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Cedillo
municipality

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Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Extremadura
Province	Cáceres
Municipality	Cedillo
Area
• Total	61 km² (24 sq mi)
Elevation	270 m (890 ft)
Population (2018)^[1]
• Total	449
• Density	7.4/km² (19/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Cedillo (Portuguese: Cedilho) is a town and municipality in Spain, located in the province of Cáceres, community of Extremadura. According to the 2008 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 518 inhabitants.

Languages

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The town is close to the border with Portugal. Although the official language is Spanish, the traditional local dialect is a variety of Portuguese. The Portuguese spoken here is not Standard Portuguese but instead consists of an archaic Portuguese dialect arrived in the 18th century known as Cedilheiro. It is similar to the Alentejan dialect of Portuguese spoken in the neighbouring area of Portugal.

Portuguese is spoken here because most of the first inhabitants of this region were Portuguese colonists who arrived in the 18th century. In addition, in Cedillo, speaking Spanish was considered an act of pedantry and a symbol of social and economic relief. The children who could attend school spoke Spanish because they learned it in school, but they still spoke Portuguese in their homes.

Currently older people mostly speak Portuguese, while young people speak Spanish but understand both languages. Cedilheiro is on the verge of dying out here under pressure from Spanish.

Economy

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The local workforce is primarily employed in the primary sector, particularly agriculture and livestock farming. Some residents also engage in temporary work for the municipal government, which benefits from substantial tax revenues generated by the Tagus reservoir and its hydroelectric power station, constructed in the 1960s, as well as from photovoltaic facilities established in 2023. ^[2]

References

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^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ "Historia Ayuntamiento de Cedillo" [History of Cedillo's Townhall]. Cedillo Government website (in Spanish). Spanish government. Retrieved 7 June 2025.

39°39′N 7°30′W / 39.650°N 7.500°W / 39.650; -7.500

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