Camaleño

Camaleño is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2007 census, the city had 1,096 inhabitants.

Camaleño
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Camaleño
Camaleño Location within Cantabria Camaleño Camaleño (Spain)
Coordinates: 43°9′7″N 4°41′32″W
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Cantabria
Province	Cantabria
Comarca	Liébana
Judicial district	San Vicente de la Barquera
Capital	Camaleño
Government
• Alcalde	Óscar Casares Alonso (2015) (PRC)
Area
• Total	161.1 km2 (62.2 sq mi)
Elevation	400 m (1,300 ft)
Population  (2018)
• Total	946
• Density	5.9/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	Official website

History

According to the chronicle of Alfonso III of Leon, the surviving Arabs of the Battle of Covadonga (722) succumbed in Cosgaya, a village belonging to Camaleño under an avalanche of stones. In this valley the second Asturian king Favila of Asturias died 739, killed by a bear. At that time there was already a monastery in Turieno, dedicated to San Martín, where a large reliquary of the Cross of Christ and the body of Santo Toribio, who apparently brought it from Palestine, was kept. Over the years, it became a center of pilgrimage, with the privilege of recognition by different popes. The monastery came under the Oña in the twelfth century, and the process of seigneurization subjected the valley to the jurisdiction of the Marquises of Santillana and Duke of Infantado.

Camaleño belonged to the judicial district of Potes until the late 1970s, then it became part of San Vicente de la Barquera.

See also

• Pico Jano

External links

• Camaleño - Cantabria 102 Municipios

Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana in Camaleño.

Aerial tramway of Fuente Dé, Camaleño.

Fuente Dé, in the Picos de Europa.