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Villacarriedo
Villacarriedo
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Villacarriedo Location in Spain Villacarriedo Villacarriedo (Spain)
	Coordinates: 43°13′46″N 3°48′33″W / 43.22944°N 3.80917°W
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Cantabria
Province	Cantabria
Seat	Villacarriedo
Government
• Alcalde	Ángel Sainz Ruiz (PRC)
Area
• Total	50.74 km2 (19.59 sq mi)
Elevation	211 m (692 ft)
Population (2018)
• Total	1,604
• Density	32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	39640
Website	Ayunt. de Villacarriedo

Villacarriedo is a municipality in the Spanish "comunidad autónoma" of Cantabria.

Sub-districts and demography

In 2009 the municipality contained 1,765 registered inhabitants divided between the various villages and hamlets as follows:

Abionzo (174 people)
Aloños (159 people)
Bárcena de Carriedo (185 people)
Pedroso (71 people)
Santibáñez (254 people)
Soto (29 people)
Tezanos (385 people)
Villacarriedo (capital) (508 people)

Location

Villacarriedo, the administrative centre and the most populous village in the municipality, is positioned 211 meters above sea level and 36 km (22 miles) to the south of Santander, the Cantabrian capital.

Economy

36.9% of the working population are recorded as working in the primary (agricultural) sector. 15.1% work in construction and 10.8% in industry while a further 37.2% work in the tertiary (service) sector.