El Mirón

El Mirón
Municipality
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Coordinates: 40°31′55″N 5°24′19″W
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Ávila
Municipality	El Mirón
Area
• Total	31.08 km^2 (12.00 sq mi)
Elevation	1,265 m (4,150 ft)
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	124
• Density	4.0/km^2 (10/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	Official website

El Mirón is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 198 inhabitants. The number increased to 207 in 2012.^[2]

The name came into attention upon the discovery an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) skeleton in 2015 from the El Mirón Cave. The skeleton was that of a woman and is coated with ochre (a red pigment), hence she is nicknamed The Red Lady of El Mirón.^[3] The woman is about 35 to 40 years of age, and was buried around 18,700 years ago.^[4][5]

References

1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. "Population of El Mirón, Spain". mongabay. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
3. Straus, Lawrence G.; González Morales, Manuel R.; Carretero, Jose Miguel; Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belen (2015). ""The Red Lady of El Mirón". Lower Magdalenian life and death in Oldest Dryas Cantabrian Spain: an overview". Journal of Archaeological Science. 60 (1): 134–137. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.034.
4. González Morales, Manuel R.; Straus, Lawrence G. (2015). "Magdalenian-age graphic activity associated with the El Mirón Cave human burial". Journal of Archaeological Science. 60 (1): 125–133. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.025.
5. Weiss, Daniel (11 August 2015). "The Red Lady of El Mirón". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 27 July 2016.