Almuñécar

Almuñécar municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Andalusia
Province :	Granada
Coordinates	36 ° 44 ′  N , 3 ° 41 ′  W Coordinates: 36 ° 44 ′  N , 3 ° 41 ′  W
Height :	24  msnm
Area :	83.36 km²
Residents :	26,514 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	318.07 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	18690 (Almuñécar and Velilla-Taramay ), 18697 ( La Herradura )
Municipality number  ( INE ):	18017
administration
Mayor :	Trinidad Herrera Lorente (PP)
Address of the municipal administration:	Plaza de la Constitución, 1, 18690 Almuñécar, tel: [phone]
Location of the municipality

Almuñécar (pronounced: Almuniëkar ; the emphasis is on the e ) is a place in the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia on the Costa Tropical , a coastal strip between Nerja ( province of Málaga ) and Motril ( province of Granada ) with a subtropical climate. The place is at the mouth of the Río Verde . The neighboring town of La Herradura to the west is now a district.

The climate in Almuñécar is Mediterranean to subtropical . An average of 340 sunny days and mild temperatures - always above 12 ° C and an average of 17.6 ° C - characterize the city.

history

Statue of Abd ar-Rahman I.

Almuñécar playa Velilla

Almuñécar emerged from a Phoenician settlement called Sexi or Hexi , even today some of the inhabitants still call themselves Sexitanos . An aqueduct has been preserved from Roman times, when Sexi first belonged to the province of Hispania Ulterior and later to Baetica . Strabo reports that the city name has also become the trade name for salt fish.

The fishing village flourished under the Moorish rule, now under the nameالمنكب / al-Munakkab . According to legend, the surviving Umayyad ʿAbd ar-Raḥman is said to have set foot on Andalusian soil for the first time in 755 .

Infrastructure and economy

Church in Almuñécar

Since the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, Almuñécar has become one of the most important tourist spots in the middle of summer in the province of Granada . The place has good transport connections and its own football stadium.

Almuñécar is also an important production location for subtropical fruits such as avocados , cherimoyas , mangoes , kiwis etc.

politics

Historical development in the Almuñécar Municipal Council

Political party	2011		2015
	Be right %	Seats	Be right %	Seats
CAnda	29.76%	7th	-	-
PP	28.07%	6th	-	-
PSOE	19.81%	4th	-	-
IULV-CA	10.04%	2	-	-
PA	9.50%	2	-	-

Source: Spanish Ministry of the Interior

Population development

Source: INE archive - graphic processing for Wikipedia

beaches

Almuñécar has 19 km of coastline and 15 beaches. The beaches of Velilla, San Cristóbal and La Herradura have been awarded by the Spanish Institute for Quality in Tourism. There are also bays typical of the Andalusian coast and even nudist beaches.

Attractions

• Castillo de San Miguel , built in the 16th century
• Parroquia de la Encarnación, Mudejar style , 16th century

Town twinning

• Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria , Germany (since June 25, 2005) 
• Livry-Gargan in Île-de-France , France 
• Cerveteri in Lazio , Italy 
• Al-Hoceima , Morocco 
• Baracoa , Cuba 
• Chinguetti , Mauritania 
• Hendersonville North Carolina , United States  
• Chan Yunis , Palestine 
• Kélibia , Tunisia 
• Kuwait City , Kuwait 
• Larache , Morocco 
• Puerto de la Cruz , Spain 

Web links

Commons : Almuñécar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Claudius Ptolemy , 2.4.7.
3. ↑ Pomponius Mela , 2.6.
4. ↑ Strabo, 3.4.2: "ἐφεξῆς δ ἐστὶν ἡ τῶν Ἐξιτανῶν πόλις, ἐξ ἧς καὶ τὰ ταρίχη ἐπωνύμως λέγεται - After the city of Hexitaner after which the salted fish comes. ( Garum , has its trade name?)."
5. ^ Elecciones Locales 2011 - Resultados provisionales ( Spanish ) Ministerio del Interior. May 22, 2011. Accessed January 21, 2019.
6. ↑ turgranada.es: Almunecar ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 4, 2014.