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Spain was Western Europe's leading fishing nation, and it had the world's fourth largest fishing fleet. [2] Spaniards ate more fish per capita than any other European people, except the Scandinavians. [2] In the mid-1980s, Spain's fishing catch averaged about 1.3 million tons a year, and the fishing industry accounted for about 1 percent of GDP ...
White Towns of Andalusia. Olvera. Vejer de la Frontera. Typical house in the province of Granada. Gaucín. The White Towns of Andalusia, or Pueblos Blancos, are a series of whitewashed towns and large villages in the northern part of the provinces of Cádiz and Málaga in southern Spain, mostly within the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park.
1,412,541. The Costa del Sol[a] (literally "Coast of the Sun") is a region in the south of Spain in the autonomous community of Andalusia, comprising the coastal towns and communities along the coastline of the Province of Málaga and the eastern part of Campo de Gibraltar in Cádiz. Formerly made up only of a series of small fishing ...
Setenil de las Bodegas is a pueblo (town) and municipality in the province of Cádiz, Spain, famous for its dwellings built into a rock that hangs above the Río Guadalporcún. [clarification needed] According to the 2005 census, the town has a population of 3,016 inhabitants. [citation needed] This small town is located 157 kilometres (98 ...
Apart from 1984, 1985, and 1986 (Spain's first three years as a member), 2000 saw the most new sites inscribed, with five that year. As of 2021, Spain has 49 total sites inscribed on the list, the same number as France, which is the fourth largest number of sites per country, only behind Italy (58), China (56), and Germany (51). [5]
Andalusia. Andalusia (UK: / ˌændəˈluːsiə, - ziə /, US: /- ʒ (i) ə, - ʃ (i) ə /; [5][6][7] Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] ⓘ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. Andalusia is located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous ...
The Tabernas Desert is located between the Sierra de los Filabres to the north, the Sierra Alhamilla to the south-southeast and the Sierra Nevada to the west. Part of the desert belongs to the Sierra Alhamilla (with lush vegetation composed of a forest of holm oaks and reforestation of woodland pines, with a great biological diversity: thyme, fig trees, oleander, herons, peregrine falcons ...
The Spanish property bubble is the collapsed overshooting part of a long-term price increase of Spanish real estate prices. This long-term price increase has happened in various stages from 1985 up to 2008. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The housing bubble can be clearly divided in three periods: 1985–1991, in which the price nearly tripled ...