# Fontiveros

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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Fontiveros
| settlement_type = [Municipality](/source/List_of_municipalities_in_%C3%81vila) and Town
| nickname =
| image_flag =
| image_shield = Escudo de Fontiveros (Ávila).svg
| image_skyline = Fontiveros fuente 01.jpg
| pushpin_map             = Spain Castile and León#Spain
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location in Spain.
| coordinates             = {{Coord|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type        = Country 
| subdivision_name        = {{ESP}}
| subdivision_type1       = [Autonomous community](/source/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain) 
| subdivision_name1       = {{flag|Castile and León}}
| subdivision_type2       = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_Spain) 
| subdivision_name2       = {{flag|Province of Ávila|name=Ávila}} 
| subdivision_type3 = Comarca
| subdivision_name3 = La Moraña
| subdivision_type4 = [Municipality](/source/List_of_municipalities_in_%C3%81vila)
| subdivision_name4 = Fontiveros
| leader_title = Alcalde<br />(Mayor)
| leader_name = Luciano Arroyo Martín |leader_party = [PSOE](/source/Spanish_Socialist_Workers'_Party)
| area_magnitude =
| area_total_km2 = 36.42
| area_land_km2 =
| area_water_km2 =
| elevation_m = 888
| population_note =
| population_as_of = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
| population_footnotes = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
| population_total = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = [CET](/source/Central_European_Time)
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = [CEST](/source/Central_European_Summer_Time)
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| website = {{official website}}
| footnotes =
}}

'''Fontiveros''' is a municipality in [Spain](/source/Spain) in the [Ávila](/source/%C3%81vila_(province)) province, in the autonomous community of [Castile and León](/source/Castile_and_Le%C3%B3n).  It comprises an area of approximately 2 square kilometers and according to the 2011 [census](/source/census) ([INE](/source/Instituto_Nacional_de_Estad%C3%ADstica_(Spain))), the municipality has a population of 173 inhabitants.

It is famous for being the birthplace of Saint [John of the Cross](/source/John_of_the_Cross).{{Citation needed|date=January 2026}}

thumb|Iglesia de San Cipriano
thumb|Monumento a San Juan de la Cruz

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|source = INE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Datos.htm?t=2858], INE</ref>
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|2023 |716
|2024 |725
|2025 |715
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}
* {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080424123711/http://www.pueblos-espana.org/castilla+y+leon/avila/fontiveros/ Community website]

{{Municipalities in Ávila}}
{{John of the Cross}}
{{authority control}}

Category:Municipalities in the Province of Ávila
{{Ávila-geo-stub}}

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