No doubt, you woke up this morning asking yourself, "which village in the province has the fewest inhabitants'" OK, so you didn't but here it is anyway...

The smallest population, and the runner up, are both situated in the Alpujarra and they are Lobras (not to be confused with Lobres) and the second is Juviles, right over on the eastern side of the Alpujarra Granadina.

Lobras has 134 inhabitants, plenty of cats and dogs and the odd foreigner or two, smuggled away in cortijos. However, they lost 15 badly needed residents during the course of last year when the census stood at 149.

Juviles, which is where packets of Jamón Serrano come from in your nearest supermarket, has 138 inhabitants, a dozen or so goats, the odd mule and a smattering of chickens. Like Lobras, it has lost residents, dropping by eight absconding humans. Bear in mind that some of them, perhaps, left the village in a wooden box, at a ripe age.

Who’s next? Beas de Guadix which you will find, unsurprisingly, not far from Guadix. This village sports 316 residents, having sprouted an extra inhabitant during the previous year.

So, as we mentioned in the hard copy of the Seaside Gazette (Costa Tropical & Valle de Lecrín) which you should soon have in your expectant mitts, the total population of the Province of Granada is 937,135 inhabitants, after 6,954 new inhabitants joined the population census!

(News: Lobras/Juviles, Alpujarra, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Population Census, Inhabitants, Residents, Growth, Population Loss