You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (August 2011) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Spanish article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at :es:Ahigal (Cáceres); see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Ahigal (Cáceres)}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Ahigal
Municipality
Seal
Location of Ahigal in the Cáceres province.
Country	ESP
Province	Cáceres
Autonomous communities of Spain	Extremadura
Region	Tierras de Granadilla
Government
• Mayor	Luis Fernando García Nicolás
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	1,401
Postal code	10650
Website	http://www.ahigal.es

Ahigal is a municipality in the province of Cáceres and autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 52.07 square kilometres (20.10 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 1435 people.^[2]

Toponymedit

The origin of the series of place names "Ahigal" is a place name created from a plant. Figal is used as a surname in Asturias: the figal is the fig tree; many variations still exist such as La Figar, La Figal or Figares in Asturian place names. Like in Latin, the feminine gender of the tree name is maintained.

Geographical limitsedit

Ahigal is bordered by:

• Cerezo to the north;
• Guijo de Granadilla to the east;
• Oliva de Plasencia to the south-east;
• Valdeobispo to the south-west;
• Santibáñez el Bajo to the west.

Historyedit

At the fall of the old regime the area was formed into a constitutional municipality in the Extremadura region, judicial district of Granadilla, then known as Aigal, which, in the census of 1842, had 250 homes and 1370 residents

Referencesedit

40°11′N 6°11′W / 40.183°N 6.183°W / 40.183; -6.183

This article about a location in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e