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Velilla del Río Carrión (or simply Velilla) is a town and municipality located in Montaña Palentina of the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2023 INE census, the municipality has a population of 1,145 inhabitants, the majority of whom live in the town of Velilla itself.
The village straddles either side of the Carrión river, a tributary of the Pisuerga and eventually the Duero. It is only 5 kilometres upstream from Guardo, the largest town in the region. Velilla's town centre is overlooked by two prominent mountains: Peña Lampa (1804m, which forms the provincial border between Palencia and León) and the Peña Mayor de Velilla (1869m) in the adjacent Sierra de Brezo.
The wider municipality comprises a geographically large and mountainous area of the far north of Palencia province, incorporating the isolated villages of Otero de Guardo, Alba de los Cardaños, Camporredondo de Alba, Cardaño de Abajo and Cardaño de Arriba. The main landmarks in the area are Espigüete (2450m), the most emblematic mountain in the area, and Pico Murcia (2431m) a nearby pyramid-shaped peak. The town of Velilla (along with Cervera de Pisuerga) is the starting point of the Ruta de los Pantanos or 'Reservoirs Route', a route which follows the P-210 through the Palentine mountains alongside the Compuerto and Camporredondo reservoirs (inaugurated in 1960 and 1930 respectively).
The Cantabri, a pre-Roman tribal federation who lived in northern Iberia in the second half of the first millennium BCE, were the area's first inhabitants and possibly constructed the town's famous Fontes Tamarici.
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Las Fuentes Tamáricas (en latín, Fontes Tamarici) son tres fuentes próximas ubicadas por el geógrafo e historiador romano Plinio el Viejo en la Cantabria clásica, y que desde el siglo XVIII se han identificado con la fuente de La Reana, en Velilla del Río Carrión (Palencia), España.
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La Central térmica de Velilla era una instalación termoeléctrica de ciclo convencional situada junto al río Carrión, en el término municipal de Velilla del Río Carrión (Palencia, España). Constaba de 2 grupos térmicos de 350 y 148 MW.
Central eléctrica de carbónElemento de la Lista Roja del Patrimonio
La Necrópolis de Velilla del Río Carrión fue descubierta en febrero de 1962 en la localidad homónima de la provincia de Palencia, en España.
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