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Montoro is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Córdoba, Andalusia. Housing lies on a bend of the river Guadalquivir, which envelopes from West, North, and East.
Montoro is identified with Roman Epora, a civitas foederata belonging to the Conventus Cordubensis in the early Republican era, which became a municipium in the time of Augustus. It is mentioned as the seat of an Islamic fortress ( Ḥiṣn Muntur) belonging to the Kūra of Córdoba in the 10th century.
The urban center is located in the area of contact between Sierra Morena and the countryside, located on a promontory inside the embedded meander that the Guadalquivir forms here, it owes its characteristic urban planning to the Muslim period of Al-Andalus. Since 2013, the meander of the Guadalquivir River, as it passes through Montoro, has been classified as a natural monument. It is also categorized as Monte Público. The river forms a very pronounced curvature, which is embedded in the Paleozoic materials (period between approximately 500 and 250 million years ago) of the foothills of Sierra Morena, which represents one of the best examples of epigenic meander on a national scale. . This section of the river is part of a Site of Community Interest (SCI), which is currently a Special Conservation Area (ZEC Río Guadalquivir-middle section ES6130015) and constitutes the southern entrance to the Sierras de Cardeña y Montoro natural park. , being located in a privileged position, since from it you can see the town of Montoro, declared a Historic-Artistic Site since 1969.
Its municipal area occupies approximately 581 km2, including areas of the mountains to the north and the plains and countryside to the south. A large area of its northern area is a protected natural area, as it is part of the Sierra de Cardeña y Montoro natural park and the Southwest Special Conservation Zone (ZEC) of the Sierra de Cardeña y Montoro (ES6130005). Likewise, the Gualdaquivir River as it passes through the municipal area is part of the ZEC Río Guadalquivir-middle section (ES6130015). In addition, the river as it passes through the town center forms a meander that has become a natural monument Meandro de Montoro. The Arenoso River, coming from the mountains, is the most important tributary of the territory.
The altitude varies between 782 meters on Cerro de Brezorrubios, in the mountain area, and 143 meters on the banks of the Guadalquivir. The countryside, south of the river, reaches 335 meters The town is located on a hill, 195 meters above sea level.
The municipality of Montoro borders the municipalities of Adamuz, Cardeña, Andújar (Jaén), Marmolejo (Jaén), Pedro Abad, Bujalance, Villa del Río and Lopera (Jaén).
Summers are scorching, with the average maximum summer temperature being the highest in all of Europe in the last 16 years and in recent years the average maximum temperature has consistently exceeded in July and August. Even in June, mean maximums above were recorded, with a record of in June 2025, being the highest recorded in the country in a month of June. Temperatures above occur very often every year.
The lowest temperature ever recorded was on 9 February 2012, while the highest temperature was on 14 August 2021, which is also one of the highest ever recorded in Spain. In July 2015, Montoro registered a mean maximum of , with 22 days being above , 19 of them above .
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