Montes de Oca (comarca)

Montes de Oca
Comarca
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Burgos
Capital	Belorado
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Largest municipality	Belorado

Montes de Oca is a comarca located east of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bounded on the north by La Bureba, south by the Sierra de la Demanda comarca, on the east by the province of La Rioja and west by the Alfoz de Burgos.

When the Roman legions arrived to the area, it was the territory of the Autrigones tribe.

After the Berber withdrawal, Alfonso II's depopulation (circa 742) and the razzias undertaken at the turn of the ninth century, the Montes de Oca were repopulated mainly by Astures, Cantabri, Visigoths, and Vascones (Basques) in the mid-ninth century, although remained border between the County of Castile with the Caliphate of Córdoba and its allies for at least a century and was afterwards border between kingdom of Castile and the kingdom of Navarre till the mid-twelfth century. During this period the shire to which belonged change from one kingdom to another until finally passed to the kingdom of Castile after an award, in 1146.

The comarca capital is Belorado and this small city agrees with its old judicial party, excluding Alcocero de Mola.

The comarca contains the following municipalities:^[1]

The name of the municipality the entity belongs to is in parentheses.

• Province of Burgos
• Comarcas of Spain

• website of the Province of Burgos delegation

42°24′09″N 3°12′39″W / 42.4025°N 3.2109°W / 42.4025; -3.2109