Tordelrábano is a municipality and locality in Spain, in the Province of Guadalajara, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. The municipal territory, located in the comarca of the Serranía de Guadalajara, has a population of 13 inhabitants (2018). According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 11 inhabitants.

Geography The municipality has an area of 11.62 km², a population of 21 inhabitants, and a population density of 1.2 inhabitants/km². It forms part of Stage 10 of the celebrated Ruta de Don Quijote, which crosses through these lands as a necessary place of passage for Don Quixote (Alonso Quijano) on his literary journey to Barcelona. In Tordelrábano, the roads coming from Atienza and Rienda converge. There is an official rest point of the route in Tordelrábano.

History By the mid-19th century, the settlement had a population of 160 inhabitants and a total of 45 houses. The locality is described in the fifteenth volume of Pascual Madoz's Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar in the following manner:

The village has a church and a hermitage, both dating from the 16th century. The locality is cited in the Episodio Nacional Prim, by Benito Pérez Galdós.

Demographics Tordelrábano has a population of 13 inhabitants (2018).

Historical census population The following table shows the evolution of the population of Tordelrábano according to the population censuses carried out by the INE since 1842. The figures represent the de jure population (población de derecho) and, for earlier censuses, the de facto population (población de hecho).

+ Population of Tordelrábano by census year Year Population 1842 160 1857 190 1860 199 1877 212 1887 212 1897 224 1900 244 1910 251 1920 244 1930 236 1940 189 1950 167 1960 112 1970 61 1981 25 1991 17 2001 10 2011 16 2021 10

Municipal register (padrón) population + Demographic evolution of Tordelrábano according to the INE 1991 1996 2001 2004 2009 2013 2015 17 18 11 11 10 14 21

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