The year 928 Garcia Sanchez I of Navarra occupied the throne who married two time. From Teresa, their secondary woman, were born Ramiro, Urraca and Jimeno. In order to satisfy the desires of Teresa,Sancho becomed king of Pamplona, and Ramiro created the kingdom of Viguera.The small reign included the valleys of the Leza and the Iregua until Ajamil and Almarza of Cameros and it exists only during sixty years.The kings of Viguera were three, Ramiro (970- 991) and their Sancho children and Garcia to Ramirez of Viguera, that died before the 1030.Garcia IV of Najera delivers to Fortun Ochoiz Viguera, with both Cameros, Val of Arnedo and the others towns from cantabria. The children of Fortun received the castle of Viguera in holding, Autol, Arnedo Jubera, Ocon and Quel.
When Alfonso I the Batallador invades La Rioja, in 1116, he sustituyed the two tenentes of the villas and castles by confidence people. In the census of the Crown of Castilla of the XVI century appear with 250 families, around 1250 inhabitants, and in the census of 1840 with 280 families, around 1320 inhabitants. The population has diminished notably along the present century.