Spanish province that comprised of the Kingdom of Leon and Corona of Castile. Its capital is Zamora. At the present time it is included in the Independent Community of Castile and Leon. Geography The territory of the province of Zamora includes 10,559 km² and has 198,028 inhabitants (2005). One is a strongly aged population and in clear demographic regression. Their main population centers are the capital of the province, Benavente and Toro. Other localities, heads of judicial party along with the previous ones, are: Villalpando, Puebla de Sanabria and Alcañices. The natural regions of the province are: Sanabria, the Carballeda, Benavente and the Valleys, Land of Fields, Land of the Bread, Land of Vino, Toro and his alfoz, the Guareña, Lists, Sayago and Tierra de Alba.
The province limits the north with the province of Leon, the east with the one of Valladolid, to the south with the one of Salamanca and to the west with the one of Orense and with Portugal. Included/understood in the North subplateau, its territory presents/displays numerous resistances. It emphasizes a mountainous zone to the N, leaves from Montes of Leon, with heights that arrive at the 2,127 ms (Trevinca Rock). In the western zone of the province, the Mountain range of the Snake registers heights of until 1.243m (Rock Sight) and welcomes in its sine the National Reserve of Hunting of its same name, with important populations of Iberian wolf (most important of the peninsula), red deers and wild boars, among others. To UNDER of the province the Duero river it runs boxed in a throat denominated The Arribes of the Duero with unevennesses of up to 200 ms, constituting a natural border with Portugal. The zone center, and and S presents the typical plain meseteña. The provincial hydrography strongly is marked by the Duero, that crosses it of and to Or, and its affluents: Valderaduey, Esla, Órbigo, Tera, Cea, List, Guareña, Tormes.
The exception constitutes the Bibey river, affluent of the Sil, that runs by the noroccidental zone of the province. The waters of the Duero, the Tera, the Esla, the Bibey and the Tormes have been dammed throughout their course by the province for hydroelectric advantage, being the dams of greater capacity the one of Almond in the Tormes and the one of Ricobayo in the Esla. Of particular interest they are the Lake of Sanabria, greater of the origin peninsula the glacier and the Lagoons of Villafáfila, of estepario character, with important concentrations of birds at certain times of the year.