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San Juan de Gredos

municipality of Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1632850 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Juan de Gredos is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain.

The municipality is formed of three independent hamlets: Navacepeda de Tormes, San Bartolomé de Tormes and La Herguijuela.

In the locality of Navacepeda de Tormes an ancient brown bear claw is found embedded at the church porch.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “San Juan de Gredos” as municipality of 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 54-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 Juan, Gredos and municipality can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality of Spain. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1632850. VIAF identifies the subject as 1184153954865205680004. Authority coordinates are 40.356, -5.242. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “San Juan de Gredos” 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.