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Serena dividing the two areas in a north-south rise the mountains of Benquerencia, shots and Almorchón. His step is only feasible through the ports Mejoral and Nava, who since time immemorial communications channel between the Plateau and Serena pastures as a way for cattle forced the Mesta. This circumstance gave the area a strategic and economic importance very prominent from ancient times, justifying the appearance of fortifications for its defense and enclaves to control the passage of livestock and goods. For the northern routes are aligned through the bridges Villarta of Forestry and Chapel-Peñalsordo and Alcozarejo port, and south of Puerto Hurraco.
From Benquerencia depend Ferny site and the villages of La Nava and Puerto Hurraco.Elmas next is La Nava, small enclave of two hundred inhabitants not to be confused with the Puerto de La Nava, the Cabeza del Buey immediately. Next, also on the road, is Helechal, superior core entity with its five hundred inhabitants. Between the two cores mentioned Puerto Mejoral opens wide gap that is the only way through both sides of the mountains.
Puerto Hurraco is about noon, in turn constitute the only practicable way through the Sierra del Oro, which is a few miles south, between Benquerencia, Asparagus and Zalamea. Set on a hill, the settlement consists of little more than a hundred houses and a single street of considerable amplitude.
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Extremadura (Estremaura in Extremadura and the fala). It is a Spanish autonomous community located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is composed of the two largest provinces in Spain: Cáceres yBadajoz. Extremadura bounded on the north by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila (Castilla y León), south conHuelva, Sevilla and Cordoba (Andalusia), on the east, with Toledo and Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha) and west conPortugal. Its capital is Mérida (Augusta Emerita old), the city recognized by the Statute of Autonomy as the seat of the Government of Extremadura.
