Albalá is a municipality in the province of Cáceres, in the Extremadura region of western Spain. It is a small rural settlement in a sparsely populated part of the country, near the border with Portugal.
From 1960 until 2001 the municipality was officially known as Albalá del Caudillo, a name it held during the later Franco era before reverting to Albalá. According to the 2006 census (INE), it had a population of 850 inhabitants.