The
gazetteer published by the
INE, usually on the dates when the
population census was carried out, distinguishes, within each municipality, the following population entities, each of which has a delimited territorial scope. • Collective population entity (
in Spanish: Entidad colectiva de población): a grouping of two or more singular population entities. • Singular population entity (
in Spanish: Entidad singular de población): any inhabited area of a
municipality, inhabited or exceptionally uninhabited, clearly differentiated within the municipality and known by a specific denomination that identifies it without the possibility of confusion. • Population nucleus (
in Spanish: Núcleo de población): is a group of at least ten buildings that form streets, squares and other urban roads. By exception, the number of buildings may be less than 10, as long as the population that inhabits them exceeds 50 inhabitants. The nucleus includes those buildings that, being isolated, are less than 200 meters from the outer limits of the aforementioned complex, although in determining this distance, land occupied by industrial or commercial facilities, parks, gardens, sports areas, cemeteries, parking lots and others, as well as canals or rivers that may be crossed by bridges, must be excluded. •
Scattered (
in Spanish: Diseminados): These are buildings -inhabited or not- that do not meet the conditions established to form a population nucleus. The singular population entity can be constituted by several population nuclei, in addition to scattered. If there is no population nucleus within the singular population entity, it is formed by the existing scattered areas in its territory. Each singular population entity has a category that is the qualification granted, or traditionally recognized, such as
city,
town,
lugar or
village, and in the absence thereof, the one that responds to its origin and characteristics, such as
baserri,
settlement,
barrio,
monastery, tourist center,
residential area,
urbanization and others. Similarly, a population nucleus corresponds to one of the following categories:
city,
town,
lugar or
hamlet,
settlement,
barrio,
residential area,
urbanization. Some
collective population entities receive, according to the legislation of each
Autonomous Community, the consideration of
local Entity of territorial scope inferior to the municipality foreseen in the Local Regime Law; these entities according to this law do not have legal personality, and according to the autonomous legislation can receive their own denominations: in the autonomous legislation they can receive other denominations such as
hamlets,
parishes,
villages,
barrios,
elizates,
concejos,
pedanías, annexed places and other analogous ones. In
Alava and
Navarre, these entities are called councils and, in accordance with the corresponding legislation, have legal personality. == INE code of entities and population nuclei ==