List of municipalities in Ávila
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Ávila is a province in the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. The province is divided into 248 municipalities. Template:As of Spanish census, Ávila is the 46th most populous of Spain's 50 provinces, with Template:Nts inhabitants,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the 15th largest by land area, spanning Template:Convert.<ref name="landarea"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Municipalities are the most basic local political division in SpainTemplate:Sfn and can only belong to one province.Template:Sfn They enjoy a large degree of autonomy in their local administration, being in charge of tasks such as urban planning, water supply, lighting, roads, local police, and firefighting.Template:Sfn
The organisation of municipalities in Spain is outlined by the local government law Ley 7/1985, de 2 de abril, Reguladora de las Bases del Régimen Local (Template:Translation), which was passed by the Cortes Generales—Spain’s national parliament—on 2 April 1985Template:Sfn and finalised by royal decree on 18 April 1986.Template:Sfn Municipalities in Ávila are also governed by the Template:Ill, which includes provisions concerning their relations with Castile and León's autonomous government.Template:Sfn All citizens of Spain are required to register in the municipality in which they reside.Template:Sfn Each municipality is a corporationTemplate:Refn with independent legal personhood: its governing body is called the ayuntamiento (municipal council or corporation),Template:Sfn a term often also used to refer to the municipal offices (city and town halls). The ayuntamiento is composed of the mayor (Template:Langx), the deputy mayors (tenientes de alcalde) and the councillors (concejales), who form the plenary (pleno), the deliberative body.Template:Sfn Municipalities are categorised by population for determining the number of councillors: three when the population is up to 100 inhabitants, five for 101Template:Ndash250, seven for 251Template:Ndash1,000, nine for 1,001Template:Ndash2,000, eleven for 2,001Template:Ndash5,000, thirteen for 5,001Template:Ndash10,000, seventeen for 10,001Template:Ndash20,000, twenty-one for 20,001Template:Ndash50,000, and twenty-five for 50,001Template:Ndash100,000.Template:Sfn
The mayor and the deputy mayors are elected by the plenary assembly, which is itself elected by universal suffrage.Template:Sfn Elections in municipalities with more than 250 inhabitants are carried out following a proportional representation system with closed lists,Template:Sfn whilst those with a population lower than 250 use a block plurality voting system with open lists.Template:Sfn The plenary assembly must meet periodically, with meetings occurring more or less frequently depending on the population of the municipality: monthly for those whose population is larger than 20,000, once every two months if it ranges between 5,001 and 20,000, and once every three months if it does not exceed 5,000.Template:Sfn Many ayuntamientos also have a local governing board (Template:Langx), which is appointed by the mayor from amongst the councillors and is required for municipalities of over 5,000 inhabitants.Template:Sfn The board, whose role is to assist the mayor between meetings of the plenary assembly, may not include more than one third of the councillors.Template:Sfn
The municipalities within the province of Ávila are in turn grouped into comarcas.<ref name="comarcas"/> The largest municipality by population in the province as of the 2024 Spanish census is Ávila, its capital, with 59,119 residents, while the smallest is Blasconuño de Matacabras, with 14 residents.<ref name="census2024"/> The largest municipality by area is also Ávila, which spans Template:Convert, while Poyales del Hoyo is the smallest at Template:Convert.<ref name="landarea"/>
Municipalities
- Largest municipalities in the province of Ávila by population
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Ávila is the province's capital and largest municipality by population.
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Arévalo, the second largest municipality by population in the province of Ávila
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Arenas de San Pedro is the province's third largest municipality by population.
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Las Navas del Marqués, Ávila's fourth largest municipality by population
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