La Herradura
| Almuñécar municipality: La Herradura | |||
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 The bay of La Herradura, view from west to east
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| coat of arms | Map of Spain | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : | Andalusia | ||
| Province : | Granada | ||
| Comarca : | Costa Granadina | ||
| Coordinates | 36 ° 44 ′ N , 3 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 10 msnm | ||
| Residents : | 4,243 (2011) INE | ||
| Postal code : | 18697 | ||
| Area code: | 18017000400 | ||
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| Mayor : | Juan José Ruiz Joya ( PP ) | ||
La Herradura is a place on the Costa Tropical , the extension of the Costa del Sol in the province of Granada in Spain . The place name - Herradura means "horseshoe" - is derived from the curved shape of the bay on which the place is located.
La Herradura is now a district of Almuñécar . The place had 4243 inhabitants in 2011.
history
On October 19, 1562, a fleet under the command of Juan de Mendoza , which came from the Kingdom of Naples and sailed towards Málaga , sought protection from a storm in the bay of La Herradura when the east wind Levante suddenly died down and a strong south wind came up instead. 25 ships of the fleet crashed into each other and onto the rocks of the Punta de la Mona , a headland that bordered the bay. 5000 people are said to have died in this shipwreck, which even found its way into the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes , which was written and published some forty years later.
literature
- Calero Palacios, María del Carmen: Aportación Documental en Torno al Naufragio de la Armada. Española en La Herradura. Almuñécar 1990.
