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Alfamén

municipality of Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1644868 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alfamén is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2016 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,466 inhabitants Its demonym is vena. This town is reputed for its Melons and watermelons.

There are ruins of an ancient Iberian settlement in the Cabezo de Altomira hill, located about 4 km NE of the town.

See also

Campo de Cariñena

List of municipalities in Zaragoza

References

External links

Ayuntamiento de Alfamén - Alfamén

Cabezo Altomira.

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“Alfamén” enters the record as municipality of Spain. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alfamén, municipality and Spain can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alfamén, municipality and Spain.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1644868. Authority coordinates are 41.438, -1.243. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alfamén” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.