Ponferrada hosted the 2014 UCI Road World Championships from 21 to 28 September 2014. [35], This ordination is still in the implementation phase, and in September 2015 the draft map dividing the autonomous community was presented in 147 rural UBOST and 15 urban UBOST.[36]. This resistance of Visigoth-Roman heritage, supported by Christianity, was becoming increasingly strong and expanding to the south, eventually establishing its court in the city of Len, becoming the Kingdom of Len. However, in absolute terms the autonomous community is losing population and aging. In the Salamancan comarca of El Rebollar, a modality of Extremaduran language is spoken (of the Asturian-Leonese branch)[27] known as Palra d'El Rebollal. The fields of Castile and Leon are arid and dry although very fertile, predominating in them the dryland farming. At the beginning of the Mesozoic Era, once the Hercynian folding that raised the current Central Europe and the Gallaeci zone of Spain, the deposited materials were dragged by the erosive action of the rivers. Bulletin: 55/1991. netextender email address may be configured wrong. Several archaeological findings show that in prehistoric times these lands were already inhabited. Andrew Oberg - Amazon.com It includes the restored building and equipment of Compostilla I, Spain's first coal-fueled power plant opened in 1949 in Ponferrada. McGuffey School District is a public school system located in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The modern name of the city derives from the iron reinforcements added to the ancient bridge over the river Sil (Latin pons for "bridge" and ferrata for "iron"), commissioned in 1082[3] by Bishop Osmundo of Astorga to facilitate the crossing of the Sil River to pilgrims in their way to Santiago de Compostela. During the 1960s and 1980s, large urban centers and provincial capitals suffered a slight demographic increase due to a thorough urbanization process, although, despite this, the Castilian-Leonese area continues to suffer serious depopulation. In that year, 59 children under the age of one year died. Among the least populated are, between others: Jaramillo Quemado (Burgos), with 4 inhabitants, Estepa de San Juan (Soria), with 7, Quionera (Soria), with 8 and Villanueva de Gormaz (Soria), with 9. Castile and Len is the largest autonomous community in Spain in terms of area, covering 94,222km2.