Town, Burgos province, site of the battle fought in 1054 between the brothers Ferrando and Garcia. Garcia was killed, allowing Ferrando to regain territories in Navarre he had conceded to his brother 17 years earlier..
García was buried in a church in the nearby village of Ages and his tomb was only discovered there in the 20th Century. In the 21st Century Atapuerca achieved new fame for the human fossils found there, dating back one million years.
When King Don Sancho of Navarre saw that there was a new King in Castille, he thought to recover the lands of Bureva and of Old Castille as far as Laredo, which had been lost when the King his father was defeated and slain at Atapuerca in the mountains of Oca.