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Cubillo del Campo

human settlement in Burgos Province, Castile and León, Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1765331 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cubillo del Campo is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain.

Geography

Cubillo del Campo is a Spanish town located in the province of Burgos. The distance between Burgos and this town is about 22 km (13.7 mi). According to the 2021 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 102 inhabitants, and an area of 14.06 km2 (5.43 sq mi).

Demographics

Economy

Cubillo's population has always been dedicated to the agriculture, ranching and the extraction of stone in quarries. From these quarries, the stone of the Burgos Cathedral, among other monuments, were extracted. Within the municipality there are also two gravel extraction plants and a poultry farm, located inside an old military camp.

Tourism

Cubillo del Campo is crossed by the national road N-234, which connects Sagunto (province of Valencia) and Sarracín (province of Burgos). This road is locally known as Soria's road. Many rural hiking routes cross this town, such as the Ruta del Buen Conde and the Ruta del Cid.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cubillo del Campo” as human settlement in Burgos Province, Castile and León, Spain. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cubillo, Campo and human can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as human settlement in Burgos Province, Castile and León, Spain. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1765331. Authority coordinates are 42.168, -3.610. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cubillo del Campo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cubillo del Campo primary sources, Cubillo del Campo archive and Cubillo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cubillo del Campo”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Cubillo del Campo” 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.