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Flag of Valle de Tobalina - Image by Jose Antonio Jiménez, 25 May 2011
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The municipality of Valle de Tobalina (1,026 inhabitants in 2010;
15,749 ha; municipal website) is located in the northeast of Burgos Province, 80 km of Burgos.
The municipality is made of the villages of Barcina del Barco (76
inh.), Bascuñuelos (32 inh.), Comenzana (5 inh.), Cuezva (14 inh.),
Gabanes (13 inh.), Garoña (16 inh.), Herrán (14 inh.), Hedeso (8 inh.), Imaña (deserted), Leciñana de Tobalina (23 inh.), Lomana (15 inh.), Lozares de Tobalina (23 inh.), Mijaraluenga (5 inh.), Montejo de Cebas (48 inh.), Montejo de San Miguel (22 inh.), Orbañanos (8 inh.), La Orden (8 inh.), Pajares (11 inh.), Pangusión (38 inh.), Paryuelo (deserted), Pedrosa de Tobalina (134 inh.), Plágaro (deserted), La Prada (25 inh.), Quintana María (51 inh.), Quintana Martín Galíndez (338 inh.; capital), Ranedo-Promediano (12 inh.), La Revilla de Herrán (13 inh.), Rufrancos (8 inh.), San Martín de Don (43 inh.), Santa María de Garoña (23 inh.), Santocildes (10 inh.), Tobalinilla (4 inh.), Valujera (11 inh.), Las Viadas (6 inh.), Villaescusa (4 inh.), and Villanueva del Grillo (deserted).
The municipal territory is made of two non adjacent parts, La Orden,
Pedrosa de Tobalina and Valujera forming an exclave located north-west
of the "main" component of the municipality.
The Valle de Tobalina villages were incorporated in the 13th century
into the municipality of Frías. In 1834, the Tobalina Valley was
divided into the two municipalities of Valle de Tobalina and Partido de la Sierra en Tobalina.
Quintana Martín Galíndez, the capital of the municipality, is name after its resettler or a later lord; the village is listed in the
Becerro de las Behetrías (14th century) as Quintana Martín Galmudez.
García Salazar's tower recalls the local war that opposed in the 15th century the Salazar to the Velasco.
Herrán must be the oldest settlement in the municipality; the village developed around the San Martín de Herrán monastery, founded in 852, today ruined.
Ivan Sache, 25 May 2011
The flag (photo, Town Hall) and arms of Valle de Tobalina, adopted on 16 October 1986 by the Municipal Council, are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 22 April 1988 by the Government of Castile and León, and published on 2 May 1988 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 83 (text).
The Decree states that the Royal Academy of History recommended
modifications to the proposed coat of arms and flags, which were
partially accounted for by the Municipal Council.
The symbols are, unfortunately, not described in the Decree.
Ivan Sache, 25 May 2011
