Fuente Obejuna is a Spanish town in the province of Córdoba, autonomous community of Andalusia.

It was made famous by Lope de Vega's play Fuenteovejuna about the uprising that took place there in 1476.

Before the creation of the Real Academia Española, the use of "b" and "v" was different from what it is today, and because of that fact Fuente Obejuna can be written in several ways, all of them correct.

[citation needed] Some people have related the name of this town to the Roman villa Fons Mellaria ("honey fountain", whence the Spanish demonym mellarienses) that was situated in the municipality of Fuente Obejuna, 5 km from the urban area, at Masatrigos hill, a place where Roman remains have been found.

[citation needed] There are 14 pedanías that belong to Fuente Obejuna's municipality: Number of residents in 1996-2006: