de los Caballeros, with the source of each figure
Renting a flat (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for Jerez de los Caballeros · 177 leases€303/month
Renting a house (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for Jerez de los Caballeros€300/month
Buying a home (appraised value)MIVAU, appraised value of private housing · Q2 2026 · figure for the province of Badajoz€1,029/m²
Average net household incomeINE, Income Distribution Atlas · 2023 · figure for Jerez de los Caballeros€29,933/year
Petrol 95Ministry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 4 petrol stations within 10 km€1.872/litre
DieselMinistry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 4 petrol stations within 10 km€1.922/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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