Palencia is a Spanish province pertaining to the independent community of Castile and Leon, to the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is the city of Palencia. Other important localities of this province are: I keep, industrialist-mining villa, the most populated after the capital. Aguilar de Campoo, galletera and tourist villa of the palentino north and Sale of Baths, important railway junction and industrial to the south of the province. It limits the north with Cantabria, the west with the province of Leon, the east with the province of Towns and the south with the province of Valladolid. Palencia is a Spanish city in the community of Castile and Leon, capital of the province of the same name located in the Land plain of Fields, in the border of the Carrión river. Located to 749 ms of altitude, dista 235 km of Madrid and in 2005 had 81,439 inhabitants on a 94.71 extension of km². Its inner character, separated from all marine influence, determines that the climate is continental, with an ample thermal oscillation. The average temperature of January is of 3,3ºC and the one of July of 21ºC, but it is arrived at absolute minims from until 14º below cero and two months of frosts; in Summer they are gotten to reach to 42º of Temperature. The annual precipitations are little with an average of 414.2 mm, a maximum primaveral and a summery minimum. The cleared days are 85 like annual average. It has the greater landscaped surface of Castile and Leon in relation to the surface that occupies and is one of the greater ones of Europe. The municipal term of Palencia also includes/understands the locality of Mount Walls..
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