The Ojos del Guadiana are located within the Villarrubia de los Ojos municipal territory.[3] They are the source of the Guadiana river, the fourth longest river of the Iberian peninsula. There's also a National Park, the Tablas de Daimiel National Park located in the Tablas de Daimiel wetlands, shared with the neighbouring municipality, Daimiel.
The landforms of Villarrubia de los Ojos are mountainous in the north and flat in the south. The weather is quite strong with very cold winters and very hot summers. There are some mountains over 1,200 metres and the flat zone is at 550 metres above sea level in the Spanish central plateau.
Together with Aldea del Rey, Almagro, Bolaños and Daimiel, Villarrubia was one of the five towns of the Campo de Calatrava.[6] By the end of the middle ages, Villarrubia, like the rest of the Campo de Calatrava, featured a quite large mudéjar population.[6] In 1502, the Catholic Monarchs granted local moriscos from Villarrubia (and the wider Campo) tax exemptions, as if they were for all legal purposes old christians.[7] Tightly assimilated into the local society, the moriscos from Villarrubia fiercely refused their decreed expulsion, and the local lord, the Count of Salinas [es] (and President of the Council of Portugal), lobbied in order to curb the impact of the measure.[8] Following the two expulsions from 1611 and 1612, most of the expelled moriscos were able to return to Villarrubia.[9]
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Dadson, Trevor J. (2007). Los moriscos de Villarrubia de los Ojos (siglos XV-XVIII). Historia de una minoría asimilada, expulsada y reintegrada. 1328 pp. Iberoamericana Vervuert. ISBN978-84-8489-235-9.
Jerez García, Óscar (2009). Villarrubia de los Ojos de Guadiana. Geografía, Paisaje y Medio Ambiente. 520 pp + CD. Madrid: CERSA. ISBN978-84-92539-30-7.