Chercos

Chercos is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The original village (Chercos Viejo) lies about three kilometres south of modern-day Chercos (Chercos Nuevo), clinging to the side of the Sierra de los Filabres.

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Settlement.official_name: Chercos, Spain
Settlement.image_skyline: Alm04Chercos.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Chercos
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Chercos Spain.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Escudo de Chercos.svg
Settlement.flag_size: 150
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Spain
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Community
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Andalusia
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Almería
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: José Antonio Torres Sáez
Settlement.leader_party: PP
Settlement.area_total_km2: 14
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.timezone: CET

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Chercos
Population: 301
Area: 14
Elevation: 805
Official website: www.chercos.es
Image: Chercosnuevo.jpg
Licence plate code: AL

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Commons category: Chercos
female population: 136
male population: 142
postal code: 04859
P8168: Maurice Galbraith Cullen

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Antonio Sáez Sáez became mayor of Chercos in the 1940s and was the principal architect behind the plan to move the old town of Chercos a few kilometres away, off the isolated mountainside and onto one of the few flat spots in the Sierra de los Filabres. Chercos was by then a mere shadow of what it had once been. By the 1940s it was a village inhabited by an ever-shrinking population consisting of small landowners.