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The municipality of Urueñas (105 inhabitants in 2010; 3,287 ha) is located in the north-east of Segovia Province, 70 km from Segovia.
Urueñas seems to have been resettled by colonists from Urueña (Valladolid Province), then the seat of a big fortress. The name of the two villages probably comes from a pre-Roman toponym meaning "underground water", ur meaning "water" in Basque. In the Middle Ages, the village belonged to the Community of the Village and Land of Sepúlveda. Urueñas was described by Camilo José Cela in his book Judíos, Moros y Cristianos (1956).
Ivan Sache, 13 May 2011
The flag and arms of Urueñas are prescribed by a Decree adopted on 20
September 1994 by the Segovia Provincial Government, signed on 26 September 1994 by the
President of the Government, and published on 6
October 1994 in the official gazette of Castile and León, No. 194 (text).
The symbols are described
as follows:
Flag: Quadrangular flag, yellow, with three blue wavy fesses.
Coat of arms: Quarterly, 1. Azure a bell-gable argent, 2. Or an oak eradicated vert, 3. Or an ewe argent on rocks, 4. Argent wavy azure. The shield surmounted with a Royal Spanish crown. Per pale (?).
The symbols were designed by Manuel María Rodriguez de Maribona y Dávila, Treasurer of the Royal Academy of Heraldry and Genealogy. The quarters of the shield represent the parish church, the woods, the Community of the Village and Land of Sepúlveda, and water for which the village is named.
Ivan Sache, 13 May 2011