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Cañas
Cañas
Municipality
	Church of the Assumption
	Cañas Location of Cañaswithin La Rioja Cañas Cañas (Spain)
	Coordinates: 42°23′30″N 2°50′47″W / 42.39167°N 2.84639°W
Country	Spain
Autonomous; community	La Rioja
Comarca	Nájera
Government
• Mayor	Domingo de Silos Merino Bravo (PP)
Area
• Total	9.72 km2 (3.75 sq mi)
Elevation	643 m (2,110 ft)
Population (2018)
• Total	97
Website	www.aytocanias.org

Cañas is a municipality of La Rioja, Spain. It was the birthplace of Saint Dominic of Silos (1000-1073).

The abbey of Santa María de San Salvador de Cañas for Cistercian nuns was founded in this town by Lope Díaz I de Haro and his wife Aldonza in 1169 and 1170.^[1] Its wealth and power culminated during the 13th century under the abbess Urraca Díaz de Haro, between 1222 and 1262.^[2] The nuns benefited from the patronage of the Haro family until its extinction in 1322.^[3] The community is still active today and retains fragments of its medieval library, particularly a complete Burgundian antiphonary from around 1200, and a Castilian missal from 1267 to 1279.^[4]

Politics

List of mayors since the democratic elections of 1979
Term	Mayor	Political Party
1979–1983	Julián Allona Ugarte	UCD
1983–1987	Ricardo Cereceda Merino	AP
1987–1991	Roberto de Carta Sáenz	PSOE
1991–1995	José Antonio Merino Hernáiz	PP
1995–1999	José Antonio Merino Hernáiz	PP
1999–2003	José Antonio Merino Hernáiz	PP
2003–2007	José Antonio Merino Hernáiz	PP
2007–2011	José Antonio Merino Hernáiz	PP
2011–2015	José Antonio Merino Hernáiz	PP
2015–2019	Domingo de Silos Merino Bravo	PP
2019–2023	n/d	n/d
2023–	n/d	n/d

Notable people

Dominic of Silos, saint in the Catholic Church.

Points of interest

Monastery of Santa María

Parish church of the Assumption

Saint Mary Hermitage

Notes

^ Ghislain Baury, Les religieuses de Castille. Patronage aristocratique et ordre cistercien, XIIe-XIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012
^ Ghislain Baury, "Sainteté, mémoire et lignage des abbesses cisterciennes de Castille au XIIIe s. La comtesse Urraca de Cañas (av. 1207-1262)", Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2011, vol. 41, n° 1, pp. 151-182, http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosmedievales/article/view/340/344.
^ Ghislain Baury, "Patronage et gestion des domaines chez les cisterciennes castillanes. Les fausses quittances de Cañas (1298-1302)", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 59, fasc. 3-4 (2008), págs. 237-252.
^ Ghislain Baury, "Une bibliothèque médiévale de moniales cisterciennes en Castille. Cañas et les membra disjecta de son missel", Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, t. 61, fasc. 2-4 (2010), págs. 141-183.