Valladolid is a province of Castile and Leon, Spain. Km2 has an extension of 8,202. Its capital is Valladolid. It has a population of 513,712 inhabitants (according to 2005 data), distributed in 255 municipalities. It limits: to the N with the province of Palencia, to the E with the province of Towns, to with the province of Segovia, to the S with the province of Ávila, to UNDER with the province of Salamanca, to Or with the province of Zamora and to NOT with the province of Leon. It has a small enclave between the provinces of Leon and Zamora It has a small enclave in the province of Leon Valladolid continues its growth with the arrival from the democracy to Spain. With the first democratic municipal elections (1979) the Socialists arrive at the mayorship (the Tomás Socialist Rodriguez Bolaños stays like mayor from 1979 to 1995, year in which the Popular Party overcomes the elections, staying in the mayorship to today with the mayor Francisco Javier Leon of the Riva). In the Eighties new residential districts arise (like Parquesol) that cause a growth of the city in their extension.
The city becomes seat of the basic institutions of the Independent Community of Castile and Leon in 1987: Cuts of Castile and Leon and Junta of Castile and Leon (with the presidency), which is compared habitually with the capitalidad of the community. Valladolid overflows its own limits and jumps to municipalities of the surroundings. This urban transformation has been defined by the emérito university professor of urban Geography Jesus Garci'a like the step "from the city to the agglomeration". Climate Climograma de ValladolidEl climate of Valladolid is Mediterranean continental. Probably the old one will refrán Castilian ' Nine months of winter and three of infiernó characterize it perfectly. The temperatures are fresh, with an annual average of 12,3° and to invier cold with frequent fog and frosts to us (61 days of average frosts), although are infrequent the great ones snowed by the particular geographic situation of the city. The summers are generally warm and dry, with principles around 30°, but minimum fresh. The records of temperatures are 40,2° of the 19 of 1995 July and -11,5° of the 14 of February of 1983. In the observatory of Villanubla the temperatures are lower. The precipitations, although little, when being in the most barren zone of the North Plateau, are distributed of regular enough form throughout the year, although there is a minimum accused in summer and another one in March. To the year there are 2,534 hours of sun and 71 days of rain.