Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Navarre
- Merindad
- Estella
- Mayor
- Juan Luis Pérez Leuza
- Total
- 12.81 km (4.95 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 459 m (1,506 ft)
- Density
- 9.06/km (23.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Official language s
- Basque, Spanish
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Torres del Río
- Demonym
- torrestar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Estella Occidental
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 198
- Area
- 12.81
- Elevation
- 459
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Mendavia
- Image
- Torres del rio.jpg
- Licence plate code
- NA
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- Commons category
- Torres del Río
- postal code
- 31229
- native label
- Dorreaga, Dorreta
- P8168
- El Carmen
- male population
- 62
- female population
- 64
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Encyclopedic overview
Torres del Río is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
This town is located by the Linares River opposite Sansol. It is known for its Templar octagonal Romanesque church, formally related to those of Segovia (la Veracruz) and Eunate. The town was conquered from the Muslim occupation in 914 AD and belonged to the Monastery of Irache for several centuries before the citizens of the town bought the monastery out in the 14th century.) It is along The French Way (Spanish: Camino Francés) of the Camino de Santiago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torres del Río” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.