San Martín del Tesorillo is a municipality located in the province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It was constituted as an independent municipality from Jimena de la Frontera on 2 October 2018.
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  San Martín del Tesorillo Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 36°20′39″N 5°19′13″W / 36.34417°N 5.32028°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  Andalusia |
| Province | Cádiz |
| Comarca | Campo de Gibraltar |
| Judicial district | San Roque |
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| • Alcalde | Jesús Fernández Rey |
| Area | |
• Total | 48.57 km2 (18.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | Official website |
History
editThe first agricultural colony was founded by Martín Larios y Larios, son of Martín Larios Herreros, the first Marquess of Larios,[2] and president of the Guadiaro Industrial and Agricultural Society. This company, together with the Larios de Gibraltar Society, created several agricultural colonies in the Campo de Gibraltar area, among them San Martín del Tesorillo, which was dedicated to the cultivation and transformation of wheat; San Pablo de Buceite, dedicated to the cultivation and transformation of olive oil; and San Luis de Sabinillas, with sugar production.[3] These foundations were produced after buying large estates from the House of Medina Sidonia in 1869. In the 1930s, the famous Majorcan smuggler and landowner, Juan March, bought the latifundios to the Larios family and divided them into plots, putting them up for sale to farmers in other areas of Andalusia and Valencia. The presence of settlers from Jimena and other municipalities in the Campo de Gibraltar was scarce, it seems, due to the misgivings that this landowner produced in the region.[4]
Although San Martín del Tesorillo was declared an agricultural colony in 1879, its consolidation as a population center began in the 1930s after its division into parcels and the arrival of settlers. The recognition of municipal autonomy and its jurisdictional term, of 4857 hectares, was approved by Decree of the Junta de Andalucía on 24 April 1999 under the figure of an Autonomous Local Entity. Since 1999, its City Council had a series of its own powers and others delegated by the Jimena de la Frontera city council and rights over the income and debts generated in its jurisdictional term.[5] In 2018, San Martín del Tesorillo was separated from the city council of Jimena de la Frontera and since October 3 of that year is officially a new municipality.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Spain: San Martín del Tesorillo". City Population. 22 January 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Ayuntamiento de San Roque (ed.). "Los Larios en Andalucía y en el Campo de Gibraltar I". Retrieved 20 February 2009.
- ^ Ayuntamiento de San Roque (ed.). "Los Larios en Andalucía y en el Campo de Gibraltar II". Retrieved 20 February 2009.
- ^ Ayuntamiento de Jimena de la Frontera (ed.). "Reseña histórica". Retrieved 14 March 2009.
- ^ Junta de Andalucía (ed.). "B.O.J.A. Decreto 94/1999, de 20 de abril, por el que se crea la Entidad Local Autónoma San Martín del Tesorillo, en el municipio de Jimena de la Frontera" (PDF). Retrieved 20 February 2009.
- ^ Jerez, Diario de. "Tesorillo, municipio independiente" (in Spanish). Diario de Jerez. Retrieved 2 October 2018.