This article aims to establish criteria for rigorously define what constitutes a rural or urban area, given the limitations of traditional methodologies. Secondly, a rural / urban typology is proposed at the municipal level for Spain taking into account three criteria: demographics - combining densities with minimum population thresholds -, information on land use and the degree of accessibility from the rural world to cities. After establishing the existence of six different types of municipalities we proceed to a characterization of the Spanish provinces in four different categories using cluster analysis.... [Leer más...]