She is one of the nine provinces that conform Castile and Leon. Its capital is the city of Salamanca. It limits the north with the provinces of Zamora, the northeast with Valladolid, the east with the province of Ávila, the south with the one of Cáceres and to the west with Portugal. Its geographic extension is of 12,336 km², which turns the third province of Castile and Leon after Leon and Towns. The average altitude of the province is of 830 ms on the level of the sea. The climate is of continental type, with invier cold and dry and warm summers to us. The average temperature is of 3'7ºC in January (being able to lower, in snow-covered days of forts, to several degrees below cero). In summer the average temperature is of 24'2ºC, although 35º or 40ºC can raise until. At the moment (INE 2005), the province has 352,414 inhabitants, on who 160,331 (a 45%) live in the capital, Salamanca, located to borders of the Tormes river. There are 362 municipalities in the province, of which more than half they have an inferior population to the three hundred inhabitants (it is the second Spanish province with respect to the number of municipalities, behind Towns). The municipalities more populating with the province are, aside from the capital, Béjar, Rodrigo City, Santa Marta de Tormes, Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Guijuelo, Alba_de_Tormes and, Vitigudino. It is divided in five judicial parties: Béjar, Rodrigo City, Peñaranda, Salamanca and Vitigudino. An official local division does not exist, but some of the historical regions are: Charro field, You arrive of the Duero, City Rodrigo-Mountain range of Cat, Mountain range of Salamanca (Mountain ranges of France and Bejar), the Armuña, Condados and Ducados.