Calle Jiloca

The Jiloca rises in the lands of Teruel and runs some 120 kilometres before yielding its waters to the Jalón near Calatayud, of which it is the main tributary. It names a whole Aragonese comarca, with its capital in Calamocha, and waters a valley of old irrigated fields between the Sierra de Albarracín and the plain of Daroca. Its name is bound up with the wind. The form Jiloca is linked to the Andalusi Arabic šalawq, “sea wind”, the same root as jaloque and siroco, the warm air that blows from the south-east. The place name would thus point to the course’s orientation. Jiloca belongs to the part of the Hispanoamérica neighbourhood where a group of streets took the names of peninsular rivers, mixed with those of nations and cities across the Atlantic that give this corner of Chamartín its character.