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The Costa del Sol is situated between two lesser known coastal regions, the Costa de la Luz and the Costa Tropical. The region has no official limit, but it is generally accepted that the Costa del Sol stretches from the municipality of La Línea de la Concepción in the west to Nerja in the east, spanning around 150 kilometers of coastline.
The name Costa de Almería is a term established for purposes of promoting tourism within the region. Beginning on 16 February 1928, tourism promoter Rodolfo Lussnigg began promoting the area under the name Costa del Sol; however, that name, originally referring specifically to the city of Almería, has since become attached to the coast of the province of Málaga.
The Costa de la Luz (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkosta ðe la luθ], "Coast of Light") is a section of the Andalusian coast in Spain facing the Atlantic. It extends from Tarifa in the south, along the coasts of the Province of Cádiz and the Province of Huelva , to the mouth of the Guadiana River .
Costa del Sol Occidental (English: "Western Coast of the Sun") is a comarca in Andalusia, southern Spain. It occupies a narrow coastal strip delimited by the cordillera Penibética ( Sierra de Mijas , Sierra Alpujata , Sierra Blanca , Sierra Bermeja , Sierra Crestallina ) to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Málaga-Costa del Sol is one of the nine comarcas into which the province of Málaga is divided and is the second most populated comarca in the autonomous community of Andalusia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Geography
The Costa do Sol State Park was created by state decree 42.929 of 18 April 2011 with an area of about 9,841 hectares (24,320 acres). [1] The park was created in a ceremony in Búzios attended by federal Environmental Minister Carlos Minc and state governor Sérgio Cabral Filho .
Costa del Sol Málaga was founded in 1994 after the merger of the two women's clubs from Málaga [3] at the time, Insana and Clubai. Its first president was Fernando de Irigoyen, with Carmen Morales as vice-president. [4] In 1995, the team was managed by Carmen until 2001, when Carmen Morales de Setién took over.
The Porta del Sol tourism region was designated in 2003 and officially launched on December 20, 2005, by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company by decree of Law No. 158. [5] The name of the region, Porta del Sol, references both the historic church of Porta Coeli (Latin for "gateway" or "doorway to heaven") and the famous scenic sunsets that can be seen along the western coast of Puerto Rico. [6]