Mocejón

Municipality in Castilla–La Mancha, Spain

Coat of arms

39°56′13″N 3°55′10″W / 39.93694°N 3.91944°W / 39.93694; -3.91944CountrySpainAutonomous community Castilla–La ManchaProvinceToledoArea

• Total30 km² (10 sq mi)Elevation

480 m (1,570 ft)Population

(2018)^[1]

• Total4,829 • Density160/km² (420/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Mocejón is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 4,963 inhabitants. It belongs to the region of La Sagra. It stands at about 480 metres above mean sea level.^[2]

By 1166, the hamlet of Mocejón was donated by Alfonso VIII to the knight Pedro Rodríguez de Azagra.^[3]

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ Rodríguez Rodríguez, Vicente (1983). Notas sobre la historia y geografía de La Sagra (PDF). Toledo: Diputación Provincial. p. 7. ISBN 84-00-05384-2.
^ Molero García, Jesús M. (1998). "La frontera castellana en tiempos de Alfonso VII: nobleza y organización del espacio" (PDF). II Estudios de frontera. Actividad y vida en la frontera. En memoria de Don Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz. Alcalá la Real, 1997. p. 598.