Frailes

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Frailes

Total population

1,364

WeatherAvg high 68.7°F

Coordinates37.49°, -3.84°

Demographic figures from INE (Spain). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Frailes is a municipality in the Spanish province of Jaén, autonomous community of Andalucia, with a total area of 41.37 km2, a population of 1551 inhabitants in 2024 and a population density of 43.41 inhab/ km2. It was immortalised by the British writer, Michael Jacobs, in his 2003 book, The Factory of Light.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

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Amparo Sánchez

Spanish singer and guitarist

Antonio Ceballos Atienza

Spanish bishop (1935–2022)

Juan Martínez Montañés

Spanish artist (1568-1649)

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Ibn Said al-Maghribi

Arab geographer, historian and poet (1213–1286)

José Castillo

Spanish police officer (1901-1936)

Alonso Verdugo, 3rd Count of Torrepalma

Spanish noble (1706-1767)

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Alfonso de Alcalá

Spanish Hebraist

Antonio Ávila

Spanish politician

Baldomero Sánchez-Cuenca y Mudarra

Emilio Mesejo

Spanish actor and singer

M

Manuel Urbano Pérez Ortega

Spanish writer

Prudencio Mudarra y Párraga

R

Rafael Revelles

Spanish painter

R

Remigio del Mármol

Spanish sculptor (1758-1815)

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Víctor Bolívar Galiano

Spanish writer

Roko

Spanish musician and actress

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Andalusia

• Valdepeñas de Jaén
  7.2 mi away · pop. 3,397
• Montillana
  9.1 mi away · pop. 819
• Benalúa de las Villas
  9.3 mi away · pop. 1,021
• Moclín
  10.5 mi away · pop. 232
• Colomera
  10.7 mi away · pop. 1,077
• Fuensanta de Martos
  11.7 mi away · pop. 2,748
• Campotéjar
  12.1 mi away · pop. 1,195
• Íllora
  13.9 mi away · pop. 4,891
• Montefrío
  14.9 mi away · pop. 3,944
• Dehesas Viejas
  15.7 mi away · pop. 635
• Pinos Puente
  17 mi away · pop. 6,877
• Fuente-Tójar
  17 mi away · pop. 636

Browse all places in Andalusia →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Frailes

Pepita Jimenez - 67

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano · 1874

Romances y canciones en la tradición andaluza

Enrique Jesús Rodríguez Baltanás · 1999

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