El Oso
Municipality and Town
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Coordinates: 40°50′30″N 4°46′14″W / 40.841666666667°N 4.7705555555556°W / 40.841666666667; -4.7705555555556
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Ávila
Municipality	El Oso
Government
• Alcalde (Mayor)	Luciano Arroyo Martín (PSOE)
Area
• Total	18.49 km2 (7.14 sq mi)
Elevation	893 m (2,930 ft)
Population  (2025-01-01)[1]
• Total	125
• Density	6.76/km2 (17.5/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	Official website

El Oso is a municipality (pop. 229) in the Spanish province of Ávila, in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.

The village takes its name (which means "the bear") from a megalithic monument outside the church. The monument in question may not have been intended to represent a bear. It is classed as a Verraco, a type of prehistoric monument found in central Spain, which shares its name with the Spanish word for a boar. Local legend identifies this example as a bear.^{[citation needed]}

• [2] — Web Official www.ElOso.es