Mijas

Mijas municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Andalusia
Province :	Málaga
Comarca :	Costa del Sol Occidental
Coordinates	36 ° 36 ′ N , 4 ° 38 ′ W Coordinates: 36 ° 36 ′ N , 4 ° 38 ′ W
Height :	428 msnm
Area :	149.0 km²
Residents :	82,742 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	555.32 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	29649, 29650
Municipality number ( INE ):	29070
Nearest airport :	Málaga ( Aeropuerto de Málaga , 14 km )
administration
Official language :	Castilian
Mayor :	Antonio Sánchez Pacheco ( PSOE )
Address of the municipal administration:	Plaza Virgen de la Peña, s / n. - 29650 Mijas (Málaga)
Website :	www.mijas-digital.es/mijas/extranet/
Location of the municipality

Mijas is a city and a municipality in the Spanish region of Andalusia . It is one of the 100 independent municipalities in the province of Málaga .

The city of Mijas has 82,742 registered inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) on an area of 149 km². This corresponds to 555 inhabitants per km². Since there is no statutory registration requirement in Spain (comparable to Anglo-Saxon countries), the actual number of inhabitants is significantly higher. This applies in particular to foreign residents, among whom the British make up the largest contingent, followed by Germans, Scandinavians, etc. The residents of Mijas have, not least for this reason, one of the highest per capita incomes in the communities on the Costa del Sol . The only official language is Spanish (Castilian).

geography

Geographical location

Mijas is located about 565 kilometers from the Spanish capital Madrid on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula . 30 kilometers southwest of Málaga on the Costa del Sol , the municipality extends from the coast to the south to the Sierra de Mijas in the north. Neighboring municipalities are Marbella and Ojén in the west, Coín , Alhaurín el Grande and Alhaurín de la Torre in the north, and Benalmádena and Fuengirola in the east .

The historic center, the city of Mijas ( Mijas Pueblo ), is located in the northeast of the municipality at the foot of the 1150 meter high mountain of the same name at an average height of 428 meters above sea level.

climate

The region around Mijas offers a subtropical Mediterranean climate, with an average annual temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, an annual rainfall of 500 l / m² and almost 3000 hours of sunshine per year.

tourism

Due to its location near the tourist resorts on the Costa del Sol between Torremolinos and Marbella , Mijas is a very popular destination for day trips.

In the Mijas Museum you can see the reconstructed hideout of the stairs of the pre-civil war mayor of Mijas, Manuel Cortés Quero . After the Spanish Civil War he had hidden in Mijas until the Franco regime in 1969, thirty years after the end of the war, issued a general amnesty for all "war criminals" - only those of the opposing side were meant.

Besides Cortés, only ten men came out of their hiding places. The English journalist Ronald Fraser interviewed Manuel Cortés and published the book In Hiding in 1972 . The life of Manuel Cortés , published in German under the title Im Versteck . The interviews were a milestone in the methodological development of oral history .