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Municipality
Cójobar
Cojóbar is a small locality in Burgos currently home to around 190 inhabitants. Administratively, it is considered part of Modúbar de la Emparedada. Cojóbar is located in a pleasant natural setting just 12 km from Burgos. For centuries it was part of the territory belonging to the Marquisate of Lazán. The River Los Ausines flows nearby, fed by the streams and springs that meander through this area in the centre of the province of Burgos. One of its unique features is that, unlike the depopulation of other rural towns in Spain, Cojóbar has continued to see population growth over the last 15 years.
The Cojóbar economy has historically been based on agriculture and livestock farming. In fact, the tradition of trades related to livestock farming here dates way back, for centuries part of the so-called Ruta de la Lana (Wool Route), a route travelled year after year by shearers, traders and shepherds. This route linked the trade in wool and its derivatives between areas of Levante and La Mancha with the province of Burgos, the unquestionable commercial capital of the trade in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a route of great beauty and value, boasting incredible nature and heritage attractions, intersecting also with other great pilgrimage routes like the Route of El Cid.
The village was also once a stop on the route of the failed Santander-Mediterranean railway, intended to link the Cantabrian coast with the port of Sagunto but was never completed.
Among its architectural heritage, the Parish Church of San Cristóbal, patron saint of the village, is particularly noteworthy. It is in honour of this saint that the inhabitants of Cojóbar celebrate their patron saint's festivities every 10 July.
