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El Pino de Tormes

municipality in Salamanca, Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ1769953 ↗
Source-derived summary

El Pino de Tormes is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 19 kilometres (12 mi) from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 157 people.

Geography

The municipality covers an area of 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi).

It lies 770 metres (2,530 ft) above sea level and the postal code is 37170.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “El Pino de Tormes” as municipality in Salamanca, Spain. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 71-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pino, Tormes and municipality can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality in Salamanca, Spain. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1769953. Authority coordinates are 41.040, -5.793. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “El Pino de Tormes” 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.