In addition to the town of the same name, the municipality also comprises the settlements of Puebla de Argeme and Rincón del Obispo.

Coria preserves several monuments and holds an annual national tourist interest festival in honor of San Juan.

Ordoño I of Asturias raided Coria and its surroundings circa 859−860, returning to the north with a loot that included the local Christian Mozarab population.

[2] During the time that Muslim Coria was a borderland city, it had probably an average demographic importance, offset by a larger geostrategic notability,[3] located in between the Tagus and the Sistema Central.

During the 1640−1668 War against Portugal, the land of Coria suffered greatly; although the city was not taken by the Portuguese, the countryside was reiterately raided, causing the impoverishment of the region.