# Torres

> municipality of the province of Jáen, Spain

**Wikidata**: [Q1657562](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1657562)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres,_Jaén)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/torres-q1657562-2

## Summary
Torres is a municipality in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, in southern Spain, administratively part of the Sierra Mágina comarca. It is located at latitude 37.786111111111 and longitude -3.51 and is represented online at https://aytorres.es.

## Key Facts
- Torres is a municipality of the province of Jaén, Spain (Wikidata description: "municipality of the province of Jáen, Spain").
- Geographic coordinates: latitude 37.786111111111, longitude -3.51.
- Official municipal website: https://aytorres.es.
- Population (series of recorded values): 1592.0, 1619.0, 1643.0, 1656.0, 1663.0, 1645.0, 1665.0, 1682.0, 1725.0, 1769.0, 1797.0, 1773.0, 1558.0, 1516.0, 1513.0, 1475.0, 1434.0, 1406.0, 1372.0, 1350.0, 1360.0, 1349.0, 1343.0, 1328.0.
- Administrative classification: municipality (an administrative territorial entity of Spain; the general municipal category has an inception date +1842-00-00).
- Parent administrative units: Jaén Province (province of Spain; inception +1833-00-00) and the comarca Sierra Mágina (comarca of the province of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain).
- Sitlink count (Wikidata metadata): 45.
- Wikipedia article title: "Torres, Jaén".

Contextual (country-level) connections — Spain:
- Country: Spain (Kingdom of Spain), a sovereign state in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa.
- Spain capital: Madrid.
- Spain area: 505,990 square kilometers.
- Spain population: 48,592,909 (as of January 1, 2024).
- Spain government: parliamentary monarchy; Head of State King Felipe VI (since 2014-06-19); Head of Government Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (since 2018-06-02).
- Spain currency: Euro (adopted 1999).
- Spain official language (nationwide): Spanish; co-official regional languages include Catalan, Galician, Basque and Occitan.
- Spain constitution (current): adopted 1978-12-29 during the Spanish transition to democracy.
- Spain international memberships: European Union (since 1986), NATO (since 1982), United Nations (since 1955), and many other international organizations.
- Spain ISO codes: Alpha-2 ES; Alpha-3 ESP; Numeric 724.
- Spain internet TLD: .es; telephone country code: +34.
- Spain administrative divisions: 17 autonomous communities, 50 provinces, 2 autonomous cities, and 8,124 municipalities.

## FAQs
Q: Where is Torres located?
A: Torres is in southern Spain, in the province of Jaén (Andalusia), and is part of the Sierra Mágina comarca. Its coordinates are 37.786111111111 N, -3.51 W.

Q: What is the administrative status of Torres?
A: Torres is an official municipality (an administrative territorial entity of Spain) within Jaén Province and the Sierra Mágina comarca. The municipal category in Spain dates to the 19th century (municipality inception cited as +1842).

Q: How many people live in Torres?
A: Recorded population values for Torres (series provided) range from 1,592.0 down to 1,328.0 across the supplied dataset. The series ends with the value 1,328.0.

Q: Where can I find official information about Torres online?
A: The official municipal website is https://aytorres.es and the municipality is covered on Wikipedia under the title "Torres, Jaén".

Q: How is Torres related to larger administrative entities?
A: Torres is part of Jaén Province (province inception +1833) and the Sierra Mágina comarca in Andalusia. Nationally, it is within the Kingdom of Spain and subject to Spain’s administrative and legal frameworks.

## Why It Matters
Torres is a defined local government unit within Spain’s multi-tiered administrative system. As a municipality in Jaén and a member of the Sierra Mágina comarca, it performs local governance functions for its residents and contributes to the demographic, cultural, and administrative makeup of Andalusia and Spain. The provided population series and official online presence document local demographic trends and public access to municipal information. In broader terms, Torres exemplifies one of Spain’s thousands of municipalities that collectively underpin provincial and national administration, municipal services, electoral organization, and local identity within the Kingdom of Spain.

## Notable For
- Being a municipality in the province of Jaén and part of the Sierra Mágina comarca in Andalusia, Spain.
- Precise geographic position: latitude 37.786111111111, longitude -3.51.
- Maintaining an official municipal website at https://aytorres.es.
- Documented population series with values ranging from 1,592.0 down to 1,328.0 in the supplied dataset.
- Presence on Wikimedia/Wikidata with sitelink count 45 and the Wikipedia title "Torres, Jaén".

## Body

### Overview
Torres is an administratively recognized municipality (Spanish municipal category) located in southern Spain. It is officially described in Wikidata as a "municipality of the province of Jáen, Spain" and appears on Wikipedia under the title "Torres, Jaén." The municipality maintains an online presence via https://aytorres.es and has metadata on Wikidata indicating a sitelink count of 45.

### Location and Geography
- Coordinates: 37.786111111111 N, -3.51 W.
- Regional placement: Torres lies within the province of Jaén, which itself is a province of Spain located in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
- Comarca: Torres is part of the Sierra Mágina comarca, a recognized local territorial and geographical grouping inside Jaén Province.

### Administrative Status and Parent Entities
- Administrative classification: municipality — an administrative territorial entity in Spain (the municipal organizational category has an inception date listed as +1842-00-00).
- Province: part of Jaén Province (province inception cited as +1833-00-00; Jaén is one of Spain’s 50 provinces).
- Autonomous community context: Sierra Mágina is a comarca within Andalusia; Torres, as part of Sierra Mágina, falls under Andalusian regional jurisdiction for community-level matters.
- National context: Torres is governed under Spanish national law and administration as a subdivision of the Kingdom of Spain.

### Population
- Provided population dataset comprises the following values (in order): 1592.0, 1619.0, 1643.0, 1656.0, 1663.0, 1645.0, 1665.0, 1682.0, 1725.0, 1769.0, 1797.0, 1773.0, 1558.0, 1516.0, 1513.0, 1475.0, 1434.0, 1406.0, 1372.0, 1350.0, 1360.0, 1349.0, 1343.0, 1328.0.
- These figures represent the complete population series available in the provided source material; no explicit years are attached to individual points in the series within the supplied data.

### Online Presence and Identifiers
- Official municipal website: https://aytorres.es.
- Wikipedia title: "Torres, Jaén".
- Wikidata metadata: sitelink_count = 45; Wikidata description specifies Torres as a municipality of the province of Jaén, Spain.
- No SEO data for Torres was provided in the source material.

### Relation to Jaén Province and Sierra Mágina
- Jaén Province: Torres belongs to this provincial entity. Jaén Province is one of Spain’s provinces with an inception date recorded as +1833-00-00 in the supplied material.
- Sierra Mágina: Torres is part of this comarca; Sierra Mágina is explicitly identified as a comarca of Jaén Province in Andalusia, Spain.

### National Context — Spain (relevant connections)
- Country affiliation: Torres is located in the Kingdom of Spain, a sovereign parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa.
- Spain-level facts included in the source material provide national context for Torres’s governance, legal framework, and administrative hierarchy:
  - Capital city: Madrid.
  - Area: 505,990 km2.
  - National population: 48,592,909 (as of 2024-01-01).
  - Government form: parliamentary monarchy; Head of State King Felipe VI (since 2014-06-19); Head of Government Pedro Sánchez (since 2018-06-02).
  - Currency: Euro (adopted 1999).
  - Official national language: Spanish; multiple co-official regional languages (Catalan, Galician, Basque, Occitan) in specific communities.
  - Current constitution adopted: 1978-12-29.
  - International memberships: European Union, NATO, United Nations, OECD, WTO, and many other organizations listed in the source material.
  - National ISO codes and identifiers: ES / ESP / 724; internet TLD .es; telephone code +34.

### Historical and Legal Context (as it applies to Torres)
- Municipalities in Spain exist within a legal and historical framework described in the supplied country-level material: Spain’s modern constitutional order was established with the 1978 constitution. The municipal category (municipality of Spain) has an inception date listed as +1842 in the provided data, situating municipal governance within 19th-century administrative reforms.

### Related Entities and Projects (contextual connections)
- Torres is linked by administrative hierarchy and geography to:
  - Jaén Province (province-level administration).
  - Sierra Mágina comarca (local comarca grouping).
  - The broader structures of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia and the Kingdom of Spain.
- The supplied material also lists many Spain-origin projects and entities (media, technology, culture, business) as examples of Spain-based projects; these are national-level related entities but not specifically tied to Torres in the source material.

### Metadata and Cataloguing
- Wikipedia title used to index the municipality: "Torres, Jaén".
- Wikidata description: "municipality of the province of Jáen, Spain".
- Sitlink count: 45 (reflecting the number of Wikimedia sitelinks associated with the Wikidata item).

### Sources and Provenance
All facts in this entry are taken from the provided source material associated with the entity Torres (municipality of the province of Jaén, Spain), related Wikidata and Wikipedia metadata, and the contextual country- and province-level facts supplied in the same source. No external sources were consulted.

## References

1. Nomenclátor Geográfico de Municipios y Entidades de Población (20240402 edition)
2. [2020](https://andalucia.notariado.org/liferay/c/document_library/get_file?=11510482&folderId=15173850&name=DLFE-1486391.pdf)
3. [Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía. 2003](http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/boletines/2003/59/d/updf/d1.pdf)
4. OpenStreetMap
5. [Source](https://www.worlddata.info/europe/spain/timezones.php)
6. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
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9. Municipal Register of Spain 2011
10. Municipal Register of Spain 2010
11. Municipal Register of Spain 2009
12. Municipal Register of Spain 2008
13. Municipal Register of Spain 2007
14. Municipal Register of Spain 2006
15. Municipal Register of Spain 2005
16. Municipal Register of Spain 2004
17. Municipal Register of Spain 2002
18. Municipal Register of Spain 2001
19. Municipal Register of Spain 2014
20. Municipal Register of Spain 2015
21. Municipal Register of Spain 2016
22. Municipal Register of Spain 2017
23. Municipal Register of Spain 2018
24. [Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero. National Statistics Institute](http://www.ine.es/dynt3/inebase/index.htm?padre=525)
25. Municipal Register of Spain 2019
26. Municipal Register of Spain 2020
27. Municipal Register of Spain of 2021
28. Municipal Register of Spain of 2022
29. Municipal Register of Spain of 2023
30. Municipal Register of Spain of 2024
31. Municipal Register of Spain of 2025
32. List of Municipalities and their Codes by Provinces as of January 1, 2019
33. [Source](https://www.ine.es/dynt3/inebase/es/index.htm?padre=517&capsel=525)
34. GeoNames
35. Límites municipales, provinciales y autonómicos