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{{Short description|Autonomous community of Spain}} | |||
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{{About|the autonomous community of modern Spain|the medieval Islamic state which covered most of Iberia|al-Andalus|other uses}} | |||
{{Autonomous community | |||
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} | |||
|name = Andalusia | |||
{{Infobox autonomous community of Spain | |||
|full-name = Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía | |||
| name = Andalusia | |||
|flag = Bandera de Andalucía.png | |||
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| native_name = {{native name|es|'''Andalucía'''}} | ||
| settlement_type = ] | |||
|motto = Andalucía por sí, para España y la humanidad<br />(Andalusia by herself, for Spain, and for humankind) | |||
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| image_flag = Flag of Andalucía.svg | ||
| flag_type = ] | |||
|capital = ] | |||
| image_shield = Escudo de Andalucía (oficial2).svg | |||
|language = ] | |||
| shield_type = ] | |||
|area = 87,268 | |||
| label_map = | |||
|area-rank = 2nd | |||
| image_map = ] | |||
|area-magnitude = E10 | |||
| map_alt = | |||
|area-percent = 17.2% | |||
| motto = {{lang|es|Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad}}<ref name="himno y escudo" /><br />("Andalusia by itself, for Spain and humanity") | |||
|pop = 7,849,799 | |||
| anthem = "{{lang|es|]}}"<br />({{langx|en|"The White and Green flag"}})<br /> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-top:0.4em;"> | |||
|pop-rank = 1st | |||
]</div> | |||
|pop-date = 2005 | |||
| mapsize = | |||
|pop-percent = 17.9% | |||
| map_caption = Location of Andalusia in Spain | |||
|density = 89.95 | |||
| coordinates = {{coord|37.3|N|4.6|W|region:ES-AN_type:adm1st|display=inline,title}} | |||
|english-name = Andalusian | |||
| coor_pinpoint = | |||
|spanish-name = andaluz, andaluza | |||
| subdivision_type = ] | |||
|autonomy = ], ] | |||
| subdivision_name = ] | |||
|congress = 62 | |||
| formation = 1833 (]) | |||
|senate = 40 | |||
| statute = <!-- 28 February -->1981 (]) <br /> <!-- 18 February -->2007 (] – ''in force'') | |||
|president = ] (]) | |||
| congress_seats = 61 | |||
|president-link = List of Presidents of Andalusia | |||
| senate_seats = 41 | |||
|code = AN | |||
| official_lang = ] | |||
|website = | |||
| capital = ] | |||
| largest_city = ] | |||
| provinces = {{hlist|]|]|]|]|]|]|]|]}} | |||
| government_type = ] in a ] | |||
| governing_body = ] | |||
| government_footnotes = | |||
| legislature = Parliament of Andalusia | |||
| president = ] (]) | |||
| area_total_km2 = 87599 | |||
| area_footnotes = | |||
| area_rank = ] | |||
| currency = ] (]) | |||
| holiday = ] | |||
| population_as_of = 1 January 2023 | |||
| population_footnotes = | |||
| population_total = 8538376 | |||
| population_rank = ] <br /> 17.84% of Spain | |||
| population_density_km2 = auto | |||
| population_demonym = ]<br />{{lang|es|andaluz}}, {{lang|es|-za}}<ref>See, {{lang|es|2=}} {{Cite web |url=https://dle.rae.es/?id=2YzoCI1 |title=Diccionario de la lengua española - Edición del Tricentenario |access-date=14 January 2024 |archive-date=3 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503221750/https://dle.rae.es/?id=2YzoCI1 |url-status=bot: unknown }}. ].</ref> | |||
| GDP_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://ine.es/prensa/cre_2022.pdf |title=Contabilidad Regional de España |website=www.ine.es}}</ref> | |||
| GDP_rank = ] | |||
| GDP_year = 2022 | |||
| GDP_total = €180.224 billion | |||
| GDP_per_capita = €21,091 | |||
| GDP_per_capita_rank = ] | |||
| HDI_year = 2021 | |||
| HDI = 0.874<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/ |title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab |website=hdi.globaldatalab.org |language=en |access-date=24 June 2023 |archive-date=23 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923120638/https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
| HDI_rank = {{color|darkgreen|very high}} · ] | |||
| postal_code_type = ] | |||
| iso_code = ES-AN | |||
| timezone1 = ] (]+1) | |||
| utc_offset1 = | |||
| timezone1_DST = ] (]+2) | |||
| postal_code_prefix = {{hlist|04XXX (])|11XXX (])|14XXX (])|18XXX (])|21XXX (])|23XXX (])|29XXX (])|41XXX (])}} | |||
| telephone_code = ] | |||
| module = {{Infobox mapframe|wikidata=yes|zoom=5|height=300|width=|stroke-width=1|coord={{WikidataCoord|display=i}}}} | |||
| website = www.juntadeandalucia.es/ | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''Andalusia''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˌ|æ|n|d|ə|ˈ|l|uː|s|i|ə|,_|-|z|i|ə}} {{respell|AN|də|LOO|see|ə|,_-|zee|ə}}, {{IPAc-en|US|-|ʒ|(|i|)|ə|,_|-|ʃ|(|i|)|ə}} {{respell|-|zh(ee|)ə|,_-|sh(ee|)ə}};<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/amp/english/andalusia |title=Andalusia |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=8 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{dead link|date=September 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (US) and {{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Andalusia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322182035/https://www.lexico.com/definition/andalusia |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 March 2020 |title=Andalusia |dictionary=] UK English Dictionary |publisher=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Andalusia|access-date=8 March 2019}}</ref> {{langx|es|Andalucía}} {{IPA|es|andaluˈθi.a||Pronunciation_of_Andalusia_in_Spanish.ogg}}, {{IPA|es|-ˈsi.a|label=] also}}) is the southernmost ] in ], located in the south of the ], in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a ].<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609194157/http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/03/20/pdfs/A11871-11909.pdf |date=9 June 2011 }} Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía. Artículo 1: "Andalucía, como nacionalidad histórica y en el ejercicio del derecho de autogobierno que reconoce la Constitución, se constituye en Comunidad Autónoma en el marco de la unidad de la nación española y conforme al artículo 2 de la Constitución."</ref> The territory is divided into eight ]: ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. Its capital city is ], while the seat of ] is the city of ]. | |||
'''Andalusia''' (]: ''Andalucía'') is an ] of ]. Andalusia is the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain. Its capital is ]. | |||
Andalusia is |
Andalusia is immediately south of the autonomous communities of ] and ]; west of the autonomous community of ] and the ]; east of ] and the ]; and north of the ] and the ]. ] shares a {{convert|3/4|mi|order=flip}} land border with the Andalusian portion of the province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar. | ||
The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the ] and the ], consisting of the ] and ] Mountains, separated by the ]. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's ]. To the south, the geographic subregion of {{ill|Upper Andalusia|es|Alta Andalucía}} lies mostly within the ], while {{ill|Lower Andalusia|es|Baja Andalucía}} is in the ] of the valley of the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aguas.igme.es/igme/publica/libro20/pdf/lib20/c_guadal_1.pdf |title=Cuenca del Guadalquivir |access-date=11 April 2013 |archive-date=3 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103104639/http://aguas.igme.es/igme/publica/libro20/pdf/lib20/c_guadal_1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
The name ''Andalusia'' is derived from the ] word {{lang|ar-Latn|]}} ({{lang|ar|الأندلس}}), which in turn may be derived from the ], the ] or pre-Roman Iberian tribes.<ref name="Dozy2009">{{cite book |author=Reinhart Anne Pieter Dozy |title=Recherches Sur L'Histoire Et la Littérature de L'Espagne Pendant Le Moyen Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_dnewAACAAJ |year=2009 |publisher=BiblioBazaar |isbn=978-1-117-03148-4 |page=303}}</ref> The toponym {{lang|ar-Latn|al-Andalus}} is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new ]. These coins, called '']'', were inscribed in both ] and ].<ref name="MMOA">{{cite book |author=Michael L. Bates |title=Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-87099-636-8 |editor=] |page=384 |chapter=The Islamic Coinage of Spain |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLAryx8bC8UC&pg=PA384 |access-date=25 September 2017 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125709/https://books.google.com/books?id=lLAryx8bC8UC&pg=PA384#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Glick2005">{{cite book |author=Thomas F. Glick |title=Islamic And Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWqmebvcjj0C&pg=PR21 |year=2005 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-14771-3 |page=21 |access-date=25 September 2017 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125726/https://books.google.com/books?id=cWqmebvcjj0C&pg=PR21#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The region's history and culture have been influenced by the ], ], ]ns, ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. During the ], ] surpassed ]<ref>{{cite book |author1=Idris El Hareir |author2=Ravane Mbaye |title=The Spread of Islam Throughout the World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVYT4Kraym0C&pg=PA448 |year=2011 |publisher=UNESCO |isbn=978-92-3-104153-2 |page=448 |access-date=7 April 2020 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125819/https://books.google.com/books?id=qVYT4Kraym0C&pg=PA448#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Population>{{citation |title=Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution |author=J. Bradford De Long and Andrei Shleifer |journal=] |volume=36 |issue=2 |date=October 1993 |pages=671–702 |doi=10.1086/467294 |url=http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/pdf_files/Princes.pdf |citeseerx=10.1.1.164.4092 |s2cid=13961320 |access-date=7 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729053941/http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/pdf_files/Princes.pdf |archive-date=29 July 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> to be ]'s biggest city, and became the capital of ] and a prominent center of education and learning in the world, producing numerous philosophers and scientists.<ref name="Barton2009">{{cite book |author=Simon Barton |title=A History of Spain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AeAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225060109/https://books.google.com/books?id=AeAcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 December 2019 |date=30 June 2009 |publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education |isbn=978-1-137-01347-7 |pages=44–5}}</ref><ref name="Venable1894">{{cite book |author=Francis Preston Venable |title=A Short History of Chemistry |url=https://archive.org/details/ashorthistorych00venagoog |year=1894 |publisher=Heath |page=}}</ref> The ] conquered and settled the ] in the 13th century. The mountainous eastern part of the region (the ]) was subdued in the late 15th century. Atlantic-facing harbors prospered upon trade with the New World. Chronic inequalities in the social structure caused by uneven distribution of land property in large estates induced recurring episodes of upheaval and social unrest in the agrarian sector in the 19th and 20th centuries.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41166930 |title=Social Change, Inequalities and Conflicts in Andalusia |first=Francisco |last=Entrena |journal=Mediterranean Studies |volume=10 |year=2001 |pages=181–207 |publisher=] |jstor=41166930 |access-date=14 October 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125712/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41166930 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Andalusia has historically been an agricultural region, compared to the rest of Spain and the rest of Europe. Still, the growth of the community in the sectors of industry and services was above average in Spain and higher than many communities in the ]. The region has a rich culture and a strong identity. Many cultural phenomena that are seen internationally as distinctively Spanish are largely or entirely Andalusian in origin. These include ] and, to a lesser extent, ] and ] ], both of which are also prevalent in some other regions of Spain. | |||
Andalusia's hinterland is the hottest area of Europe, with ] and ] averaging above {{convert|36|C|F}} in summer high temperatures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=aemetblog |date=9 August 2018 |title=¿Por qué el valle del Guadalquivir es la "sartén" de España? |url=https://aemetblog.es/2018/08/09/por-que-el-valle-del-guadalquivir-es-la-sarten-de-espana/ |access-date=13 March 2024 |website=Aemetblog |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Why is the Guadalquivir valley one of the hottest inhabited places on the planet? (In spanish) |url=https://www.eldiario.es/andalucia/el_tiempo/valle-guadalquivir-lugares-habitados-calurosos-planeta_1_8269175.html |access-date=13 March 2024 |website=elDiario.es|date=4 September 2021 }}</ref> These high temperatures, typical of the Guadalquivir valley are usually reached between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. (local time),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://weatherspark.com/y/35285/Average-Weather-in-C%C3%B3rdoba-Spain-Year-Round |title=Climate and Average Weather Year Round in Córdoba (Spain) |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125711/https://weatherspark.com/y/35285/Average-Weather-in-C%C3%B3rdoba-Spain-Year-Round |url-status=live }}</ref> tempered by sea and mountain breezes afterwards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aemetblog.es/2018/08/09/por-que-el-valle-del-guadalquivir-es-la-sarten-de-espana/ |title=Why the Guadalquivir valley is the pan of Spain (in Spanish) |date=9 August 2018 |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125820/https://aemetblog.es/2018/08/09/por-que-el-valle-del-guadalquivir-es-la-sarten-de-espana/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, during ]s late evening temperatures can locally stay around {{convert|35|C|F}} until close to midnight, and daytime highs of over {{convert|40|C|F}} are common. | |||
==Etymology== | |||
{{main|Etymology of Andalusia}} | |||
] dated 1770. The Kingdoms of ], ] and ] are collectively referred to under the name ''Andalucía'', while the ] appears under its individual name.]] | |||
Its present form is derived from the Arabic name for Muslim Iberia, "Al-Andalus".<ref>{{citation |last=Mokhtar |first=G |title=Ancient Civilizations of Africa |publisher=University of California Press |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-520-06697-7 |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDxMF-6UdCQC&q=andalusia |page=281 |access-date=16 October 2020 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114125714/https://books.google.com/books?id=aDxMF-6UdCQC&q=andalusia#v=snippet&q=andalusia&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Burke |first=Ulick Ralph |title=A History of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Death of Ferdinand the Catholic |year=1900 |publisher=Year Books |isbn=978-1-4437-4054-8 |url=http://www.mocavo.com/A-History-of-Spain-From-the-Earliest-Times-to-the-Death-of-Ferdinand-the-Catholic/137368/12?browse=true#449 |volume=1 |page=410 |access-date=21 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821190214/http://www.mocavo.com/A-History-of-Spain-From-the-Earliest-Times-to-the-Death-of-Ferdinand-the-Catholic/137368/12?browse=true#449 |archive-date=21 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=González Jiménez |first=Manuel |title=Sobre los orígenes históricos de Andalucía |journal=Boletín de la Real academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras: Minervae baeticae |year=2012 |issue=40 |page=258 |url=http://institucional.us.es/revistas/rasbl/40/art_17.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://institucional.us.es/revistas/rasbl/40/art_17.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |issn=0214-4395}}</ref> The ] of the name "Al-Andalus" is disputed,<ref name=Bossong2002/> and the extent of Iberian territory encompassed by the name has changed over the centuries.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Stearns |first=Justin |title=Representing and Remembering al-Andalus: Some Historical Considerations Regarding the End of Time and the Making of Nostalgia |journal=Medieval Encounters |date=1 December 2009 |volume=15 |series=Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture Encounters in Confluence and Dialogue |issue=2 |page=358 |url=https://www.academia.edu/274992 |doi=10.1163/157006709X458891 |publisher=Brill NV |location=Department of Religion, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT |access-date=1 November 2017 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130217/https://www.academia.edu/274992 |url-status=live }}</ref> Traditionally it has been assumed to be derived from the name of the '']''. Since the 1980s, a number of proposals have challenged this contention. Halm, in 1989, derived the name from a Gothic term, ''*{{lang|got|landahlauts}}'',<ref name="Halm1989">{{cite journal |last=Halm |first=Heinz |title=Al-Andalus und Gothica Sors |journal=Der Islam |year=1989 |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=252–263 |doi=10.1515/islm.1989.66.2.252 |s2cid=161971416}}</ref> | |||
and in 2002, Bossong suggested its derivation from a pre-Roman substrate.<ref name=Bossong2002>{{cite journal |last=Bossong |first=Georg |title=Der Name al-Andalus: neue Überlegungen zu einem alten Problem |journal=Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs |year=2002 |volume=141 |series=Sounds and systems: studies in structure and change. |page=149 |url=http://www.rose.uzh.ch/seminar/personen/bossong/boss_bask_120.pdf |access-date=8 September 2013 |editor1-first=David |editor1-last=Restle |editor2-first=Dietmar |editor2-last=Zaefferer |trans-title=The Name al-Andalus: Revisiting an Old Problem |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |location=Berlin |language=de |issn=1861-4302 |quote=Only a few years after the Islamic conquest of Spain, ''Al-Andalus'' appears in coin inscriptions as the Arabic equivalent of ''Hispania''. The traditionally held view that the etymology of this name has to do with the Vandals is shown to have no serious foundation. The phonetic, morphosyntactic, and also historical problems connected with this etymology are too numerous. Moreover, the existence of this name in various parts of central and northern Spain proves that ''Al-Andalus'' cannot be derived from this ]. It was the original name of the Punta Marroquí cape near Tarifa; very soon, it became generalized to designate the whole Peninsula. Undoubtedly, the name is of Pre-Indo-European origin. The parts of this compound (''anda'' and ''luz'') are frequent in the indigenous toponymy of the Iberian Peninsula. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627064440/http://www.rose.unizh.ch/seminar/personen/bossong/boss_bask_120.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2008}}</ref> | |||
The Spanish place name ''Andalucía'' (immediate source of the English ''Andalusia'') was introduced into the ]s in the 13th century under the form ''el Andalucía''.<ref name="Jiménez1998">{{cite book |author=Manuel González Jiménez |title=ANDALUCIA A DEBATE. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GvX_CQAMCIC&pg=PA16 |date=1 January 1998 |publisher=Universidad de Sevilla |isbn=978-84-472-0485-4 |pages=16–17 |access-date=14 November 2015 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130311/https://books.google.com/books?id=4GvX_CQAMCIC&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The name was adopted to refer to those territories still under Moorish rule, and generally south of ] and ], and corresponding with the former Roman province hitherto called ] in Latin sources. This was a Castilianization of ''Al-Andalusiya'', the ] form of the Arabic language ''al-Andalus'', the name given by the Arabs to all of the Iberian territories under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492. The etymology of ''al-Andalus'' is itself somewhat debated (see ]), but in fact it entered the Arabic language before this area came under Moorish rule. | |||
Like the Arabic term ''al-Andalus'', in historical contexts the Spanish term ''Andalucía'' or the English term ''Andalusia'' do not necessarily refer to the exact territory designated by these terms today. Initially, the term referred exclusively to territories under Muslim control. Later, it was applied to some of the last Iberian territories to be regained from the Muslims, though not always to exactly the same ones.<ref name="Jiménez1998"/> In the '']'' (also known as the '']'') of ], written in the second half of the 13th century, the term ''Andalucía'' is used with three different meanings: | |||
# As a literal translation of the Arabic ''al-Ándalus'' when Arabic texts are quoted. | |||
# To designate the territories the Christians had regained by that time in the ] valley and in the Kingdoms of ] and ]. In a document from 1253, Alfonso X styled himself ''Rey de Castilla, León y de toda Andalucía'' ("King of Castile, León and all of Andalusia"). | |||
# To designate the territories the Christians had regained by that time in the Guadalquivir valley until that date (the Kingdoms of ], ] and ] – the Kingdom of Granada was incorporated in 1492). This was the most common significance in the ] and ].<ref name="laidentidadandaluza">{{cite book |last=Domínguez Ortiz |first=Antonio |title=La identidad andaluza |year=1976 |language=es |publisher=Universidad de Granada |location=Granada Puzada}}</ref> | |||
From an administrative point of view, Granada remained separate for many years even after the completion of the ''Reconquista''<ref name="laidentidadandaluza" /> due, above all, to its emblematic character as the last territory regained, and as the seat of the important ], a ]. Still, the reconquest and repopulation of Granada was accomplished largely by people from the three preexisting Christian kingdoms of Andalusia, and Granada came to be considered a fourth kingdom of Andalusia.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ladero Quesada |first=Miguel Ángel |title=Sobre la génesis de la identidad andaluza. Andalucía entre Oriente y Occidente (1236–1492) |language=es |year=1867 |publisher=Córdoba (Diputación Provincial) Actas del V Coloquio de Historia Medieval de Andalucía}}</ref> The often-used expression "]" dates back in Spanish at least to the mid-18th century.<ref>For example, ] was ''Intendente del Ejército de los cuatro reinos de Andalucía'', "] of the Army of the four kingdoms of Andalusia". {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101234600/http://www.fundaciones.upo.es/municipios/biografia.htm |date=1 January 2010 }}, Fundación Pablo de Olavide. Retrieved 7 December 2009.</ref><ref>In Gelo del Cabildo's 1751 ''Respuestas generales'', part of the write-up of the census ], José María de Mendoza y Guzmán is described as ''visitador general'' of the ''Rentas Provinciales de los cuatro Reinos de Andalucía''. See {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070513032901/http://pares.mcu.es/Catastro/ |date=13 May 2007 }} on the site of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Enter "Gelo" in the search box "Buscador Localidades" and look at image number 3. <!-- Access date unspecified; inaccessible 2009-12-06 --></ref> | |||
==Symbols== | |||
{{Main|Emblem of Andalusia|Flag of Andalusia}} | |||
], executed in ]s, located on the avenue in ] named in his honour.]] | |||
The Andalusian emblem shows the figure of ] and two ]s between the two ] that tradition situates on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar. An inscription below, superimposed on an image of the ] reads ''Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad'' ("Andalusia for herself, Spain and Humanity"). Over the two columns is a semicircular arch in the colours of the flag of Andalusia, with the ] words ''Dominator Hercules Fundator'' (Lord Hercules is the Founder) superimposed.<ref name="himno y escudo">{{cite web |title=Himno y escudo |publisher=Junta de Andalucia |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/28f2009/himno.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015185710/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/28f2009/himno.html |archive-date=15 October 2012}}</ref> | |||
The official flag of Andalusia consists of three equal horizontal stripes, coloured green, white, and green respectively; the Andalusian coat of arms is superimposed on the central stripe.<ref name=Junta2019>{{cite web |title=Símbolos de Andalucía |url=https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/sobre-junta/simbolos.html |publisher=Junta de Andalucía |access-date=9 August 2019}}</ref> Its design was overseen by ]<ref name="Gill">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGY2fSXko5kC&pg=PT216 |title=Andalucia, a cultural history |last=Gill |first=James |publisher=Oxford University Press US |page=251 |isbn=978-0-19-537610-4 |access-date=11 December 2009 |date=9 December 2008 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130217/https://books.google.com/books?id=gGY2fSXko5kC&pg=PT216#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> and approved in the ] (a 1918 gathering of ] at ]). Blas Infante considered these to have been the colours most used in regional symbols throughout the region's history. According to him, the green came in particular from the ] of the ] and represented the call for a gathering of the populace. The white symbolised pardon in the ], interpreted in European heraldry as parliament or peace. Other writers have justified the colours differently, with some Andalusian nationalists referring to them as the ''Arbonaida'', meaning white-and-green in ], a ] that was spoken in the region in Muslim times. Nowadays, the Andalusian government states that the colours of the flag evoke the Andalusian landscape as well as values of purity and hope for the future.<ref name=Junta2019/> | |||
The ] of Andalusia was composed by José del Castillo Díaz (director of the Municipal Band of Seville, commonly known as Maestro Castillo) with lyrics by Blas Infante.<ref name="Gill"/> The music was inspired by ''Santo Dios'', a popular religious song sung at harvest time by peasants and day labourers in the provinces of Málaga, Seville, and Huelva. Blas Infante brought the song to Maestro Castillo's attention; Maestro Castillo adapted and harmonized the traditional melody. The lyrics appeal to the Andalusians to mobilise and demand ''tierra y libertad'' ("land and liberty") by way of ] and a statute of autonomy within Spain. | |||
The ] voted unanimously in 1983 that the preamble to the ] recognise Blas Infante as the Father of the Andalusian Nation (''Padre de la Patria Andaluza''),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCIcK3DIsIYC&q=Padre+del+Patria+Blas+Infante&pg=PA28 |title=La casa de Blas Infante en Coria del Río |publisher=Centro de Estudios Andaluces |last=Fernandez-Montesinas |first=Alberto Egea |isbn=978-84-609-2545-3 |year=2004 |access-date=4 October 2020 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130220/https://books.google.com/books?id=gCIcK3DIsIYC&q=Padre+del+Patria+Blas+Infante&pg=PA28#v=snippet&q=Padre%20del%20Patria%20Blas%20Infante&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> which was reaffirmed in the reformed Statute of Autonomy submitted to popular ] 18 February 2007. The preamble of the present 2007 Statute of Autonomy says that Article 2 of the present ] recognises Andalusia as a ]. Later, in its articulation, it speaks of Andalusia as a "historic nationality" (Spanish: ''nacionalidad histórica''). It also cites the 1919 Andalusianist Manifesto of Córdoba describing Andalusia as a "national reality" (''realidad nacional''), but does not endorse that formulation. Article 1 of the earlier 1981 Statute of Autonomy defined it simply as a "nationality" (''nacionalidad'').<ref name="citing 1919">''El Manifiesto andalucista de Córdoba describió a Andalucía como realidad nacional en 1919, cuyo espíritu los andaluces encauzaron plenamente a través del proceso de autogobierno recogido en nuestra Carta Magna. En 1978 los andaluces dieron un amplio respaldo al consenso constitucional. Hoy, la Constitución, en su artículo 2, reconoce a Andalucía como una nacionalidad en el marco de la unidad indisoluble de la nación española.'' ], in Spanish.</ref> | |||
The national holiday, ], is celebrated on 28 February,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuEo8-2KOf0C&q=D%C3%ADa+de+Andaluc%C3%ADa&pg=PA77 |title=Andalucia |publisher=Lonely Planet |year=2007 |last1=Noble |first1=John |last2=Forsyth |first2=Susan |last3=Maric |first3=Vesna |page=77 |isbn=978-1-74059-973-3 |access-date=11 December 2009 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130233/https://books.google.com/books?id=PuEo8-2KOf0C&q=D%C3%ADa+de+Andaluc%C3%ADa&pg=PA77 |url-status=live }}</ref> commemorating the 1980 autonomy referendum. | |||
The honorific title of '']'' ("Favourite Son of Andalusia") is granted by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia to those whose exceptional merits benefited Andalusia, for work or achievements in natural, social, or political science. It is the highest distinction given by the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Junta de Andalucía - Hija Predilecta o Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía |url=https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/presidenciaadministracionpublicaeinterior/areas/honores-distinciones/hijos-predilectos.html |access-date=8 November 2020 |website=Junta de Andalucía |language=es}}</ref> | |||
==Geography== | |||
The Sevillian historian ] wrote that: | |||
{{Blockquote|one must seek the essence of Andalusia in its geographic reality on the one hand, and on the other in the awareness of its inhabitants. From the geographic point of view, the whole of the southern lands is too vast and varied to be embraced as a single unit. In reality there are not two, but three Andalusias: the ], the Valley ]] and the ]<ref>{{cite book |last=Domínguez Ortiz |first=Antonio |title=La identidad andaluza |year=1976 |language=es |publisher=Universidad de Granada |location=Granada |quote=hay que buscar la esencia de Andalucía en su realidad geográfica, de una parte, y de otra, en la conciencia de sus habitantes. Desde el punto de vista geográfico, el conjunto de las tierras meridionales es demasiado amplio y variado para englobarlas a todas en una unidad. En realidad hay no dos, sino tres Andalucías: la Sierra Morena, el Valle y la Penibética}}</ref>}} | |||
===Location=== | |||
Andalusia has a surface area of {{convert|87597|km2|sqmi}}, 17.3% of the territory of Spain. Andalusia alone is comparable in extent and in the variety of its terrain to any of several of the smaller European countries. To the east is the ]; to the west ] and the ] (]); to the north the ] constitutes the border with the ]; to the south, the ]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Gibraltar |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/233245/Gibraltar |encyclopedia=] |access-date=18 August 2009 |quote=Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom and is self-governing in all matters but defence. |first=Vicente |last=Rodriguez |date=22 July 1998 |publisher=] |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130730/https://www.britannica.com/place/Gibraltar |url-status=live }}</ref> ] of ] and the ] separate it from ]. | |||
===Climate=== | |||
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Andalusia is home to the hottest and driest climates in Spain, with yearly average rainfall around {{convert|150|mm|in}} in ], as well as some of the wettest ones, with yearly average rainfall above {{convert|2000|mm|in}} in inland ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Valores climatológicos normales - Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - AEMET. Gobierno de España |url=http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos |publisher=] |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=es |archive-date=1 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101180444/http://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos |url-status=live }}</ref> In the west, weather systems sweeping in from the Atlantic ensure that it is relatively wet and humid in the winter, with some areas receiving copious amounts. Contrary to what many people think, as a whole, the region enjoys above-average yearly rainfall in the context of Spain.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iberianature.com/regions/andalucia/climate-of-andalusia-andalucia/ |title=Climate of Andalusia |website=www.iberianature.com |access-date=13 February 2017 |archive-date=28 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028172826/http://www.iberianature.com/regions/andalucia/climate-of-andalusia-andalucia/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Andalusia sits at a latitude between 36° and 38° 44' N, in the warm-temperate region. In general, it experiences a ], with dry summers influenced by the ], but subject to occasional torrential rains and extremely hot temperatures.<ref name="CMA de la Junta de Andalucía" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/site/web/menuitem.a5664a214f73c3df81d8899661525ea0/?vgnextoid=ad53b44325234010VgnVCM1000000624e50aRCRD&vgnextchannel=3259b19c7acf2010VgnVCM1000001625e50aRCRD&lr=lang_es |title=Los tipos climáticos en Andalucía |author=Junta de Andalucía |publisher=Consejería del Medio Ambiente |access-date=10 December 2009}}</ref> In the winter, the tropical anticyclones move south, allowing cold polar fronts to penetrate the region. Still, within Andalusia there is considerable climatic variety. From the extensive coastal plains one may pass to the valley of the Guadalquivir, barely above sea level, then to the highest altitudes in the Iberian peninsula in the peaks of the ]. In a mere {{cvt|50|km|mi}} one can pass from the subtropical coast of the province of Granada to the snowy peaks of ]. Andalusia also includes both the dry ] in the province of Almería and the ] in the province of Cádiz, which experiences one of highest rainfall in Spain.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/html/adjuntos/2008/02/11/0004/altamontana.html |title=Ecosistemas naturales de Andalucía - Alta montaña |website=Junta de Andalucía |language=es |year=2008 |access-date=2 February 2009 |archive-date=25 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625024646/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/html/adjuntos/2008/02/11/0004/altamontana.html}} | |||
</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://abodeinternational.com/weather-climate-andalusia/ |title=The type of climate in Andalusia |access-date=4 October 2008 |publisher=Consejería de Medio Ambiente (Junta de Andalucía) |language=en |archive-date=22 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322204819/http://abodeinternational.com/weather-climate-andalusia/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Meteorología">{{Cite web |last=Meteorología |first=Agencia Estatal de |title=Valores climatológicos normales - Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - AEMET. Gobierno de España |url=https://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos |access-date=1 May 2024 |website=www.aemet.es |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Annual rainfall in the Sierra de Grazalema has been measured as high as {{convert|4346|mm|in}} in 1963, the highest ever recorded for any location in Iberia.<ref name=rain>{{cite web |url=http://www.aemet.es/es/elclima/datosclimatologicos/efemerides_extremos |title=Valores extremos |access-date=4 October 2008 |author=AEMET (Agencia Estatal de Meteorología) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006000904/http://www.aemet.es/es/elclima/datosclimatologicos/efemerides_extremos |archive-date=6 October 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Andalusia is also home to the driest place in ], the ], with only {{convert|156|mm|in}} of rain per year.<ref name="DOC015">Capel Molina, J.J. (1995) ''Mapa pluviométrico de España Peninsular y Baleares (en el periodo internacional 1961-1990) Investigaciones Geográficas nº 13: 29-466ISSN 0213-4691'' Idioma: español. Acceso: 3 July 2009.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=21 May 2022 |title=Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park |url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149857/cabo-de-gata-nijar-natural-park |access-date=10 February 2024 |website=earthobservatory.nasa.gov |language=en}}</ref> | |||
In general, as one goes from west to east, away from the Atlantic, there is less precipitation.<ref name=rain/> "Wet Andalusia" includes most of the highest points in the region, above all the Sierra de Grazalema but also the ] in western Málaga. The valley of the Guadalquivir has moderate rainfall. The ] in Almería has less than {{convert|300|mm|in}} annually.<ref name="Meteorología"/> Much of "dry Andalusia" has more than 300 sunny days a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bargainandalucia.dk/tvangssalg |title=300+ sunny days a year |access-date=12 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150728094728/http://www.bargainandalucia.dk/ |archive-date=28 July 2015}}</ref> | |||
The average temperature in Andalusia throughout the year is over {{convert|16|°C|°F}}. Averages in the cities range from {{convert|15.1|°C|°F}} in ] to {{convert|19.2|°C|°F}} in ]. However, a small region on the Mediterranean coast of ] and ] provinces have average annual temperature over {{Convert|20|C|F}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Meteorología |first=Agencia Estatal de |title=Valores climatológicos normales - Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - AEMET. Gobierno de España |url=https://www.aemet.es/es/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=www.aemet.es |language=es}}</ref> Much of the Guadalquivir valley and the Mediterranean coast has an average of about {{convert|18|°C|°F}}. The coldest month is January when ] at the foot of the Sierra Nevada experiences an average temperature of {{convert|6.4|°C|°F}}. The hottest are July and August, with an average temperature of {{convert|28.5|°C|°F}} for Andalusia as a whole. ] is the hottest provincial capital, followed by ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.andalucia.org/datos-practicos/clima/?set_language=en/ |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160517102632/http://www.andalucia.org/datos-practicos/clima/?set_language=en/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 May 2016 |title=Average temperature – Average water temperature – Hours of sunlight per year |author=Junta de Andalucía |publisher=Official Tourism Website of Andalucía |access-date=10 December 2009}}</ref> | |||
The Guadalquivir valley has experienced some of the highest temperatures recorded in Europe, with a maximum of {{convert|47.6|°C|°F}} recorded at ], Córdoba (14 August 2021).<ref>{{Cite web |last=aemetblog |date=2 August 2022 |title=14 de agosto de 2021,se batió el récord de temperatura más alta registrada en España. |url=https://aemetblog.es/2022/08/02/14-de-agosto-de-2021se-batio-el-record-de-temperatura-mas-alta-registrada-en-espana/ |access-date=19 March 2024 |website=Aemetblog |language=es}}</ref> The mountains of Granada and Jaén have the coldest temperatures in southern Iberia, but do not reach continental extremes (and, indeed are surpassed by some mountains in northern Spain). In the cold snap of January 2005, ] (Jaén) experienced a temperature of {{convert|-21|°C|°F}} and the ] resort at ]—the southernmost ski resort in Europe—dropped to {{convert|-18|°C|°F}}. Sierra Nevada Natural Park has Iberia's lowest average annual temperature, ({{convert|3.9|°C|°F|disp=or}} at Pradollano) and its peaks remain snowy practically year-round. | |||
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|+Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for selected cities in Andalusia<ref name="Spanish Climate Normals or Averages">{{cite web |url=http://www.aemet.es/en/serviciosclimaticos/datosclimatologicos/valoresclimatologicos?k=and |title=Standard Climate Values, Andalucía |publisher=Aemet.es |access-date=2 March 2015}}</ref> | |||
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|| {{convert|24.1|C|1}}/ {{convert|15.3|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|31.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|22.4|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|24.5|C|1}}/ {{convert|16.3|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|16.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|9.4|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|19.9|C|1}}/ {{convert|13.7|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|27.9|C|1}}/ {{convert|22.0|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|23.4|C|1}}/ {{convert|17.3|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|14.9|C|1}}/ {{convert|3.6|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|22.8|C|1}}/ {{convert|9.3|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|36.9|C|1}}/ {{convert|19.0|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|25.1|C|1}}/ {{convert|13.0|C|1}} | |||
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| ] | |||
|| {{convert|12.6|C|1}}/ {{convert|1.1|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|19.5|C|1}}/ {{convert|6.8|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|34.2|C|1}}/ {{convert|17.7|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|22.6|C|1}}/ {{convert|10.1|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|16.2|C|1}}/ {{convert|5.9|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|22.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|10.3|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|32.7|C|1}}/ {{convert|18.9|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|24.9|C|1}}/ {{convert|14.1|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|12.1|C|1}}/ {{convert|5.1|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|19.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|10.0|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|33.7|C|1}}/ {{convert|21.4|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|21.9|C|1}}/ {{convert|13.8|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|16.2|C|1}}/ {{convert|5.2|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|22.2|C|1}}/ {{convert|9.8|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|33.5|C|1}}/ {{convert|18.7|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|25.5|C|1}}/ {{convert|13.7|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|21.4|C|1}}/ {{convert|11.1|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|30.8|C|1}}/ {{convert|21.1|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|24.1|C|1}}/ {{convert|15.0|C|1}} | |||
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|| {{convert|16.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|5.7|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|23.4|C|1}}/ {{convert|11.1|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|36.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|20.3|C|1}} | |||
|| {{convert|26.0|C|1}}/ {{convert|14.4|C|1}} | |||
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===Terrain=== | |||
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] peak is the highest point of continental Europe outside the Caucasus Mountains and the Alps. It is part of the ] range.]] | |||
Mountain ranges affect climate, the network of rivers, soils and their erosion, bioregions, and even human economies insofar as they rely on natural resources.<ref>{{cite book |last=Moreira |first=J.M. |chapter=Las grandes unidades del relieve andaluz |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |language=es |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> The Andalusian terrain offers a range of altitudes and slopes. Andalusia has the Iberian peninsula's highest mountains and nearly 15 percent of its terrain over {{convert|1000|m|ft}}. The picture is similar for areas under {{convert|100|m|ft}} (with the Baetic Depression), and for the variety of slopes. | |||
The Atlantic coast is overwhelmingly beach and gradually sloping coasts; the Mediterranean coast has many cliffs, above all in the Malagan ] and in Granada and Almería.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ojeda |first=J. |chapter=espn |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |language=es |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> This asymmetry divides the region naturally into {{ill|Upper Andalusia|es|Alta Andalucía}} (two mountainous areas) and {{ill|Lower Andalusia|es|Baja Andalucía}} (the broad basin of the Guadalquivir).<ref name="fisicoambiental">{{cite journal |last=López |first=Antonio |title=Los grandes temas del sistema físico-ambiental de Andalucía y sus implicaciones humanas |year=2002 |journal=Revista de estudios regionales: XII Jornadas de Estudios Andaluces. |number=63 |issn=0213-7585 |pages=17–63 |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=268326 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
The ] separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's ]. Although sparsely populated, this is not a particularly high range, and its highest point, the {{convert|1323|m|ft|adj=on}} peak of La ] in the ], lies outside of Andalusia. Within the Sierra Morena, the ] of ] forms a natural frontier between Castile and Andalusia. | |||
The ] consists of the parallel mountain ranges of the ] near the Mediterranean coast and the ] inland, separated by the ]. The Cordillera Subbética is quite discontinuous, offering many passes that facilitate transportation, but the Penibético forms a strong barrier between the Mediterranean coast and the interior.<ref>"Bases para la Ordenación del Territorio de Andalucía", 1990, p. 126, in Spanish.</ref> The Sierra Nevada, part of the Cordillera Penibética in the province of Granada, has the highest peaks in Iberia: El ] at {{convert|3478|m|ft}} and El ] at {{convert|3392|m|ft}}. | |||
Lower Andalusia, the ], the basin of the Guadalquivir, lies between these two mountainous areas. It is a nearly flat territory, open to the ] in the southwest. Throughout history, this has been the most populous part of Andalusia. | |||
===Hydrography=== | |||
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Andalusia has rivers that flow into both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Flowing to the Atlantic are the ], ]-], ], ], and ]. Flowing to the Mediterranean are the ], ], ], ], ] (also known as the Almería) and ]. Of these, the ] is the longest in Andalusia and fifth longest on the Iberian peninsula, at {{convert|657|km|mi}}.<ref>{{cite book |last=Del Moral |first=L. |chapter=El agua en Andalucía |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |language=es |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> | |||
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The rivers of the Atlantic basin are characteristically long, run through mostly flat terrain, and have broad river valleys. As a result, at their mouths are ] and ]s, such as the marshes of ] in the delta of the Guadalquivir, and ]s of the Odiel. In contrast, the rivers of the Mediterranean Basin are shorter, more seasonal, and make a precipitous descent from the mountains of the Baetic Cordillera. Their estuaries are small, and their valleys are less suitable for agriculture. Also, being in the ] of the Baetic Cordillera means that they receive a lesser volume of water.<ref name="fisicoambiental" /> | |||
The following hydrographic basins can be distinguished in Andalusia. On the Atlantic side are the Guadalquivir basin; the Andalusian Atlantic Basin with the sub-basins Guadalete-Barbate and Tinto-Odiel; and the Guadiana basin. On the Mediterranean side is the Andalusian Mediterranean Basin and the upper portion of the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agenciadelagua/portalweb/sites/aaa/portal/index.jsp?lang=es&perfil=org&opcion=listadoTematico&tema=/Agencia_Andaluza_Del_Agua/&apartado=organizacion&desplegar=/Agencia_Andaluza_Del_Agua/ |title=La nueva administración del agua en Andalucía |access-date=4 October 2008 |publisher=Agencia Andaluza del Agua (Consejería de Medio Ambiente) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212204748/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agenciadelagua/portalweb/sites/aaa/portal/index.jsp?lang=es |archive-date=12 December 2008}}</ref> | |||
===Soils=== | |||
The soils of Andalusia can be divided into three large areas: the ], ], and the ] and the ].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Moreira |first=J.M. |title=Suelos y degradación edáfica |journal=Carel: Carmona: Revista de estudios locales |number=3 |issn=1696-4284 |pages=971–986 |language=es |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/fichero_articulo?codigo=2328574&orden=84885}}</ref> | |||
The Sierra Morena, due to its morphology and the acidic content of its rocks, developed principally relatively poor, shallow soils, suitable only for forests. In the valleys and in some areas where ] is present, deeper soils allowed farming of cereals suitable for livestock. The more complicated morphology of the Baetic Cordillera makes it more heterogeneous, with the most heterogeneous soils in Andalusia. Very roughly, in contrast to the Sierra Morena, a predominance of ] (alkaline) materials in the Cordillera Subbética, combined with a hilly landscape, generates deeper soils with greater agricultural capacity, suitable to the cultivation of olives.<ref>{{cite book |author=Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca |chapter=Suelos |title=Atlas Agrario y Pesquero de Andalucía |year=1992 |publisher=Junta de Andalucía |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Finally, the Baetic Depression and the Surco Intrabético have deep, rich soils, with great agricultural capacity. In particular, the ] soils of the ] valley and plain of ] have a ]y texture and are particularly suitable for intensive irrigated crops.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/web/Bloques_Tematicos/Estado_Y_Calidad_De_Los_Recursos_Naturales/Suelo/Criterios_pdf/Tipologia.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/web/Bloques_Tematicos/Estado_Y_Calidad_De_Los_Recursos_Naturales/Suelo/Criterios_pdf/Tipologia.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Tipología de los suelos en la comunidad andaluza |access-date=21 July 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente de Andalucía |language=es}}</ref> In the hilly areas of the countryside, there is a double dynamic: the depressions have filled with older lime-rich material, developing the deep, rich, dark ] soils the Spanish call '']'', or ''tierras negras andaluzas'', excellent for dryland farming. In other zones, the whiter ''albariza'' provides an excellent soil for ]s.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Perea |author2=González, P. |title=Origen, clasificación y caracterización de los suelos de la Campiña de Carmona |year=2005 |journal=Carel: Carmona: Revista de estudios locales |number=3 |issn=1696-4284 |pages=971–986 |language=es |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/fichero_articulo?codigo=2328574&orden=84885}}</ref> | |||
Despite their marginal quality, the poorly consolidated soils of the sandy coastline of Huelva and Almería have been successfully used in recent decades for hothouse cultivation under clear plastic of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and other fruits. | |||
===Flora=== | |||
] of Andalusia]] | |||
Biogeographically, Andalusia forms part of the Western Mediterranean subregion of the ], which falls within the ]. Five ] lie, in whole or in part, within Andalusia: along much of the Atlantic coast, the Lusitanian-Andalusian littoral or Andalusian Atlantic littoral; in the north, the southern portion of the Luso-Extremaduran floristic province; covering roughly half of the region, the Baetic floristic province; and in the extreme east, the Almerian portion of the Almerian-Murcian floristic province and (coinciding roughly with the upper Segura basin) a small portion of the Castilian-Maestrazgan-Manchegan floristic province. These names derive primarily from past or present political geography: "Luso" and "Lusitanian" from ], one of three ]s in Iberia, most of the others from present-day Spanish provinces, and ] being a historical region of northern ]. | |||
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In broad terms, the typical vegetation of Andalusia is ], characterized by ]y ] ], adapted to the long, dry summers. The dominant species of the ] is the holly oak ('']''). Also abundant are cork oak ('']''), various ]s, and Spanish fir ('']''). Due to cultivation, ] (''Olea europaea'') and ] (''Prunus dulcis'') trees also abound. The dominant ] is composed of thorny and aromatic woody species, such as ] (''Rosmarinus officinalis''), ] (''Thymus''), and '']''. In the wettest areas with ], the most abundant species are the oak and cork oak, and the cultivated '']''. In the woodlands, leafy ]s of genus '']'' (poplars, aspens, cottonwoods) and '']'' (elms) are also abundant; poplars are cultivated in the plains of Granada.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ibarra |first=P. |chapter=Las formaciones vegetales de Andalucía |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |language=es |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> | |||
The Andalusian woodlands have been much altered by human settlement, the use of nearly all of the best land for farming, and frequent ]s. The degraded forests become shrubby and combustible ]. Extensive areas have been planted with non-] trees such as pines. There is now a clear conservation policy for the remaining forests, which survive almost exclusively in the mountains. | |||
===Fauna=== | |||
] (''Lynx pardinus'')]] | |||
The ] of Andalusia extends to its fauna as well. More than 400 of the 630 vertebrate species extant in Spain can be found in Andalusia. Spanning the Mediterranean and Atlantic basins, and adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar, Andalusia is on the migratory route of many of the numerous flocks of birds that travel annually from Europe to Africa and back.<ref> | |||
{{cite book |last=Rubio |first=J.M. |chapter=La fauna andaluza |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |language=es |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> | |||
The Andalusian wetlands host a rich variety of birds. Some are of African origin, such as the ] (''Fulica cristata''), the ] (''Porphyrio porphyrio''), and the ] (''Phoenicopterus roseus''). Others originate in Northern Europe, such as the ] (''Anser anser''). ] (raptors) include the ] (''Aquila adalberti''), the ] (''Gyps fulvus''), and both the ] and ] (''Milvus migrans'' and ''Milvus milvus''). | |||
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Among the ]s, are several ] (Cervidae) species, notably the ] (''Dama dama'') and ] (''Capreolus capreolus''); the ] (''Ovis aries musimon''), a feral sheep; and the ] (''Capra pyrenaica'', which despite its scientific name is no longer found in the ]). The Spanish ibex has recently been losing ground to the ] (''Ammotragus lervia''), an ] from Africa, introduced for hunting in the 1970s. Among the small herbivores are rabbits—especially the ] (''Oryctolagus cuniculus'')—which form the most important part of the diet of the carnivorous species of the Mediterranean woodlands. | |||
The large ]s such as the ] (''Canis lupus signatus'') and the ] (''Lynx pardinus'') are quite threatened, and are limited to the Sierra de Andújar, inside of Sierra Morena, Doñana and Despeñaperros. Stocks of the ] (''Sus scrofa''), on the other hand, have been well preserved because they are popular with hunters. More abundant and in varied situations of conservation are such smaller carnivores as ]s, dogs, foxes, the ] (''Meles meles''), the ] (''Mustela putorius''), the ] (''Mustela nivalis''), the ] (''Felis silvestris''), the ] (''Genetta genetta''), and the ] (''Herpestes ichneumon'').<ref> | |||
{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/contenidoExterno/Pub_aula_verde/aulaverde31/patrimv.html |title=Patrimonio vivo: la fauna andaluza |access-date=4 October 2008 |publisher=Consejería de Medio Ambiente (Junta de Andalucía) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606125530/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/contenidoExterno/Pub_aula_verde/aulaverde31/patrimv.html |archive-date=6 June 2009}}</ref> | |||
Other notable species are '']'' (a variety of ]), '']'' (a ]), and the endemic (and endangered) fish '']''. | |||
===Protected areas=== | |||
]s and ] in Andalusia.]] | |||
Andalusia has many unique ecosystems. In order to preserve these areas in a manner compatible with both conservation and economic exploitation, many of the most representative ecosystems have been given protected status.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cma.junta-andalucia.es/medioambiente/site/web/menuitem.48ed6f0384107256b935619561525ea0/?vgnextoid=ab39185968f04010VgnVCM1000001625e50aRCRD&vgnextchannel=3259b19c7acf2010VgnVCM1000001625e50aRCRD&lr=lang_es |title=Espacios Protegidos |access-date=8 September 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente (Junta de Andalucía)}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} | |||
</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mulero |first=A. |chapter=Los espacios protegidos en Andalucía |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |language=es |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> | |||
The various levels of protection are encompassed within the Network of Protected Natural Spaces of Andalusia (Red de Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Andalucía, RENPA) which integrates all protected natural spaces located in Andalusia, whether they are protected at the level of the local community, the autonomous community of Andalusia, the Spanish state, or by international conventions. RENPA consists of 150 protected spaces, consisting of two ], 24 ], 21 periurban parks (on the fringes of cities or towns), 32 natural sites, two protected countrysides, 37 natural monuments, 28 nature reserves, and four concerted nature reserves (in which a government agency coordinates with the owner of the property for its management), all part of the ]'s ] network. Under the international ambit are the nine ], 20 ] wetland sites, four ] and two ] ]s.<ref name="renpa">{{cite web |url=http://www.cma.junta-andalucia.es/medioambiente/site/web/menuitem.a5664a214f73c3df81d8899661525ea0/?vgnextoid=0cbb7abc83414010VgnVCM1000000624e50aRCRD&vgnextchannel=3259b19c7acf2010VgnVCM1000001625e50aRCRD&lr=lang_es |title=La RENPA – Red de Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Andalucía |access-date=8 September 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente (Junta de Andalucía)}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | |||
In total, nearly 20 percent of the territory of Andalusia lies in one of these protected areas, which constitute roughly 30 percent of the protected territory of Spain.<ref name="renpa" /> Among these many spaces, some of the most notable are the ], Spain's largest natural park and the second largest in Europe, the ], ], the ], and the ], the largest terrestrial-maritime reserve in the European Western Mediterranean Sea. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
{{Main|History of Andalusia}} | |||
One of several theories, none of which has been proven, is that the name Andalusia is derived from the ] name "Al Andalus", which refers to the parts of the ] which were under ] rule. The Islamic history of Muslim Spain can be found in the entry ]. ], the capital of a once great and powerful Tartessian Civilization, was located in Andalusia, and was known in the Bible by the name of Tarshish. More information about this region can be found in the entry '']'', the name of the Roman province that corresponds to the region. | |||
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The geostrategic position of Andalusia, at the southernmost tip of ], between Europe and ] and between the ] and the ], has made it a hub for various civilizations since the ]. Its wealth of minerals and fertile land, combined with its large surface area, attracted settlers from the ]ns to the ], who influenced the development of early cultures like ], ], and ]. These early Andalusian societies played a vital role in the region's transition from prehistory to ]. | |||
With the ], Andalusia became fully integrated into the Roman world as the prosperous province of ], which contributed emperors like ] and ] to the Roman Empire. During this time, Andalusia was a key economic center, providing resources and cultural contributions to Rome. Even after the Germanic invasions of Iberia by the ] and ], the region retained much of its Roman cultural and political significance, with figures such as ] maintaining Andalusia's intellectual heritage. | |||
Andalusian culture has been deeply marked by the eight centuries of Muslim rule over the region, which ended in 1492 with the conquest of Granada by the Catholic monarchs. | |||
In 711, the ] marked a major cultural and political shift, as Andalusia became a focal point of ], the Muslim-controlled Iberian Peninsula. The city of ] emerged as the capital of al-Andalus and one of the most important cultural and economic centers of the medieval world. The height of Andalusian prosperity came during the ], under rulers like ] and ], when the region became known for its advancements in science, philosophy, and architecture. However, the 11th century brought internal divisions with the fragmentation of al-Andalus into ]—small, independent kingdoms—which allowed the ] to push southwards. By the late 13th century, much of Andalusia had been reconquered by the ], led by monarchs like ], who captured the fertile ] valley. The last Muslim kingdom, the ], held out until its defeat in 1492, marking the completion of the Reconquista. | |||
The Spanish spoken in the ] is largely descended from the ] of ] due to the role played by Seville as the gateway to Spain's American territories in the 16th and 17th centuries. | |||
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In the centuries following the Reconquista, Andalusia played a central role in Spain's exploration and colonization of the ]. Cities like ] and ] became major hubs for transatlantic trade. However, despite its global influence during the ], Andalusia experienced economic decline due to a combination of military expenditures and failed industrialization efforts in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the modern era, Andalusia became part of Spain's movement towards autonomy, culminating in its designation as an ] in 1981. Despite its rich history, the region faces challenges in overcoming economic disparities and aligning with the wealthier parts of the ]. | |||
==Government and politics== | |||
Andalusia is known for its ] architecture. Famous monuments include the ] in ], the ] in ], the ] and ] towers in Seville, and the ] in Seville. Archaeological remains include ], near Córdoba and ], near Seville and ] port of the America discovery | |||
] is the seat of the ]]] | |||
] is the seat of the ]]] | |||
Andalusia is one of the 17 ]. The ] (Spanish: ''Junta de Andalucía'') includes the ], ], a Consultative Council, and other bodies. | |||
The Autonomous Community of Andalusia was formed in accord with a referendum of 28 February 1980<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.andaluciajunta.es/especiales/aj-fototeca-estatuto.html?cimg=5&idSeccion=3&idApartado=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209042444/http://www.andaluciajunta.es/especiales/aj-fototeca-estatuto.html?cimg=5&idSeccion=3&idApartado=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 February 2007 |title=Celebración del Referéndum de Autonomía del 28-F |access-date=12 August 2008 |author=Junta de Andalucía |language=es}}</ref> and became an autonomous community under the 1981 Statute of Autonomy known as the ''Estatuto de Carmona''. The process followed the ], still current as of 2009, which recognizes and guarantees the right of autonomy for the various regions and nationalities of Spain. The process to establish Andalusia as an autonomous region followed Article 151 of the Constitution, making Andalusia the only autonomous community to take that particular course. That article was set out for regions like Andalusia that had been prevented by the outbreak of the ] from adopting a statute of autonomy during the period of the ]. | |||
Andalusia Day (]: ''Día de Andalucía'') is celebrated on ], to commemorate the date of the successful ] referendum vote. | |||
Article 1 of the 1981 Statute of Autonomy justifies autonomy based on the region's "historical identity, on the self-government that the Constitution permits every nationality, on outright equality to the rest of the nationalities and regions that compose Spain, and with a power that emanates from the Andalusian Constitution and people, reflected in its Statute of Autonomy".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.andaluciajunta.es/especiales/aj-fototeca-estatuto.html?cimg=6&idSeccion=3&idApartado=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209042100/http://www.andaluciajunta.es/especiales/aj-fototeca-estatuto.html?cimg=6&idSeccion=3&idApartado=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 February 2007 |title=Asamblea de Parlamentarios para debatir el Estatuto de Autonomía |access-date=12 August 2008 |author=Junta de Andalucía |quote=...identidad histórica, en el autogobierno que la Constitución permite a toda nacionalidad, en plena igualdad al resto de nacionalidades y regiones que compongan España, y con un poder que emana de la Constitución y el pueblo andaluz, reflejado en su Estatuto de Autonomía}}</ref> | |||
== Administrative Divisions== | |||
Andalusia is divided into eight ] named after the capital cities of these provinces: | |||
In October 2006 the constitutional commission of the ] (the national legislature of Spain), with favorable votes from the left-of-center ] (PSOE), the leftist ] (IU) and the right-of-center ] (PP), approved a new Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia, whose preamble refers to the community as a "]" (''realidad nacional''): | |||
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{{Blockquote|The Andalusianist Manifesto of Córdoba described Andalusia as a national reality in 1919, whose spirit the Andalusians took up outright through the process of self-government recognized in our Magna Carta. In 1978 the Andalusians broadly backed the constitutional consensus. Today, the Constitution, in its Article 2, recognizes Andalusia as a nationality as part of the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation.<ref name="citing 1919" />|], in Spanish}} | |||
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On 2 November 2006 the Spanish Chamber Deputies ratified the text of the Constitutional Commission with 306 votes in favor, none opposed, and 2 abstentions. This was the first time a Spanish ] adopting a Statute of Autonomy was approved with no opposing votes. The Senate, in a plenary session of 20 December 2006, ratified the referendum to be voted upon by the Andalusian public 18 February 2007. | |||
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The Statute of Autonomy spells out Andalusia's distinct institutions of government and administration. Chief among these is the ] (''Junta de Andalucía''). Other institutions specified in the Statute are the Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz (literally "Defender of the Andalusian People", basically an ]), the Consultative Council, the Chamber of Accounts, the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia, and the Economic and Social Council. | |||
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The Andalusian Statute of Autonomy recognizes Seville as the autonomy's capital. The Andalusian Autonomous Government is located there. The region's highest court, the ] ('']'') is not part of the Autonomous Government, and has its seat in ]. | |||
] | |||
Other important Andalusian towns are: | |||
===Autonomous Government=== | |||
*], Cádiz | |||
{{Main|Andalusian Autonomous Government}} | |||
*], Cádiz | |||
]s of Andalusia.]] | |||
*], Cádiz | |||
] | |||
*], Málaga | |||
*], Cádiz | |||
The Andalusian Autonomous Government (''Junta de Andalucía'') is the institution of self-government of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. Within the government, the ] is the supreme representative of the autonomous community, and the ordinary representative of the Spanish state in the autonomous community. The president is formally named to the position by the ] and then confirmed by a majority vote of the ]. In practice, the monarch always names a person acceptable to the ruling party or coalition of parties in the autonomous region. In theory, were the candidate to fail to gain the needed majority, the monarch could propose a succession of candidates. After two months, if no proposed candidate could gain the parliament's approval, the parliament would automatically be dissolved and the acting president would call new elections.<ref>''Estatuto de Autonomía Art. 118 Cap. III Tít. IV''</ref> On 18 January 2019 ] was elected as the sixth president of Andalusia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://elcorreoweb.es/andalucia/el-candidato-a-la-alcaldia-de-sevilla-sera-quien-mas-garantias-nos-de-XC3466671 |title=El candidato a la alcaldía de Sevilla será quien más garantías nos dé |last=Cabello |first=Alberto |date=23 October 2017 |work=] |language=Spanish |access-date=7 November 2017 |archive-date=22 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822125813/http://elcorreoweb.es/andalucia/el-candidato-a-la-alcaldia-de-sevilla-sera-quien-mas-garantias-nos-de-XC3466671 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
*], Sevilla | |||
*], Sevilla | |||
The Council of Government, the highest political and administrative organ of the Community, exercises ] and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/consejo/funciones.html |title=Consejo de Gobierno. Funciones |access-date=8 October 2008 |work=] |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217051004/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/consejo/funciones.html |archive-date=17 December 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> The President presides over the council, which also includes the heads of various departments (''Consejerías''). In the current legislature (2008–2012), there are 15 of these departments. In order of precedence, they are Presidency, Governance, Economy and Treasury, Education, Justice and Public Administration, Innovation, Science and Business, Public Works and Transportation, Employment, Health, Agriculture and Fishing, Housing and Territorial Planning, Tourism, Commerce and Sports, Equality and Social Welfare, Culture, and Environment. | |||
*], Sevilla | |||
*], Sevilla | |||
The Parliament of Andalusia, its Autonomic Legislative Assembly, develops and approves laws and elects and removes the President.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parlamentodeandalucia.es/opencms/export/portal-web-parlamento/elparlamento/funciones.htm |title=Parlamento de Andalucía. Funciones |access-date=8 October 2008 |work=] |language=es |archive-date=14 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091214090247/http://www.parlamentodeandalucia.es/opencms/export/portal-web-parlamento/elparlamento/funciones.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> Elections to the Andalusian Parliament follow a democratic formula through which the citizens elect 109 representatives. After the approval of the Statute of Autonomy through Organic Law 6/1981 on 20 December 1981, the first elections to the autonomic parliament took place 23 May 1982. Further elections have occurred in 1986, 1990, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008. | |||
*], Málaga | |||
*], Granada | |||
The current (2008–2012) legislature includes representatives of the PSOE-A (Andalusian branch of the left-of-center PSOE), PP-A (Andalusian branch of the right-of-center PP) and IULV-CA (Andalusian branch of the leftist IU).<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408123317/http://www.eleccionesandalucia2008.es/cifras.html |title=Elecciones Andalucía 2008 |work=] |language=es |archive-date=8 April 2008 |access-date=4 April 2019 |url=http://www.eleccionesandalucia2008.es/cifras.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
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*] and ], Jaén | |||
===Judicial power=== | |||
The ] ('']'') in Granada is subject only to the higher jurisdiction of the ]. The High Court is not an organ of the Autonomous Community, but rather of the ], which is unitary throughout the kingdom and whose powers are not transferred to the autonomous communities. The Andalusian territory is divided into 88 ] (''partidos judiciales'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://andaluciajunta.es/justicia/adriano/cd/a/views/channel/adri_mostrar_contenidos_canal_subcanales/0,20961,12351694_12352530,00.html |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160517102624/http://andaluciajunta.es/justicia/adriano/cd/a/views/channel/adri_mostrar_contenidos_canal_subcanales/0,20961,12351694_12352530,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 May 2016 |title=Constitución del TSJA |access-date=8 October 2008 |author=Junta de Andalucía |language=es}}</ref> | |||
==Administrative divisions== | |||
===Provinces=== | |||
] '' or ''] ''.]] | |||
] '' or ''] ''.]] | |||
Andalusia consists of eight ]. The latter were established by ] in the ]. Each of the Andalusian provinces bears the same name as its capital:<ref name="del">{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/gobernacion/opencms/portal/AdministracionLocal/ContenidosEspecificos/BancoDatos/directoriodeentidadeslocales?entrada=destinatarios&destinatarios=19 |title=Directorio de Entidades Locales |access-date=8 October 2008 |author=Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Gobernación |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091223084007/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/gobernacion/opencms/portal/AdministracionLocal/ContenidosEspecificos/BancoDatos/directoriodeentidadeslocales?entrada=destinatarios&destinatarios=19 |archive-date=23 December 2009}}</ref> | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
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! Province !! Capital !! Population !! Density !! Municipalities !! Legal districts | |||
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! ] ] | |||
| ] || 753,920 || {{cvt|85.9|PD/km2}} || ] || 8 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 1,250,539 || {{cvt|168.1|PD/km2}} || ] || 14 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 773,997 || {{cvt|56.2|PD/km2}} || ] || 12 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 930,181 || {{cvt|73.5|PD/km2}} || ] || 9 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 530,824 || {{cvt|52.4|PD/km2}} || ] || 6 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 620,242 || {{cvt|45.9|PD/km2}} || ] || 10 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 1,751,600 || {{cvt|239.7|PD/km2}} || ] || 11 | |||
|- | |||
! ] ] | |||
| ] || 1,957,210 || {{cvt|139.4|PD/km2}} || ] || 15 | |||
|} | |||
Andalusia is traditionally divided into two historical subregions: '''''] '' or ''] ''''' (''Andalucía Oriental''), consisting of the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén, and Málaga, and '''''] '' or ''] ''''' (''Andalucía Occidental''), consisting of the provinces of Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva and Seville. | |||
===Comarcas and mancomunidades=== | |||
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Within the various autonomous communities of Spain, '']'' are comparable to ]s (or, in some countries, ]) in the English-speaking world. Unlike in some of Spain's other autonomous communities, under the original 1981 Statute of Autonomy, the ] had no formal recognition, but, in practice, they still had informal recognition as geographic, cultural, historical, or in some cases administrative entities. The 2007 Statute of Autonomy echoes this practice, and mentions ''comarcas'' in Article 97 of Title III, which defines the significance of ''comarcas'' and establishes a basis for formal recognition in future legislation.<ref>Tít. III. Art. 97. Comarcas – Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía 2007: :''"1. La comarca se configura como la agrupación voluntaria de municipios limítrofes con características geográficas, económicas, sociales e históricas afines. 2. Por ley del Parlamento de Andalucía podrá regularse la creación de comarcas, que establecerá, también, sus competencias. Se requerirá en todo caso el acuerdo de los Ayuntamientos afectados y la aprobación del Consejo de Gobierno."''</ref> | |||
The current statutory entity that most closely resembles a ''comarca'' is the {{Lang|es|]}}, a freely chosen, bottom-up association of municipalities intended as an instrument of socioeconomic development and coordination between municipal governments in specific areas.<ref name="del" /><ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701012558/http://www.dgal.map.es/cgi-bin/webapb/webdriver?MIval=mancprov |date=1 July 2010 }} (map), dgal.map.es. You can click the map to see the ''mancomunidades'' of each individual province.</ref> | |||
===Municipalities and local entities=== | |||
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Beyond the level of provinces, Andalusia is further divided into 774 ] (''municipios'').<ref name="del" /> The municipalities of Andalusia are regulated by Title III of the Statute of Autonomy, Articles 91–95, which establishes the municipality as the basic territorial entity of Andalusia, each of which has legal personhood and autonomy in many aspects of its internal affairs. At the municipal level, representation, government and administration is performed by the ''ayuntamiento'' (municipal government), which has competency for ], community social services, supply and treatment of water, collection and treatment of waste, and promotion of tourism, culture, and sports, among other matters established by law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/CCAA/an-l7-1993.html |title=Ley 7/1993, de 27 de julio, reguladora de la demarcación municipal de Andalucía. |work=Noticias Jurídicas |access-date=1 November 2014}}</ref> | |||
In conformity with the intent to devolve control as locally as possible, in many cases, separate nuclei of population within municipal borders each administer their own interests. These are variously known as ''pedanías'' ("hamlets"), ''villas'' ("villages"), ''aldeas'' (also usually rendered as "villages"), or other similar names.<ref name="del" /> | |||
==Demographics== | |||
Andalusia ranks first by population among the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. The estimated population at the beginning of 2023 was 8,538,376. The population is concentrated, above all, in the provincial capitals and along the coasts, so that the level of urbanization is quite high; half the population is concentrated in the 28 cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants. The population is aging, although the process of immigration is countering the inversion of the ].<ref>Inversion of the ] is a process by which the number of older people exceeds the number of younger people. This often occurs in developed countries as birth rates decline.</ref> | |||
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=== Main cities === | |||
{{See also|List of cities in Andalusia by population}}{{clear left}} | |||
{{Largest cities | |||
| country = Andalusia | |||
| stat_ref = ] (1 January 2023)<ref>{{cite web |publisher=] |url=https://ine.es/dynt3/inebase/es/index.htm?padre=525 |title=Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales |access-date=23 February 2024}}</ref> | |||
| list_by_pop = | |||
| kind = municipalities | |||
| div_name = | |||
| div_link = Provinces of Spain{{!}}Province | |||
| city_1 = Seville | |||
| div_1 = Province of Seville{{!}}Seville | |||
| pop_1 = 684,025 | |||
| img_1 = Sevilla Luft 120308.JPG | |||
| city_2 = Málaga | |||
| div_2 = Province of Málaga{{!}}Málaga | |||
| pop_2 = 586,384 | |||
| img_2 = Malaga Luftaufnahme.jpg | |||
| city_3 = Córdoba, Spain{{!}}Córdoba | |||
| div_3 = Province of Córdoba (Spain){{!}}Córdoba | |||
| pop_3 = 323,763 | |||
| img_3 = Córdoba aerial 6.jpg | |||
| city_4 = Granada | |||
| div_4 = Province of Granada{{!}}Granada | |||
| pop_4 = 230,595 | |||
| img_4 = La alhambra desde el tambor - panoramio.jpg | |||
| city_5 = Jerez de la Frontera | |||
| div_5 = Province of Cádiz{{!}}Cádiz | |||
| pop_5 = 213,231 | |||
| city_6 = Almería | |||
| div_6 = Province of Almería{{!}}Almería | |||
| pop_6 = 200,578 | |||
| city_7 = Marbella | |||
| div_7 = Province of Málaga{{!}}Málaga | |||
| pop_7 = 156,295 | |||
| city_8 = Huelva | |||
| div_8 = Province of Huelva{{!}}Huelva | |||
| pop_8 = 142,532 | |||
| city_9 = Dos Hermanas | |||
| div_9 = Province of Seville{{!}}Seville | |||
| pop_9 = 138,981 | |||
| city_10 = Algeciras | |||
| div_10 = Province of Cádiz{{!}}Cádiz | |||
| pop_10 = 123,639 | |||
| city_11 = Jaén, Spain{{!}}Jaén | |||
| div_11 = Province of Jaén (Spain){{!}}Jaén | |||
| pop_11 = 111,888 | |||
| city_12 = Cádiz | |||
| div_12 = Province of Cádiz{{!}}Cádiz | |||
| pop_12 = 111,811 | |||
| city_13 = Roquetas de Mar | |||
| div_13 = Province of Almería{{!}}Almería | |||
| pop_13 = 106,510 | |||
| city_14 = San Fernando, Cádiz{{!}}San Fernando | |||
| div_14 = Cádiz{{!}}Cádiz | |||
| pop_14 = 93,927 | |||
| city_15 = Mijas | |||
| div_15 = Province of Málaga{{!}}Málaga | |||
| pop_15 = 91,691 | |||
| city_16 = El Ejido | |||
| div_16 = Province of Almería{{!}}Almería | |||
| pop_16 = 89,975 | |||
| city_17 = El Puerto de Santa María | |||
| div_17 = Province of Cádiz{{!}}Cádiz | |||
| pop_17 = 89,813 | |||
| city_18 = Chiclana de la Frontera | |||
| div_18 = Province of Cádiz{{!}}Cádiz | |||
| pop_18 = 88,709 | |||
| city_19 = Fuengirola | |||
| div_19 = Province of Málaga{{!}}Málaga | |||
| pop_19 = 85,598 | |||
| city_20 = Vélez-Málaga | |||
| div_20 = Province of Málaga{{!}}Málaga | |||
| pop_20 = 85,377 | |||
}} | |||
===Population change=== | |||
{{Historical populations | |||
|footnote = Source: ] | |||
|1900| 3544769 | |||
|1910| 3800299 | |||
|1920| 4221686 | |||
|1930| 4627148 | |||
|1940| 5255120 | |||
|1950| 5647244 | |||
|1960| 5940067 | |||
|1970| 5991076 | |||
|1981| 6441149 | |||
|1991| 6940542 | |||
|2001| 7357558 | |||
|2011| 8371270 | |||
|2021| 8484804 | |||
|2023| 8538376 | |||
}} | |||
At the end of the 20th century, Andalusia was in the last phase of ]. The ] stagnated at around 8–9 per thousand, and the population came to be influenced mainly by birth and migration.<ref name="pob2">{{cite book |author=Pozuelo, I. |chapter=Características del desarrollo urbano reciente en Andalucía. El siglo XX |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8}}</ref> | |||
In 1950, Andalusia had 20.04 percent of the national population of Spain. By 1981, this had declined to 17.09 percent. Although the Andalusian population was not declining in absolute terms, these relative losses were due to emigration great enough to nearly counterbalance having the highest ] in Spain. Since the 1980s, this process has reversed on all counts,<ref name=Llanes>{{cite journal |author=Llanes, G. |title=La dinámica de la población en Andalucía: transición y cambios en el siglo XX |year=1999 |journal=Boletín económico de Andalucía |number=25 |issn=0212-6621 |pages=129–152 |language=es}}</ref> and as of 2009, Andalusia has 17.82 percent of the Spanish population.<ref name="pob">{{cite book |author=Fernández, V.M. |chapter=Geografía de la población |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
The birth rate is sharply down, as is typical in developed economies, although it has lagged behind much of the rest of the world in this respect. Furthermore, prior emigrants have been returning to Andalusia. Beginning in the 1990s, others have been immigrating in large numbers as well, as Spain has become a country of net immigration.<ref name=Llanes /> | |||
At the beginning of the 21st century, statistics show a slight increase in the birth rate, due in large part to the higher birth rate among immigrants.<ref name="Indicadores sociales">{{cite journal |author=AA.VV |title=Indicadores sociales e inserción laboral de la población extranjera en España y Andalucía |year=2004 |journal=Portularia: Revista de Trabajo Social |volume=4 |issn=1578-0236 |pages=51–60 |language=es |hdl=10272/211}}</ref><ref name="Pob Extranjera">{{cite journal |author=Urdiales, M.E. |author2=Menéndez, M. |title=La Población Extranjera en Andalucía |year=2005 |journal=Cuadernos geográficos de la Universidad de Granada |number=36 |issn=0210-5462 |pages=169–184 |language=es}}</ref> The result is that as of 2009, the trend toward rejuvenation of the population is among the strongest of any autonomous community of Spain, or of any comparable region in Europe.<ref name="pob" /> | |||
===Structure=== | |||
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the population structure of Andalusia shows a clear inversion of the population pyramid, with the largest cohorts falling between ages 25 and 50.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Del Valle, C. |title=El envejecimiento demográfico en Andalucía y las características sociodemográficas de la población mayor de 64 años |year=2005 |journal=Papers de Demografia |number=255 |language=es}}</ref> Comparison of the population pyramid in 2008 to that in 1986 shows: | |||
# A clear decrease in the population under the age of 25, due to a declining birth rate. | |||
# An increase in the adult population, as the earlier, larger cohort born in the "baby boom" of the 1960s and 1970s reach adulthood. This effect has been exacerbated by immigration: the largest contingent of immigrants are young adults. | |||
# A further increase in the adult population, and especially the older adult population, due to increased ]. | |||
As far as composition by sex, two aspects stand out: the higher percentage of women in the elderly population, owing to women's longer life expectancy, and, on the other hand, the higher percentage of men of working age, due in large part to a predominantly male immigrant population.<ref name="pob" /> | |||
===Immigration=== | |||
In 2005, 5.35 percent of the population of Andalusia were born outside of Spain. This is a relatively low number for a Spanish region, the national average being three percentage points higher. The immigrants are not evenly distributed among the Andalusian provinces: Almería, with a 15.20 percent immigrant population, is third among all provinces in Spain, while at the other extreme Jaén is only 2.07 percent immigrants and Córdoba 1.77 percent. The predominant nationalities among the immigrant populations are ] (92,500, constituting 17.79 percent of the foreigners living in Andalusia) and ] (15.25 percent across the region). When comparing world regions rather than individual countries, the single largest immigrant block is from the region of ], outnumbering not only all North Africans, but also all non-Spanish Western Europeans.<ref>], 2005 census</ref> Demographically, this group has provided an important addition to the Andalusian labor force.<ref name="Indicadores sociales" /><ref name="Pob Extranjera" /> | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|'''Foreign Population by Nationality'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Población extranjera por Nacionalidad, comunidades, Sexo y Año. |url=https://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t20/e245/p08/l0/&file=02005.px |access-date=14 July 2023 |website=INE |language=es-ES |archive-date=21 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221082714/https://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=%2Ft20%2Fe245%2Fp08%2Fl0%2F&file=02005.px |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
|Number | |||
|% | |||
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|2022 | |||
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|'''TOTAL FOREIGNERS''' | |||
|741,378 | |||
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|EUROPE | |||
|342,463 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|EUROPEAN UNION | |||
|206,934 | |||
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|- | |||
|OTHER EUROPE | |||
|135,529 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|AFRICA | |||
|211,443 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|SOUTH AMERICA | |||
|102,938 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|CENTRAL AMERICA | |||
|30,160 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|NORTH AMERICA | |||
|11,446 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|ASIA | |||
|41,811 | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
|OCEANIA | |||
|573 | |||
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|Instituto Nacional de Estadística | |||
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==Economy== | |||
Andalusia is traditionally an agricultural area, but the ] (particularly tourism, retail sales, and transportation) now predominates. The once booming construction sector, hit hard by the ], was also important to the region's economy. The industrial sector is less developed than most other regions in Spain. | |||
Between 2000 and 2006 economic growth per annum was 3.72%, one of the highest in the country. Still, according to the Spanish {{Lang|es|]|italic=no}} (INE), the GDP per capita of Andalusia (€17,401; 2006) remains the second lowest in Spain, with only ] lagging behind.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.diariodesevilla.es/article/economia/19254/la/renta/capita/andaluza/alcanza/los/euros/la/segunda/mas/baja/espana.html |title=La renta per cápita andaluza alcanza los 17.401 euros, la segunda más baja de España |newspaper=Diario de Sevilla |date=28 December 2007 |page=40 |access-date=4 April 2019 |language=es |publisher=]}}</ref> The ] (GDP) of the autonomous community was 160.6 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 13.4% of Spanish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 20,500 euros or 68% of the EU27 average in the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58 |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Regional GDP per capita ranged from 30% to 263% of the EU average in 2018 |website=Eurostat}}</ref> | |||
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|+ GDP, GDP per capita, number of people in the work force, percentage of the Andalusian work force by province<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/iea/visualizar.jsp?CodOper=832&codConsulta=-428978 |title=Explotación obtenida a partir de la tabla Contabilidad Provincial Anual de Andalucía |access-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223050923/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/institutodeestadisticaycartografia/iea/visualizar.jsp?CodOper=832&codConsulta=-428978 |archive-date=23 February 2018 |publisher=] |language=es |work=] |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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|style="text-align:left;"| GDP (thousands of €) || 154,011,654|| 14,124,024|| 21,430,772|| 13,000,521|| 16,403,614|| 9,716,037|| 10,036,091|| 31,331,122|| 37,969,433 | |||
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|style="text-align:left;"| GDP per capita (€) || 18,360|| 20,054 || 17,284 || 16,422 || 17,919 || 18,699 || 15,481|| 19,229 || 19,574 | |||
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|style="text-align:left;"| Workers || 2,990,143|| 286,714|| 387,174 || 264,072|| 309,309|| 196,527 || 220,877|| 607,255|| 718,215 | |||
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|style="text-align:left;"| GDP (%) || 100 || 9.17 || 13.92 || 8.44 || 10.65 || 6.31 || 6.52 || 20.34 || 24.65 | |||
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===Primary sector=== | |||
The ], despite adding the least of the three sectors to the regional ], remains important, especially when compared to typical developed economies. The primary sector produces 8.26 percent of regional GDP, 6.4 percent of its GVA and employs 8.19 percent of the workforce.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/regional-innovation-monitor/base-profile/andalusia-0 |title=Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs: Andalusia |last=European Commission |date=2018 |access-date=10 July 2019}}</ref><ref>IEA data for 2007</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2018}}<!-- existing citation is very vague--> In monetary terms it could be considered a rather uncompetitive sector, given its level of productivity compared to other Spanish regions.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} In addition to its numeric importance relative to other regions, agriculture and other primary sector activities have strong roots in local culture and identity. | |||
The primary sector is divided into a number of subsectors: ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. | |||
====Agriculture, husbandry, hunting, and forestry==== | |||
] of ] in Andalusia]] | |||
For many centuries, agriculture dominated Andalusian society, and, with 44.3 percent of its territory cultivated and 8.4 percent of its workforce in agriculture as of 2016 it remains an integral part of Andalusia's economy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bioeconomiaandalucia.es/documents/1056091/1056684/IRA+Andalusia/d55a2a1a-98f3-419e-845a-d2ce5c88ea75?version=1.0#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A18%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C70.9%2C740%2C0%5D |title=Andalusia as a model demonstrator region |last=CIRCE and CEFIC Consultants and Bioeconomía en Andalucía |date=September 2016 |access-date=10 July 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726015054/http://www.bioeconomiaandalucia.es/documents/1056091/1056684/IRA+Andalusia/d55a2a1a-98f3-419e-845a-d2ce5c88ea75?version=1.0#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A18%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C70.9%2C740%2C0%5D |url-status=dead}}</ref><!-- citation is vague --> However, its importance is declining, like the primary and secondary sectors generally, as the service sector is increasingly taking over.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/export/drupaljda/Macromagnitudes_maestra_abril_2015_INGLES_V02.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/export/drupaljda/Macromagnitudes_maestra_abril_2015_INGLES_V02.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=The Agricultural and Fisheries sector in Andalusia |last=Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo RuralSecretaría General de Agricultura y Alimentación |date=April 2015 |access-date=10 July 2019}}</ref> The primary cultivation is dryland farming of ]s and ]s without artificial ], especially in the vast countryside of the Guadalquivir valley and the high plains of Granada and Almería-with a considerably lesser and more geographically focused cultivation of ] and ]. Using irrigation, ], ] and ] are also grown on the banks of the Guadalquivir and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/web/Bloques_Tematicos/Publicaciones_Divulgacion_Y_Noticias/Documentos_Tecnicos/Recursos_naturales/PDFs/144_197.pdf |title=Recursos de la agricultura: Recursos naturales de Andalucía. |access-date=7 October 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente |language=es}}</ref> | |||
] | |||
The most important tree crops are ], especially in the Subbetic regions of the provinces of Córdoba and Jáen, where irrigated olive orchards constitute a large component of agricultural output.<ref>Junta de Andalucía, '' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419045620/http://www.portalbesana.es/documentos/documentacion/olivarandaluz/cap5.pdf |date=19 April 2009 }}'', in '' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212044331/http://www.portalbesana.es/estaticas/servicios/documentacion/elolivarandaluz.html |date=12 December 2009 }}'', Besana. Retrieved 9 October 2008.</ref> There are extensive ]s in various zones such as ] (]), ], ] and ]. Fruits—mainly ] fruits—are grown near the banks of the Guadalquivir; ]s, which require far less water, are grown on the high plains of Granada and Almería.<ref>{{cite book |author=Naranjo, J. |chapter=Cultivos y aprovechamientos en Andalucía |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
In monetary terms, by far the most productive and competitive agriculture in Andalusia is the intensive forced cultivation of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and other fruits grown under hothouse conditions under clear plastic, often in sandy zones, on the coasts, in Almería and Huelva.<ref>{{cite book |author=García, A. |chapter=La agricultura litorial |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
], ].]] | |||
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] has recently undergone rapid expansion in Andalusia, mainly for export to European markets but with increasing demand developing in Spain.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=Empresa Pública Desarrollo Agrario y Pesquero, Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca, Junta de Andalucía. |title=II PLAN ANDALUZ DE AGRICULTURA ECOLÓGICA (2007–2013) |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agriculturaypesca/portal/www/portal/PDF_Directos/libro_plan_ae.pdf |access-date=18 October 2008 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824001100/http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/agriculturaypesca/portal/www/portal/PDF_Directos/libro_plan_ae.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2009}}</ref> | |||
Andalusia has a long tradition of ] and ] farming, but it is now restricted mainly to mountain meadows, where there is less pressure from other potential uses. Andalusians have a long and colourful history of ] that can be observed throughout the region today. The raising of livestock now plays a semi-marginal role in the Andalusian economy, constituting only 15 percent of the primary sector, half the number for Spain taken as a whole.<ref>{{cite book |author=Silva, R. |chapter=Ganadería y sistemas ganaderos |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
"Extensive" raising of livestock grazes the animals on natural or cultivated ]s, whereas "intensive" raising of livestock is based in ] rather than pasture. Although the productivity is higher than with extensive techniques, the economics are quite different. While intensive techniques now dominate in Europe and even in other regions of Spain, most of Andalusia's ], virtually all of its ] and ]s, and a good portion of its ]s are raised by extensive farming in mountain pastures. This includes the ]s that are the source of '']''. Andalusia's native sheep and goats present a great economic opportunity in a Europe where animal products are generally in strong supply, but the sheep and goat meat, milk, and leather (and the products derived from these) are relatively scarce. ]s are bred not just as companion animals, but also as herding animals used by goat and sheep herders. | |||
Hunting remains relatively important in Andalusia, but has largely lost its character as a means of obtaining food. | |||
It is now more of a leisure activity linked to the mountain areas and complementary to forestry and the raising of livestock.<ref name="gancaz">{{cite book |author=López, A. |chapter=La caza en Andalucía |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> Dogs are frequently used as hunting companions to retrieve killed game. | |||
The Andalusian ]s are important for their extent—50 percent of the territory of Andalusia—and for other less quantifiable environmental reasons, such as their value in preventing erosion, regulating the flow of water necessary for other flora and fauna. For these reasons, there is legislation in place to protect the Andalusian forests.<ref>{{cite book |author=Araque, E. |chapter=Los espacios forestales andaluces. |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> The value of forest products as such constitutes only 2 percent of agricultural production. This comes mostly from cultivated species—] in Huelva and ] in Granada—as well as naturally occurring ] in the Sierra Morena.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/web/Bloques_Tematicos/Publicaciones_Divulgacion_Y_Noticias/Documentos_Tecnicos/Recursos_naturales/PDFs/249_276.pdf |title=Recursos forestales: Recursos naturales de Andalucía. |access-date=7 October 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente |language=es}}</ref> | |||
====Fishing==== | |||
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] is a longstanding tradition on the Andalusian coasts. Fish and other seafood have long figured prominently in the local diet and in the local ] culture: ] (''pescaito frito'' in local dialect), white ]s, '']'' tuna, among others. The Andalusian fishing fleet is Spain's second largest, after ], and Andalusia's 38 fishing ports are the most of any Spanish autonomous community.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/fi/oldsite/FCP/es/ESP/profile.htm |title=El Reino de España. Datos económicos generales – Abril 2007 |access-date=5 October 2008 |publisher=FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010042450/http://www.fao.org/fi/oldsite/FCP/es/ESP/profile.htm |archive-date=10 October 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> Commercial fishing produces only 0.5 percent of the product of the regional primary sector by value, but there are areas where it has far greater importance. In the province of Huelva it constitutes 20 percent of the primary sector, and locally in ] 70 percent of the work force is involved in commercial fishing.<ref>{{cite book |author=Suárez, J.L. |author2=Rodríguez, J.A. |chapter=La pesca en Andalucía |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Failure to comply with fisheries laws regarding the use of trawling, urban ] of the seacoast, destruction of habitats by coastal construction (for example, alteration of the mouths of rivers, construction of ports), and diminution of fisheries by ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.consumer.es/web/es/medio_ambiente/2002/05/15/45840.php |title=Peligra la supervivencia de algunas plantas marinas en el litoral malagueño |access-date=18 October 2008 |date=15 May 2002 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203165558/http://www.consumer.es/web/es/medio_ambiente/2002/05/15/45840.php |archive-date=3 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
have created a permanent crisis in the Andalusian fisheries, justifying attempts to convert the fishing fleet. The decrease in fish stocks has led to the rise of ], including ] both on the coasts and in the interior.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/web/Bloques_Tematicos/Publicaciones_Divulgacion_Y_Noticias/Documentos_Tecnicos/Recursos_naturales/PDFs/125_143.pdf |title=Recursos del mar: Recursos naturales de Andalucía. |access-date=7 October 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente |language=es}}</ref> | |||
====Mining==== | |||
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Despite the general poor returns in recent years, ] retains a certain importance in Andalusia. Andalusia produces half of Spain's mining product by value. Of Andalusia's production, roughly half comes from the province of Huelva. Mining for precious metals at ] in Huelva (''see ]'') dates back to pre-Roman times; the mines were abandoned in the Middle Ages and rediscovered in 1556. Other mining activity is ] mining in the Guadiato valley in the province of Córdoba; various metals at ] in the province of Seville, and iron at ] in the province of Granada. In addition, limestone, clay, and other materials used in construction are well distributed throughout Andalusia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/medioambiente/web/Bloques_Tematicos/Publicaciones_Divulgacion_Y_Noticias/Documentos_Tecnicos/Recursos_naturales/PDFs/100_124.pdf |title=Energía y minerales: Recursos naturales de Andalucía. |access-date=7 October 2008 |author=Consejería de Medio Ambiente |language=es}}</ref> | |||
===Secondary sector: industry=== | |||
The Andalusian industrial sector has always been relatively small. Nevertheless, in 2007, Andalusian industry earned 11.979 million euros and employed more than 290,000 workers. This represented 9.15 percent of regional GDP, far below the 15.08 the secondary sector represents in the economy of Spain as a whole.<ref>IEA: Contabilidad Regional de Andalucía{{full citation needed|date=September 2020}}</ref> By analyzing the different subsectors of the food industry Andalusian industry accounts for more than 16% of total production. In a comparison with the Spanish economy, this subsector is virtually the only food that has some weight in the national economy with 16.16%. Lies far behind the manufacturing sector of shipping materials just over 10% of the Spanish economy. Companies like Cruzcampo (Heineken Group), Puleva, Domecq, Santana Motors or Renault-Andalusia, are exponents of these two subsectors. Of note is the Andalusian aeronautical sector, which is second nationally only behind Madrid and represents approximately 21% of total turnover in terms of employment, highlighting companies like ], ], or the newly formed Aerospace Alestis. On the contrary it is symptomatic of how little weight the regional economy in such important sectors such as textiles or electronics at the national level.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} | |||
Andalusian industry is also characterized by a specialization in industrial activities of transforming raw agricultural and mineral materials. This is largely done by small enterprises without the public or foreign investment more typical of a high level of industrialization. | |||
===Tertiary sector: services=== | |||
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In recent decades the Andalusian tertiary (service) sector has grown greatly, and has come to constitute the majority of the regional economy, as is typical of contemporary economies in developed nations.<ref>{{cite book |author=Carabaca, I. |chapter=La terciarización de la economía andaluza |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In 1975 the service sector produced 51.1 percent of local GDP and employed 40.8 percent of the work force. In 2007, this had risen to 67.9 percent of GDP and 66.42 percent of jobs. This process of "tertiarization" of the economy has followed a somewhat unusual course in Andalusia.<ref name=tertiarization>{{cite journal |author=Genaro, M.D. |author2=González, F.J. |title=La terciarización en Andalucía: evolución de la producción y el empleo |year=1997 |journal=Actas del I Congreso de Ciencia Regional de Andalucía: Andalucía en el umbral del siglo XX |url=http://www2.uca.es/escuela/emp_je/investigacion/congreso/mcc034.pdf |language=es |access-date=12 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331090936/http://www2.uca.es/escuela/emp_je/investigacion/congreso/mcc034.pdf |archive-date=31 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> This growth occurred somewhat earlier than in most developed economies and occurred independently of the local industrial sector. There were two principal reasons that "]" followed a different course in Andalusia than elsewhere: | |||
1. Andalusian capital found it impossible to compete in the industrial sector against more developed regions, and was obligated to invest in sectors that were easier to enter. | |||
2. The absence of an industrial sector that could absorb displaced agricultural workers and artisans led to the proliferation of services with rather low productivity. This unequal development compared to other regions led to a hypertrophied and unproductive service sector, which has tended to reinforce underdevelopment, because it has not led to large accumulations of capital.<ref name=tertiarization /><ref>{{cite book |last=Delgado Cabeza |first=Manuel |title=Dependencia y marginación de la economía andaluza |year=1981 |publisher=Publicaciones del Monte de Piedad, Caja de Ahorros |location=Córdoba |isbn=84-7231-613-0 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
====Tourism in Andalusia==== | |||
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Due in part to the relatively mild winter and spring climate, the south of Spain is attractive to overseas visitors–especially tourists from Northern Europe. While inland areas such as ], ] and the hill villages and towns remain relatively untouched by tourism, the coastal areas of Andalusia have heavy visitor traffic for much of the year. | |||
Among the autonomous communities, Andalusia is second only to ] in tourism, with nearly 30 million visitors every year. The principal tourist destinations in Andalusia are the ] and (secondarily) the ]. As discussed ], Andalusia is one of the sunniest and warmest places in Europe, making it a center of "sun and sand" tourism,<ref>{{cite book |author=Fernández, A. |chapter=Actividades y espacios turísticos |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> but not only it. Around 70 percent of the lodging capacity and 75 percent of the nights booked in Andalusian hotels are in coastal municipalities. The largest number of tourists come in August—13.26 percent of the nights booked throughout the year—and the smallest number in December—5.36 percent. | |||
On the west (Atlantic) coast are the ] (provinces of Huelva and Cádiz), and on the east (Mediterranean) coast, the ] (provinces of Cádiz y Málaga), ] (Granada and part of Almería) and the ]. In 2004, the ] program of the non-profit ] recognized 66 Andalusian beaches and 18 pleasure craft ports as being in a good state of conservation in terms of sustainability, accessibility, and quality.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} Nonetheless, the level of tourism on the Andalusian coasts has been high enough to have a significant environmental impact, and other organizations—such as the Spanish ] (''Ecologistas en Acción'') with their description of "Black Flag beaches"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/spip.php?article11444 |title=Banderas negras 2008 en Andalucía |access-date=18 October 2008 |language=es |archive-date=26 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726013504/http://www.ecologistasenaccion.org/spip.php?article11444 |url-status=dead}}</ref> or ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.20minutos.es/data/adj/2007/06/26/702.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.20minutos.es/data/adj/2007/06/26/702.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=Destrucción a toda costa |date=2 February 2007 |access-date=19 October 2008 |language=es}}</ref>—have expressed the opposite sentiment. Still, ] such as Fuerte Hotels have ensured that sustainability within the tourism industry is one of their highest priorities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.accessibletourism.org/?i=enat.en.news.1097 |title=Responsible Tourism in FITUR, Spain – European Network for Accessible Tourism}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.andalucia.com/travel/environmentally-sustainable-tourism.htm |title=Environmentally Sustainable Tourism in Andalucia |first=Brenda |last=Padilla |website=Andalucia.com |date=18 October 2013}}</ref><ref> {{webarchive| url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151028163648/http://sustainabletourismworld.org/fuerte-hoteles-devotedly-focused-on-responsible-tourism/ |date=28 October 2015 }}</ref> | |||
Together with "sand and sun" tourism, there has also been a strong increase in nature tourism in the interior, as well as ], sport tourism, and conventions.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}} One example of sport and nature tourism is the ski resort at ]. | |||
As for cultural tourism, there are hundreds of cultural tourist destinations: cathedrals, castles, forts, monasteries, and historic city centers and a wide variety of museums. | |||
It can be highlighted that Spain has seven of its 42 cultural UNESCO ]s in Andalucia: | |||
* ], Generalife and Albayzín, ] (1984,1994) | |||
* ] (2016) | |||
* 10th Century Caliphate City of ] (2018) | |||
* ], ] and ] in ] (1987) | |||
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* Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of ] and ] (2003) | |||
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Further, there are the '']'', significant places in the life of ]:<ref>Decreto 553/1967, de 2 de marzo, por el que se declara conjunto histórico artístico el sector denominado "Lugares Colombinos" en la provincia de Huelva. He was laid to rest in Seville Cathedral. {{Webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225104/http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/search.php?coleccion=gazeta&frases=no&sort_field%5B0%5D=fpu&sort_order%5B0%5D=desc&sort_field%5B1%5D=ref&sort_order%5B1%5D=asc&OK=Buscar&operador%5B0%5D=and&campo%5B0%5D=TIT&dato%5B0%5D=lugares+colombinos&operador%5B1%5D=and&campo%5B1%5D=ID_RNG&dato%5B1%5D=&operador%5B2%5D=and&campo%5B2%5D=DEM&dato%5B2%5D=&operador%5B3%5D=and&campo%5B3%5D=ID_GAZ&dato%5B3%5D=&operador%5B4%5D=and&campo%5B4%5D=TIT&dato%5B4%5D=&operador%5B5%5D=and&campo%5B5%5D=NBO&dato%5B5%5D=&operador%5B6%5D=and&campo%5B6%5D=FPU&dato%5B6%5D%5B0%5D=&dato%5B6%5D%5B1%5D=&operador%5B7%5D=and&campo%5B7%5D=FAP&dato%5B7%5D%5B0%5D=&dato%5B7%5D%5B1%5D=&page_hits=40&sort_field%5B0%5D=FPU&sort_order%5B0%5D=desc&sort_field%5B1%5D=ref&sort_order%5B1%5D=asc |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> ], ], and ]) in the province of Huelva. There are also archeological sites of great interest: the Roman city of ], birthplace of ] ] and (most likely) ] or ] near Tarifa. | |||
Andalusia was the birthplace of such great painters as ] and ] (Seville) and, more recently, ] (Málaga); Picasso is memorialized by his native city at the ] and ]; the ] was a ] 1982–1998, but is now mostly offices for the Andalusian Council of Culture. The CAC Málaga (Museum of Modern Art) is the most visited museum of Andalusia<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.andalucia.com/history/people/pablo-picasso.htm |title=Pablo Picasso, Andalucia {{!}} Southern Spain |website=www.andalucia.com |date=12 February 2014 |language=en-GB |access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> and has offered exhibitions of artists such as ], ], ], ], ] or ]. Malaga is also located part of the private ] at ]. | |||
There are numerous other significant museums around the region, both of paintings and of archeological artifacts such as gold jewelry, pottery and other ceramics, and other works that demonstrate the region's artisanal traditions. | |||
The Council of Government has designated the following "Municipios Turísticos": in Almería, ]; in Cádiz, ], ], ], ], ], and ]; in Granada, ]; in Huelva, ]; in Jaén, ]; in Málaga, ], ], ], ], ], and ]; in Seville, ]. | |||
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=== Unemployment === | |||
The unemployment rate stood at 25.5% in 2017 and was one of the highest in Spain and Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=de&pcode=tgs00010&plugin=1 |title=Regional Unemployment by NUTS2 Region |website=Eurostat |access-date=13 November 2018 |archive-date=5 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105202703/https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=de&pcode=tgs00010&plugin=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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==Infrastructure== | |||
===Transport=== | |||
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As in any modern society, transport systems are an essential structural element of the functioning of Andalusia. The transportation network facilitates territorial coordination, economic development and distribution, and intercity transportation.<ref name="infra">{{cite book |author=Pozuelo, I. |chapter=Los sistemas de trasporte, las infraestructuras y el territorio |title=Geografía de Andalucía (Coor. López Antonio) |year=2003 |publisher=Ariel Geografía |location=Barcelona |isbn=84-344-3476-8 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
In urban transport, underdeveloped public transport systems put pedestrian traffic and other non-motorized traffic are at a disadvantage compared to the use of private vehicles. Several Andalusian capitals—Córdoba, Granada and Seville—have recently been trying to remedy this by strengthening their public transport systems and providing a better infrastructure for the use of ]s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cañavate |first=Jose Luis |author2=Corral, Carlos |publisher=Consejería de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía |title=La bicicleta como medio de transporte en Andalucía |year=2004 |language=es}}</ref> There are now three ] systems operating in Andalucia – the ], ] and ]. ] ] networks operate in Seville, Málaga and Cádiz. | |||
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For over a century, the conventional rail network has been centralized on the regional capital, Seville, and the national capital, Madrid; in general, there are no direct connections between provincial capitals. High-speed ] trains run from Madrid via Córdoba to ] and ], from which a branch from ] opened in 2019. Further AVE routes are under construction.<ref> {{Webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208012050/http://www.renfe.es/ave/index.html |date=8 December 2009 }}, RENFE/AVE. Retrieved 11 December 2009.</ref> The Madrid-Córdoba-Seville route was the first high-velocity route in Spain (operating since 1992). Other principal routes are the one from Algeciras to Seville and from ] via Granada to Madrid. | |||
Most of the principal roads have been converted into ]s known as '']s''. The Autovía del Este (]) runs from Madrid through the Despeñaperros Natural Park, then via Bailén, Córdoba, and Seville to Cádiz, and is part of ] in the ]. The other main road in the region is the portion of ], which runs as the Autovia del Mediterráneo along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Parts of this constitute the ] ], while in other areas it is ]. Both of these roads run generally east–west, although the Autovía A-4 turns to the south in western Andalusia. | |||
Other first-order roads include the ] roughly along the Atlantic coast from Cádiz to Algeciras, continuing European route E05 to meet up with ]; the Autovía del Quinto Centenario (]), which continues west from Seville (where the Autovía A-4 turns toward the south) and goes on to Huelva and into Portugal as ]; the Autovía Ruta de la Plata (]), ], which roughly corresponds to the ancient Roman ']' from the mines of northern Spain, and runs north from Seville; the Autovía de Málaga (]), which runs south from Córdoba to Málaga; and the Autovía de Sierra Nevada (]), part of ], which runs south from Jaén to the Mediterranean coast at Motril. | |||
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As of 2008 Andalusia has six public airports, all of which can legally handle international flights. The ] is dominant, handling 60.67 percent of passengers<ref name="Datos Aena">{{cite web |publisher=AENA |url=http://estadisticas.aena.es/csee/ContentServer?pagename=Estadisticas/Home |title=Informes sobre la utilización de los aeropuertos de España en los últimos años |access-date=17 January 2008 |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108081527/http://estadisticas.aena.es/csee/ContentServer?pagename=Estadisticas%2FHome |archive-date=8 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and 85 percent of its international traffic.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.myhomeinandalucia.com/infrastructure |title=My Home in Andalucia {{!}} Home |website=My Home in Andalucia {{!}} Home |access-date=31 October 2017}}</ref> The ] handles another 20.12 percent of traffic, and the ] 7.17 percent, so that these three airports account for 87.96 percent of traffic.<ref name="Datos Aena" /> | |||
Málaga Airport is the international airport that offers a wide variety of international destinations. It has a daily link with twenty cities in Spain and over a hundred cities in Europe (mainly in Great Britain, Central Europe and the Nordic countries but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: ], ], ], ] or ]), North Africa, Middle East (], ] and ]) and North America (], ] and ]). | |||
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The main ports are Algeciras (for freight and container traffic) and Málaga for cruise ships. Algeciras is Spain's leading commercial port, with {{convert|60000000|tonne|ST}} of cargo in 2004.<ref>{{cite book |last=Barragán Muñoz |first=Juan Manuel |author2=Chica Ruiz, Adolfo |author3=Pérez Cayeiro, Maria Luisa |publisher=Consejería de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía |title=Propuesta de Estrategia Andaluza de Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras |isbn=978-84-96776-06-7 |page=255 |chapter=3 |year=2008 |language=es}}</ref> Seville has Spain's only commercial river port. Other significant commercial ports in Andalusia are the ports of the ], Almería and Huelva. | |||
The Council of Government has approved a Plan of Infrastructures for the Sustainability of Transport in Andalusia (PISTA) 2007–2013, which plans an investment of 30 billion euros during that period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ecoticias.com/20080916-andalucia-el-plan-de-infraestructuras-para-el-transporte-sostenible-preve-una-inversion-de-30000-millones.html |title=Andalucía. El Plan de Infraestructuras para el transporte sostenible prevé una inversión de 30.000 millones |access-date=11 December 2009 |date=16 September 2008 |work=Ecoticias.com |language=es |archive-date=19 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919194831/http://www.ecoticias.com/20080916-andalucia-el-plan-de-infraestructuras-para-el-transporte-sostenible-preve-una-inversion-de-30000-millones.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><!-- this is not a strong citation, a better one would be welcome --> | |||
===Energy infrastructure=== | |||
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The lack of high-quality ]s in Andalusia has led to a strong dependency on ] imports. Still, Andalusia has a strong potential for the development of ], above all ]. The Andalusian Energy Agency established in 2005 by the autonomous government, is a new governmental organ charged with the development of energy policy and provision of a sufficient supply of energy for the community.<ref name="infra" /> | |||
The infrastructure for production of ] consists of eight large ]s, more than 70 ] power plants, two ]s, and 14 major ] facilities. Historically, the largest Andalusian business in this sector was the ], founded in 1894, absorbed into ] in 1996. | |||
The ] ] was built by the Andalusian firm ] in ] in the province of Seville, and began operating in March 2007. It is the largest existing solar power facility in Europe.<ref> {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609193111/http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=660&Tipo=&Nombre=Renewable%20energy%20news |date=9 June 2009 }}, RenewableEnergyMagazine.com, 2 April 2007.</ref> Smaller solar power stations, also recent, exist at ] and ], inaugurated by ] and ]. Two more large thermosolar facilities, ], planned at Hoya de ] in the province of Granada are expected to supply electricity to half a million households.<ref name="Andasol2"> {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001704/http://www.energias-renovables.com/paginas/Contenidosecciones.asp?ID=10880&Tipo=&Nombre=Noticias |date=28 September 2007 }}, Energías Renovables, 12 July 2007.</ref> The ] (PSA) in the Tabernas Desert is an important center for the exploration of the solar energy.<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212118/http://www.dlr.de/tt/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2881/4512_read-6631/ |date=26 September 2011 }}, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center. Retrieved 11 December 2009.</ref> | |||
The largest wind power firm in the region is the ], formed by the merger of ] and ] | |||
The ] gas pipeline directly connects the Algerian town of ] to Almería.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.diariodealmeria.es/finanzasyagricultura/Medgaz-une-continentes-Garcia-Lorca_0_1369963357.html |website=] |title=Medgaz une dos continentes con la obra firmada por García Lorca |date=4 July 2019 |first=Elio |last=Sancho}}</ref> | |||
===Education=== | |||
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As throughout Spain, basic education in Andalusia is free and compulsory. Students are required to complete ten years of schooling, and may not leave school before the age of 16, after which students may continue on to a ], to intermediate ], to intermediate-level schooling in arts and design, to intermediate sports studies, or to the working world. | |||
Andalusia has a tradition of higher education dating back to the ] and the ], ], and ]. | |||
{{As of|2009|post=,}} there were ten private or public universities in Andalusia. University studies are structured in cycles, awarding degrees based on ] in accord with the ], which the Andalusian universities are adopting in accord with the other universities of the ]. | |||
===Healthcare=== | |||
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Responsibility for healthcare jurisdictions devolved from the Spanish government to Andalusia with the enactment of the Statute of Autonomy. Thus, the ] (''Servicio Andaluz de Salud'') currently manages almost all public health resources of the Community, with such exceptions as health resources for prisoners and members of the military, which remain under central administration. | |||
===Science and technology=== | |||
According to the Outreach Program for Science in Andalusia, Andalusia contributes 14 percent of Spain's scientific production behind only Madrid and Catalonia among the autonomous communities,<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224071749/http://www.andaluciainvestiga.com/espanol/investigacionAnd/investigacionAnd.asp |date=24 February 2013 }}</ref> even though regional investment in ] (R&D) as a proportion of ] is below the national average.<ref>Plan Andaluz de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación. PAIDI. 1 May 2005.</ref> The lack of research capacity in business and the low participation of the private sector in research has resulted in R&D taking place largely in the public sector. | |||
The Council of Innovation, Science and Business is the organ of the autonomous government responsible for universities, research, technological development, industry, and energy. The council coordinates and initiates scientific and technical innovation through specialized centers an initiatives such as the ] (''Centro Andaluz de Ciencia y Tecnología Marina'') and ] (''Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía''). | |||
Within the private sphere, although also promoted by public administration, technology parks have been established throughout the Community, such as the ] (''Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía'') in ] on the outskirts of Málaga, and ] in Seville. Some of these parks specialize in specific sector, such as {{ill|Aerópolis|es}} in ] or {{ill|Geolit|es}} in ]. The Andalusian government deployed 600,000 ] desktop computers in their schools. | |||
==Media== | |||
Andalusia has international, national, regional, and local media organizations, which are active gathering and disseminating information (as well as creating and disseminating entertainment). | |||
The most notable is the public ] (RTVA), broadcasting on two regional television channels, ] and ], four regional radio stations, Canal Sur Radio, Canal Fiesta Radio, Radio Andalucía Información and Canal Flamenco Radio, as well as various digital signals, most notably ] available on ] throughout Spain.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.andalucia.cc/viva/dimedi.html#Radio |title=Medios de comunicación en Red Andaluza |access-date=8 October 2008 |author=Andalucía Comunidad Cultural |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015041431/http://www.andalucia.cc/viva/dimedi.html#Radio |archive-date=15 October 2008 |url-status=dead}} That web page gives a rather complete listing of Andalusian media organizations.</ref> | |||
===Newspapers=== | |||
Different newspapers are published for each Andalusian provincial capital, ], or important city. Often, the same newspaper organization publishes different local editions with much shared content, with different ] and different local coverage. There are also popular papers distributed without charge, again typically with local editions that share much of their content. | |||
No single Andalusian newspaper is distributed throughout the region, not even with local editions. In eastern Andalusia the ''{{ill|Diario Ideal|es|Ideal (periódico)}}'' has editions tailored for the provinces of Almería, Granada, and Jaén. ] is based in Andalucia, backed by Andalusian capital, and publishes eight daily newspapers there. Efforts to create a newspaper for the entire autonomous region have not succeeded (the most recent as of 2009 was the '']''). The national press ({{Lang|es|]}}, '']'', '']'', etc.) include sections or editions specific to Andalusia. | |||
===Public television=== | |||
]'s headquarters, a former train station in Córdoba.]] | |||
Andalusia has two public television stations, both operated by ] (RTVA): | |||
* ] first broadcast on 28 February 1989 (]). | |||
* ] first broadcast 5 June 1998. Programming focuses on culture, sports, and programs for children and youth. | |||
In addition, RTVA also operates the national and international cable channel Canal Sur Andalucía, which first broadcast in 1996 as Andalucía Televisión. | |||
===Radio=== | |||
There are four public radio stations in the region, all operated by RTVA: | |||
* {{ill|Canal Sur Radio|es}}, first broadcast October 1988. | |||
* {{ill|Radio Andalucía Información|es|Radio Andalucía}}, first broadcast September 1998. | |||
* {{ill|Canal Fiesta Radio|es|Canal Fiesta}}, first broadcast January 2001. | |||
* {{ill|Canal Flamenco Radio|es|Flamenco Radio}}, first broadcast 29 September 2008. | |||
==Art and culture== | |||
] dance and music is native to Andalusia.]] | |||
The patrimony of Andalusia has been shaped by its particular history and geography, as well as its complex flows of population. Andalusia has been home to a succession of peoples and civilizations, many very different from one another, each impacting the settled inhabitants. The ancient ] were followed by ], ]ns and other Eastern Mediterranean traders, ], ], ]. All have shaped the Spanish patrimony in Andalusia, which was already diffused widely in the literary and pictorial genre of the '']''.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Siguan, M. |title=Nueva teoría de Andalucía |year=1969 |journal=Revista de Estudios Agrosociales |number=69 |issn=0034-8155 |pages=7–24 |language=es |hdl=2445/21886}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Gómez, P. |title=Cuestiones sobre la identidad cultural de Andalucía |year=1982 |journal=Gazeta de antropología |number=1 |issn=0214-7564 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
In the 19th century, Andalusian culture came to be widely viewed as the Spanish culture ''par excellence'', in part thanks to the perceptions of ] travellers. In the words of ]: | |||
{{Blockquote|Andalusia, which has never shown the swagger nor petulancy of particularism; that has never pretended to the status of a State apart, is, of all the Spanish regions, the one that possesses a culture most radically its own. Throughout the 19th century, Spain has submitted itself to the hegemonic influence of Andalusia. That century began with the ]; it ended with the assassination of ], ''malagueño'' , and the exaltation of ], no less ''malagueño''. The dominant ideas have an Andalusian accent. One paints Andalusia: a roof-terrace, some flowerpots, blue sky. One reads southern authors. One speaks at all times of the "land of the Most Holy Virgin Mary". The thief from the Sierra Morena and the smuggler are national heroes. All Spain feels its existence justified by the honor of having on its flanks the Andalusian piece of the planet. Around 1900, like so many other things, this changes. The North sits up.<ref>José Ortega y Gasset, {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519152155/http://es.wikisource.org/Teor%C3%ADa_de_Andaluc%C3%ADa_%28versi%C3%B3n_para_imprimir%29 |date=19 May 2011 }}, 1927, online at Wikisource in Spanish.</ref>|Ortega y Gasset, ''Teoría de Andalucía'', 1927}} | |||
===Arts=== | |||
] in the 19th century invented the current ].]] | |||
Andalusia has been the birthplace of many great artists: the classic painters ], ], and ]; the sculptors ], ] and ]; and such modern painters as ] and ]. | |||
The Spanish composer ] was from Cádiz and incorporated typical Andalusian melodies in his works, as did ], from Seville. The great singer ] was born in ], and ] who helped shape the romantic-modernist approach to ], was born in ]. The virtuoso Flamenco guitar player ] who helped internationalize Flamenco, was born in Algeciras, Cadiz. | |||
====Architecture==== | |||
] in ].]] | |||
Since the ] era, Andalusia has preserved important ]s, such as the ]s at the ] and the ], both at ]. Archeologists have found ] cities at ] and ]. Archeological digs at Doña Blanca in ] have revealed the oldest ]ns city in the Iberian peninsula; major ruins have also been revealed at Roman ] near Seville.<ref>{{cite journal |author=AA.VV |title=Reflexiones acerca de las actuaciones llevadas a cabo en la sede administrativa y accesos del Conjunto Arqueológico de Itálica |year=2004 |journal=Mus-A: Revista de los museos de Andalucía |number=3 |issn=1695-7229 |pages=132–137 |url=http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/museos/media/docs/PORTAL_musa_n3.pdf |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Some of the greatest architecture in Andalusia was developed across several centuries and civilizations, and the region is particularly famous for its Islamic and Moorish architecture, which includes the ], ]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bloom |first=Jonathan M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRHbDwAAQBAJ&q=Architecture+of+the+Islamic+West%3A+North+Africa+and+the+Iberian+Peninsula%2C+700-1800&pg=PP1 |title=Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2020 |isbn=9780300218701 |location= |pages=164 |access-date=27 June 2023 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130754/https://books.google.com/books?id=IRHbDwAAQBAJ&q=Architecture+of+the+Islamic+West%3A+North+Africa+and+the+Iberian+Peninsula%2C+700-1800&pg=PP1#v=snippet&q=Architecture%20of%20the%20Islamic%20West%3A%20North%20Africa%20and%20the%20Iberian%20Peninsula%2C%20700-1800&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> and the ] | |||
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The traditional architecture of Andalusia retains its ] with Arab influences brought by ], with a marked Mediterranean character strongly conditioned by the climate. Traditional urban houses are constructed with shared walls to minimize exposure to high exterior temperatures. Solid exterior walls are ] with ] to minimize the heating effects of the sun. In accord with the climate and tradition of each area, the roofs may be ] or tiled in the Roman ] style. One of the most characteristic elements (and one of the most obviously influenced by Roman architecture) is the interior ] or ]; the patios of Córdoba are particularly famous. Other characteristic elements are decorative (and functional) ] ]s and the ]s known as '']s''. Landscaping—both for common private homes and homes on a more lavish scale—also carries on older traditions, with plants, flowers, and fountains, pools, and streams of water. Beyond these general elements, there are also specific local architectural styles, such as the ]s, roofed chimneys, and radically extended ] of the ], the cave dwellings of ] and of Granada's ], or the traditional architecture of the ].<ref>{{cite journal |author=López, J. |author2=López J.S. |title=Arquitectura tradicional en el Marquesado del Zenete |year=2000 |journal=Gazeta de antropología |number=16 |issn=0214-7564 |url=http://www.ugr.es/~pwlac/G16_24JuanSalvador_Lopez-Jaime_Lopez.html |language=es}}</ref> | |||
].]]The monumental architecture of the centuries immediately after the Reconquista often displayed an assertion of Christian hegemony through architecture that referenced non-Arab influences.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} Some of the greatest ] buildings in Andalusia are from the ]: the ], designed in part by ], served as a model for the ] and ];{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} the centers of ] and ], dating largely from this era, are UNESCO ]s. Seville and its kingdom also figured prominently in this era, as is shown by the ], the ], or the ]. The ] in Granada is uniquely important for its ] purism.<ref>{{cite journal |author=García Vázquez, C. |title=Apuntes para una breve historia de la arquitectura moderna en Andalucía |year=2005 |journal=Revista de historia y teoría de la arquitectura |number=6–7 |issn=1576-5628 |pages=119–138 |language=es}}</ref> Andalusia also has such ]-era buildings as the ] in Seville (seat of the current autonomic presidency), the ] in ], and the ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Galera, P.A. |chapter=Arquitectura y ciudad en la Andalucía del barroco |title=Andalucía Barroca: exposición itinerante |year=2007 |isbn=978-84-8266-725-6 |pages=62–81 |publisher=Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura |language=es}}</ref> ] gave the region the ] in Seville and ] the nucleus of Cádiz, such as its {{ill|City Hall of Cádiz|lt=city hall|es|Ayuntamiento de Cádiz}}, ], and the ].{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} | |||
] architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed the buildings of the ] in Seville, including the ] ]. Andalusia also preserves an important industrial patrimony related to various economic activities. | |||
Besides the architecture of the cities, there is also much outstanding rural architecture: houses, as well as ranch and farm buildings and ]s.<ref>{{cite book |author=Torices, N. |author2=Zurita, E. |title=Cortijos, haciendas y lagares: arquitectura de las grandes explotaciones agrarias de Andalucía. Provincia de Granada |year=2002 |publisher=Ediciones Ilustres |location=Córdoba |isbn=84-8095-305-5 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
====Sculpture==== | |||
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The ] of ], ], and {{ill|León de Bujalance|ca|Lleona de Bujalance|es|Leona de Bujalance}}, the Phoenician ] of Cádiz, and the ]s of the ] cities such as ] give evidence of traditions of sculpture in Andalusia dating back to antiquity.<ref>{{cite book |author=VV.AA. |title=Escultura ibérica en el Museo Provincial de Jaén |year=1990 |publisher=Consejería de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía |isbn=84-86944-04-X |language=es}}</ref> There are few significant surviving sculptures from the time of ]; two notable exceptions are the lions of the Alhambra and of the ] (the ] hospital in the Albaicín). | |||
The ] dating from the 13th century onward and the ] beginning toward the end of the 16th century both focused primarily on Christian religious subject matter, including many wooden ]s. Notable sculptors in these traditions include ], {{ill|Pedro Millán|es}}, ], ], {{ill|José de Arce|es}}, ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Aroca, F. |title=Aportaciones al estudio del retablo del siglo XVIII en la Baja Andalucía |year=1997 |journal=Laboratorio de Arte: Revista del Departamento de Historia del Arte |number=10 |issn=1130-5762 |pages=233–250 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Non-religious sculpture has also existed in Andalusia since antiquity. A fine example from the Renaissance era is the decoration of the ] in Seville. Nonetheless, non-religious sculpture played a relatively minor role until such 19th-century sculptors as {{ill|Antonio Susillo|es}}. | |||
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As in sculpture, there were {{ill|Sevillian school of painting|lt=Sevillian|es|Escuela sevillana de pintura}} and the {{ill|Granadan school of painting|lt=Granadan|es|Escuela granadina de pintura}} schools of painting. The former has figured prominently in the history of Spanish art since the 15th century and includes such important artists as ], ] and ], as well as art theorists such as ]. The ] and the ]<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bermejo, E. |author2=Valdivieso, E. |title=Historia de la pintura sevillana, siglos XIII al XX. Sevilla, 1986 (Book Review) |year=1988 |journal=Archivo español de arte |volume=61 |number=241 |issn=0004-0428 |pages=89–90 |language=es}}</ref> contain numerous representative works of the Sevillian school of painting. | |||
A specific ] genre known as '']'' depicts traditional and folkloric Andalusian subjects, such as bullfighting scenes, dogs, and scenes from Andalusia's history. Important artists in this genre include ], ], ] and ]. The genre is well represented in the private ], part of which is on display at Madrid's ] and ] in Málaga.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/romanticismo/actas_pdf/romanticismo_6/reina.pdf |title=El costumbrismo en la pintura sevillana del siglo XIX |access-date=9 October 2008 |work=Cervantesvirtual.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916013953/http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portal/romanticismo/actas_pdf/romanticismo_6/reina.pdf |archive-date=16 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Málaga also has been and is an important artistic center. Its most illustrious representative was ], one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The city has a ] and ], dedicated to the painter. | |||
===Literature and philosophy=== | |||
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Andalusia plays a significant role in the history of Spanish-language literature, although not all of the important literature associated with Andalusia was written in Spanish. Before 1492, there was the literature written in ]. Hispano-Arabic authors native to the region include ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]<ref>{{cite journal |author=Garulo, T. |author2=Rubiera Mata M.ªJ. |title=Literatura hispanoárabe (Book Review) |year=1993 |journal=Al-Qantara |volume=14 |number=1 |issn=0211-3589 |pages=245–248}}</ref> or Andalusian Hebrew poets as ]. ], of the 12th century, crafted poems in the colloquial Andalusian language.<ref name="Robinson263">{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Francis |title=The Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780521435109 |url-access=registration |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1999 |page= |isbn=0-521-66993-6}}</ref> | |||
In 1492 ] published his celebrated '']'' ("Grammar of the Castilian language"), the first such work for a modern European language. In 1528 ] wrote '']'', a novel in the orbit of '']'', and in 1599 the Sevillian ] wrote the first part of '']'', the first ] with a known author. | |||
The prominent ] literary school of Seville included such writers as ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. The Córdoban ] was the greatest exponent of the '']'' of ] poetry in the ];<ref>{{cite journal |author=Hernández, A. |title=Las dos vertientes del barroco español |year=2004 |journal=Correo del Maestro |volume=8 |number=92 |url=http://www.correodelmaestro.com/anteriores/2004/enero/artistas92.htm |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221031820/http://www.correodelmaestro.com/anteriores/2004/enero/artistas92.htm |archive-date=21 December 2009}}</ref> indeed, the style is often referred to as ''Góngorismo''. | |||
Literary Romanticism in Spain had one of its great centers in Andalusia, with such authors as ], ] and ]. ''Costumbrismo andaluz'' existed in literature as much as in visual art, with notable examples being the ''Escenas andaluzas'' of ] and the works of ]. | |||
Andalusian authors ], ], ] and ], and ] are all generally counted in the ]. Also of this generation were the ], dramatists who faithfully captured ] and idiosyncrasies. Also of note, 1956 ]-winning poet ] was a native of ], near Huelva. | |||
], prominent poet executed by Francoists during the ].]] | |||
A large portion of the '']'' ] who gathered at the ] on the 300th anniversary of Góngora's death were Andalusians: ], ], ], ], ], and 1977 Nobel laureate ].<ref>{{cite journal |author=De Cózar, R. |title=Andalucía y la generación del 27 |year=1993 |journal=Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos |number=514–515 |issn=0011-250X |pages=319–320 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Certain Andalusian fictional characters have become universal archetypes: ]'s gypsy ''Carmen'', ]'s ''Perro'', ]'s ''Fígaro'', and ]'s ''Don Juan''. | |||
As in most regions of Spain, the principal form of popular verse is the ], although there are also ]s specific to Andalusia, such as the '']'' or the ''{{ill|soleariya|es||it}}''. Ballads, lullabies, street vendor's cries, nursery rhymes, and work songs are plentiful. | |||
Among the philosophers native to the region can be counted ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. | |||
===Music of Andalusia=== | |||
{{Main|Music of Andalusia}} | |||
{{See also|Music of Spain}} | |||
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The music of Andalusia includes traditional and contemporary music, folk and composed music, and ranges from ] to ]. Conversely, certain metric, melodic and harmonic characteristics are considered Andalusian even when written or performed by musicians from elsewhere. | |||
Flamenco, perhaps the most characteristically Andalusian genre of music and dance, originated in the 18th century, but is based in earlier forms from the region. The influence of the traditional music and dance of the ] or Gypsies is particularly clear. The genre embraces distinct vocal ('']''), guitar ('']''), and dance ('']'') styles.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bäcker, Rolf |title=Lo decisivo fue la mezcla: y esa mezcla sólo ocurrió en Andalucía. Algunas reflexiones acerca de la identidad andaluza en el discurso flamencológico |year=2005 |journal=Nassarre: Revista aragonesa de musicología |volume=21 |number=1 |issn=0213-7305 |pages=109–120 |url=http://www.dpz.es/ifc2/libros/ebook2572.pdf |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006070546/http://www.dpz.es/ifc2/libros/ebook2572.pdf |archive-date=6 October 2007}}</ref> | |||
The Andalusian Statute of Autonomy reflects the cultural importance of flamenco in its Articles 37.1.18 and 68: | |||
{{Blockquote|Guiding principles of public policy: 18th The preservation and enhancement of the cultural, historic and artistic heritage of Andalusia, especially flamenco.<ref>From Article 37.1.18 of the Andalusian Statute of Autonomy: ''Principios rectores de las políticas públicas: 18º La conservación y puesta en valor del patrimonio cultural, histórico y artístico de Andalucía, especialmente del flamenco.''</ref>}} | |||
{{Blockquote|Also within the Autonomous Community (of Andalucia) is the exclusive competence in knowledge, conservation, research, training, promotion and dissemination of flamenco as a unique element of the Andalusian cultural heritage.<ref>From Article 68 of the Andalusian Statute of Autonomy: ''Corresponde asimismo a la Comunidad Autónoma (Andaluza) la competencia exclusiva en materia de conocimiento, conservación, investigación, formación, promoción y difusión del flamenco como elemento singular del patrimonio cultural andaluz.''</ref>}} | |||
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Fundamental in the history of Andalusian music are the composers ], ], ], ], ], ], and {{ill|Manuel Castillo|da|Manuel Castillo|es|Manuel Castillo}}, as well as one of the fathers of modern ], the guitarist ].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ih4tDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA587 |title=The Rough Guide to Andalucia |last=Guides |first=Rough |date=1 May 2015 |publisher=Rough Guides UK |isbn=9780241217481 |language=en |access-date=30 October 2019 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114130838/https://books.google.com/books?id=ih4tDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA587#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Mention should also be made of the great folk artists of the '']'' and the '']'', such as ], ] (''La Faraona'', "the ]"), ] and the revolutionary ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/autor/camaron-de-la-isla/13/ |title=Camarón de la Isla |access-date=10 June 2008 |author=Ferca Network |publisher=Zerobox |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123035752/http://www.flamenco-world.com/tienda/autor/camaron-de-la-isla/13/ |archive-date=23 November 2008}}</ref> | |||
Prominent Andalusian rock groups include ] and ]. The duo ] from ] had international success with their "]", including playing at a ] half-time show in the United States, where their song has also been used as campaign music by the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.antonioburgos.com/sevilla/sevillanos/1999/04/se042599.html |title=Los del Río, o cómo hacerse perdonar el éxito |access-date=10 May 2008 |author=Antonio Burgos |year=1998 |work=S.L. Sevilla, España |publisher=Arco del Postigo |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522051452/http://www.antonioburgos.com/sevilla/sevillanos/1999/04/se042599.html |archive-date=22 May 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> Other notables include the singer, songwriter, and poet ], ], ], who represented Spain at ] in 2002, and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.formulatv.com/1,20080629,8029,1.html |title=Rosa López volverá a representarnos en Eurovisión |access-date=10 June 2008 |date=29 June 2008 |work=FórmulaTV.com |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080702022349/http://www.formulatv.com/1%2C20080629%2C8029%2C1.html |archive-date=2 July 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.valemusic.com/noticia.php?id=491 |title=David Bisbal recibe 5 discos de platino en España y un disco de oro en USA y Puerto Rico |access-date=10 June 2008 |year=2008 |work=Vale Music |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028024000/http://www.valemusic.com/noticia.php?id=491 |archive-date=28 October 2007}}</ref> | |||
On 16 November 2023, ] will host the ] at the ], making Seville the first city outside of the ] to host the ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/seville-spain-cf8138523aa769cc6bbde83acdd80ee4 |title=Latin Grammys to be held in Spain, leaving US for 1st time |website=] |date=22 February 2023 |access-date=23 February 2023 |archive-date=23 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223050020/https://apnews.com/article/seville-spain-cf8138523aa769cc6bbde83acdd80ee4 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
===Film=== | |||
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The portrayal of Andalusia in film is often reduced to archetypes: flamenco, ], Catholic pageantry, ], the property-rich and cash-poor ''señorito andaluz'' and emigrants. These images particularly predominated from the 1920s through the 1960s, and helped to consolidate a clichéd image of the region. In a very different vein, the province of Almería was the filming location for many ], especially (but by no means exclusively) the Italian-directed ]s. During the dictatorship of ], this was the extent of the film industry in Andalusia. | |||
Nonetheless, Andalusian film has roots as far back as ] in the pre-Franco years, and since the ] has brought forth numerous nationally and internationally respected directors: {{ill|Antonio Cuadri|ca|Antonio Cuadri Vides|es|Antonio Cuadri|ru|Куадри, Антонио}} ('']''), ] ('']''), {{ill|Chiqui Carabante|ca|Chiqui Carabante|es|Chiqui Carabante}} ('']''), ] ('']''), ] ('']''), and ] ('']''). | |||
Counting together feature films, documentaries, television programs, music videos etc., Andalusia has boomed from 37 projects shooting in 1999 to 1,054 in 2007, with the figure for 2007 including 19 feature films.<ref>{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, 2008-07-30, www.andaluciafilm.com. Retrieved 16 December 2009.</ref> Although feature films are the most prestigious, commercials and television are currently more economically important to the region. | |||
The {{ill|Filmoteca de Andalucía|es|Filmoteca de Andalucía|fr|Cinémathèque d'Andalousie}}, headquartered in Córdoba, is a government-run entity in charge of the investigation, collection and diffusion of Andalusian cinematic heritage. Other important contributors to this last activity are such annual film festivals as the ], the most important festival dedicated exclusively to cinema made in Spain, the ] (SEFF), the ], the ], the ] in Cádiz, the ] and the ].<!-- Not sure if some of these festivals may have established names in English, which we should use if they do. In Spanish they are: | |||
Festival de cine europeo de Sevilla, | |||
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Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, | |||
Muestra Cinematográfica del Atlántico Alcances, | |||
Festival de cine y televisión de Islantilla, | |||
Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa. | |||
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===Culture=== | |||
====Customs and society==== | |||
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Each sub-region in Andalusia has its own unique customs that represent a fusion of Catholicism and local folklore. Cities like Almería have been influenced historically by both ] and Murcia in the use of traditional head coverings. The ''sombrero de Labrador'', a worker's hat made of black velvet, is a signature style of the region. | |||
In Cádiz, traditional costumes with rural origins are worn at bullfights and at parties on the large estates. The ''tablao flamenco'' dance and the accompanying '']'' vocal style originated in Andalusia and traditionally most often performed by the gypsy (]). One of the most distinctive cultural events in Andalusia is the ] in May. It consists of a pilgrimage to the ] in the countryside near ], in honor of the ], an image of the ].<ref name=travelguides> {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031134621/http://www.visithuelva.com/travelguides/province_elrocio-thepilgrimage.htm |date=31 October 2015 }}, visithuelva.com. Retrieved 15 April 2010.</ref><ref> {{Webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724002341/http://www.hermandadrociosevilla.com/EL%20ROCIO/ |date=24 July 2012 }}, ''passim''. Retrieved 14 April 2010.</ref> In recent times the ''Romería'' has attracted roughly a million pilgrims each year.<ref name="Díaz Pérez">], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226000150/https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2001/CR293/CR293-06.html |date=26 February 2021 }}, ''El Mundo'', 27 May 2001. Retrieved 14 April 2010.</ref> | |||
In ], the ] is a revered form of Spanish religious song, whose form and style has evolved over many centuries. Saetas evoke strong emotion and are sung most often during public processions. ''Verdiales'', based upon the ], are a flamenco music style and song form originating in Almogia, near Málaga. For this reason, the Verdiales are sometimes known as ''Fandangos de Málaga.'' The region also has a rich musical tradition of flamenco songs, or ] called ]. Seville celebrates '']'', one of the better known religious events within Spain. During the festival, religious fraternities dress as penitents and carry large floats of lifelike wooden sculptures representing scenes of the ], and images of the Virgin Mary. ], a type of old folk music sung and written in Seville and still very popular, are performed in fairs and festivals, along with an associated dance for the music, the ''Baile por sevillanas''. All the different regions of Andalusia have developed their own distinctive customs, but all share a connectedness to Catholicism as developed during baroque ] society.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kern |title=The Regions of Spain |year=1995 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=0-313-29224-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/regionsofspainre00kern}}</ref> | |||
====Andalusian Spanish==== | |||
{{Main|Andalusian Spanish}} | |||
]''. In other areas, all three letters are pronounced ({{IPA|/s/}}), which is known as '']''. Still other areas retain the distinction found elsewhere in Spain. Note that the city of ] has seseo.]] | |||
Andalusian Spanish is one of the most widely spoken forms of ] in Spain, and because of emigration patterns was very influential on ]. Rather than a single dialect, it is really a range of dialects sharing some common features; among these is | |||
the retention of more ] words than elsewhere in Spain,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Fernández-Sevilla, Julio |title=Objetividad y subjetividad. Datos para el nombre de un dialecto |year=1976 |journal=Revista de dialectología y tradiciones populares |volume=32 |number=1/4 |issn=0034-7981 |pages=173–184}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=De Cos, F.J. |title=Las variedades lingüísticas en la enseñanza de E/LE: aplicación a la modalidad oral andaluza |year=2006 |journal=RedELE: Revista Electrónica de Didáctica ELE |number=6 |issn=1571-4667 |url=http://www.mepsyd.es/redele/revista6/FJavierdeCos.pdf |access-date=16 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224061518/http://www.mepsyd.es/redele/revista6/FJavierdeCos.pdf |archive-date=24 December 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> as well as some ] compared with ]. The ]es that mark the borders of Andalusian Spanish overlap to form a network of divergent boundaries, so there is no clear border for the linguistic region.<ref>For some maps of various isoglosses, see the online {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928104728/http://www.jotamartin.byethost33.com/alpi0_e.php |date=28 September 2011 }}.</ref> ] promoting an Andalusian language independent from Spanish exists.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.libertaddigital.com/andalucia/2021-09-27/la-extrema-izquierda-andaluza-reivindica-el-andaluh-en-el-senado-6822275/ |title=La extrema izquierda andaluza reivindica el 'andalûh' en el Senado |newspaper=] |date=27 September 2021 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
====Religion==== | |||
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The territory now known as Andalusia fell within the sphere of influence of ancient Mediterranean ] beliefs. Phoenician colonization brought the cults of ] and ]; the latter lasted into Roman times as ], mythical founder of both Cádiz and Seville. The ] held the supposed tomb of Hercules, with representations of his ]; the region was the traditional site of the tenth labor, obtaining the cattle of the monster ]. Traditionally, the ] flank the ]. Clearly, the European pillar is the ]; the African pillar was presumably either ] in ] or ] in ]. The ] that led from Cádiz to Rome was known by several names, one of them being ''{{ill|Via Herculea|fr|Via Herculia|it|Via Herculia|sv|Via Herculea}}'', Hercules route returning from his tenth labor. The present ] shows Hercules between two lions, with two pillars behind these figures. | |||
] is, by far, the largest religion in Andalusia. In 2012, the proportion of ] that identify themselves as Roman Catholic was 78.8%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/vangdata/20150402/54429637154/interactivo-creencias-y-practicas-religiosas-en-espana.html |title=Interactivo: Creencias y prácticas religiosas en España |date=2 April 2015 |access-date=25 January 2017 |archive-date=4 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404024037/http://www.lavanguardia.com/vangdata/20150402/54429637154/interactivo-creencias-y-practicas-religiosas-en-espana.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Spanish Catholic religion constitute a traditional vehicle of Andalusian cultural cohesion,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Opas |first1=Minna |last2=Haapalainen |first2=Anna |title=Christianity and the Limits of Materiality |year=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=UK |isbn=9781474291781 |pages=243}}</ref> and the principal characteristic of the local popular form of Catholicism is devotion to the ]; Andalusia is sometimes known as ''la tierra de María Santísima'' ("the land of Most Holy Mary").<ref>See {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305040134/http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=Tierra |date=5 March 2016 }} in the dictionary of the ].</ref> Also characteristic are the processions during ], in which thousands of ] (known as ''nazarenos'') sing ]. Andalusia is the site of such ] destinations as the {{ill|Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza|ca|Santuari de la Mare de Déu de la Cabeza|de|Wallfahrtskirche Virgen de la Cabeza|es|Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza|it|Basilica di Nostra Signora della Cabeza}} in ] and the ] in ]. | |||
====Bullfighting==== | |||
]: Joselito "El Gallo".]] | |||
While some trace the lineage of the ] back to Roman times, today's fighting bulls in the Iberian peninsula and in the former ] trace back to Andalusia in the 15th and 16th centuries.<ref name=repetida_1>{{cite web |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=638755 |title=Las plazas de toros de Andalucía y su incidencia turística |access-date=6 October 2008 |last1=Cepeda Carrión |first1=Gabriel |first2=María |last2=del Milagro Martín López |page=14 |language=es}}</ref> Andalusia remains a center of bull-rearing and ]: its 227 ''fincas de ganado'' where fighting bulls are raised cover {{convert|146917|ha|acre}}.<ref name=repetida_1 /> In the year 2000, Andalusia's roughly 100 ]s hosted 1,139 '']''.<ref name=repetida_1 /> | |||
The oldest bullring still in use in Spain is the ] '']'' in ], built in 1784. The Andalusian Autonomous Government sponsors the ''Rutas de Andalucía taurina'', a touristic route through the region centered on bullfighting. | |||
====Festivals==== | |||
] of the ] Hermandad de la Paz y Esperanza ("Brotherhood of Peace and Hope"), ], Córdoba.]] | |||
The Andalusian festivals provide a showcase for popular arts and traditional costume. Among the most famous of these are the ] or ''Feria de Abril'' in Seville, now echoed by smaller fairs in Madrid and Barcelona, both of which have many Andalusian immigrants; the '']'' in Málaga; the ] or ''Feria del Caballo'' in Jerez; the {{ill|Corpus Christi in Granada|lt=Feast of Corpus Christi|es|Corpus Christi en Sevilla}} in Granada; the {{ill|Feria de Nuestra Señora de la Salud|es|Feria de Córdoba (España)}} in Córdoba; the ] (''Fiestas Colombinas'') in Huelva; the ] in ]; and the {{ill|Feria de San Lucas|es|Feria de San Lucas (Jaén)}} in Jaén, among many others. | |||
Festivals of a religious nature are a deep Andalusian tradition and are met with great popular fervor. There are numerous major festivals during ]. An annual pilgrimage brings a million visitors to the Hermitage of El Rocío in Almonte (population 16,914 in 2008); similarly large crowds visit the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza in Andújar every April. | |||
Other important festivals are the ] and the ] or ] in Granada and Córdoba; in Córdoba this is combined with a competition for among the ''patios'' (courtyards) of the city. | |||
Andalusia hosts an annual festival for the dance of flamenco in the summer-time. | |||
====Cuisine==== | |||
{{Main|Andalusian cuisine|List of Andalusian food and drink products with protected status}} | |||
]'' served with ''tropezones'' (chopped vegetables).]] | |||
The Andalusian diet varies, especially between the coast and the interior, but in general is a ] based on ], ]s, ]s, ]s, ], ]s and ], and ]; there is also a great tradition of drinking ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Jiménez, C. |author2=López, B. |title=Gastronomía andaluza y dieta mediterránea |year=2000 |publisher=Miramar |location=Málaga |isbn=84-922831-9-X |language=es}}</ref> | |||
]—''pescaíto frito''—and ] are common on the coast and also eaten well into the interior under coastal influence. ] (''Thunnus thynnus'') from the ] areas of the ], ]s from ] (known as ''langostino de Sanlúcar''), and deepwater rose shrimp (''{{Interlanguage link|Parapenaeus longirostris|es}}'') from Huelva are all highly prized. Fishing for the transparent goby or ''chanquete'' ('']''), a once-popular small fish from Málaga, is now banned because the techniques used to catch them trap too many immature fish of ].<ref>Resolución del 20 de junio de 1988 de la Dirección General de Pesca, por la que se establece una pesca indefinida para la pesca del Aphia minuta (chanquete) y similares (BOJA nº57 de 19 de julio de 1988).</ref> | |||
The mountainous regions of the Sierra Morena and Sierra Nevada produce cured ]s, notably including '']'' and '']''. These come from two different types of pig, (''jamón serrano'' from white pigs, the more expensive ''jamón ibérico'' from the ]). There are several ], each with its own specifications including in just which ] region ham of a particular denomination must be cured. '']'' is another mountain specialty, a dish combining ham, sausage, sometimes other pork, egg, potatoes, and olive oil. | |||
] is popular in Andalusia. ]s and ] are common ingredients. Many enclosed ]s of ]s make and sell pastries, especially Christmas pastries: '']s'', '']'', '']'', '']es'', ''{{ill|yemas de San Leandro|es|Yemas de San Leandro|ru|Желтки святого Леандра}}'', as well as '']s'' or ''{{lang|es|tejeringos}}'', ] cookies (''merengadas''), and ''{{ill|amarguillo|lt=amarguillos|es|amarguillo}}''. | |||
Cereal-based dishes include ''] de harina'' in eastern Andalusia (a similar dish to ] rather than the fried breadcrumb based ''migas'' elsewhere in Spain) and a sweeter, more aromatic porridge called '']'' in western Andalusia. | |||
Vegetables form the basis of such dishes as ''{{lang|es|]}}'' (similar to ''ratatouille'') and the chopped salad known as ''{{lang|es|]}}'' or ''{{lang|es|piriñaca}}''. Hot and cold soups based in olive oil, garlic, bread, tomato and peppers include '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', or—using almonds instead of tomato—'']''.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Moreno, J. |title=Productos americanos y gastronomía andaluza: el gazpacho |year=1998 |journal=Isla de Arriarán: Revista cultural y científica |number=11 |issn=1133-6293 |pages=423–440 |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/fichero_articulo?codigo=2571410&orden=0 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Wine has a privileged place at the Andalusian table. Andalusian wines are known worldwide, especially ]s such as ] (''jerez''), aged in ]s. These are enormously varied; for example, dry sherry may be the very distinct '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', or '']'' and each of these varieties can each be sweetened with ] or ] to produce a different variety of sweet sherry.<ref>{{cite book |last=Iglesias Rodríguez |first=Juan José (coor.) |title=Historia y cultura del vino en Andalucía |year=1995 |publisher=Universidad de Sevilla |isbn=84-472-0210-0 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Moreno, I. |chapter=La cultura del vino en Andalucía: identidades socioculturales y culturas del trabajo |title=Historia y cultura del vino en Andalucía |publisher=Ed. J.J. Iglesias |year=1995 |isbn=84-472-0210-0 |pages=179–200 |language=es}}</ref> Besides sherry, Andalucía has five other ] for wine: ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name=MAPA-DO>For greater specificity on the denominaciones de origen, see {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110306042138/http://www.mapa.es/es/alimentacion/pags/denominacion/consulta.asp |date=6 March 2011 }}, in Spanish.</ref> Most Andalusian wine comes from one of these regions, but there are other historic wines without a ], for example ], ], ] and ]. | |||
Andalusia also produces D.O. ] and ]: ] and ].<ref name=MAPA-DO /> | |||
====Other traditions==== | |||
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The traditional dress of 18th-century Andalusia was strongly influenced by ''{{lang|es|]}}'' within the context of '']'' (purism, traditionalism, authenticity). The archetype of the ''majo'' and ''maja'' was that of a bold, pure Spaniard from a lower-class background, somewhat flamboyant in his or her style of dress. This emulation of lower-class dress also extended to imitating the clothes of brigands and ] ("Gypsy") women.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} | |||
The ] <!-- that's the name the institution itself uses in English, including the Spanish spelling "Sevilla" --> has collected representative samples of a great deal of the history of Andalusian dress, including examples of such notable types of hat as the ''], ''], '']'' and the ''{{ill|pavero|es|pavero}}'', as well as the '']'' and '']''. | |||
Andalusia has a great artisan tradition in ], ] (''see ]''), ] (especially of the heavy '']'' cloth), ], and ]s (especially in Jaén, Granada, and Almería), ] (especially Granada and Huelva), ] (in ]), ], ], and ] in ], many of these traditions a heritage of the long period of Muslim rule.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Caravaca, I. |title=La artesanía andaluza |year=1986 |journal=Revista de estudios andaluces |number=7 |issn=0212-8594 |pages=37–50 |doi=10.12795/rea.1986.i07.02 |language=es |doi-access=free}}</ref> | |||
Andalusia is also known for its dogs, particularly the ], which was originally bred in the region. Dogs, not just andalusian hounds, are very popular in the region. | |||
Andalusian equestrianism, institutionalized in the ] is known well beyond the borders of Spain. The ] is strongly built, compact yet elegant, distinguished in the area of ] and ], and is also an excellent horse for ]. They are known for their elegant "dancing" ].<ref> {{Webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215100745/http://www.realescuela.org/home.htm |date=15 December 2009 }}, official site.</ref> | |||
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px"> | |||
File:Alhambra - decorazioni2.JPG|Tiles from the Alhambra. | |||
File:Andalusian, in "Majo" dress.jpg|Andalusian, in "Majo" dress | |||
File:Conjunto sombreros.jpg|alt=Sombreros cordobeses|''Sombreros cordobeses''. | |||
File:Chorromujo.jpg|alt=Sombrero de catite|''Sombrero de catite''. | |||
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==Sports== | |||
===Team sports=== | |||
] is the stadium of ], one of four Andalusian clubs in ].]] | |||
In Andalusia, as throughout Spain, ] is the predominant sport. Introduced to Spain by ] men who worked in mining for ] in the province of Huelva, the sport soon became popular with the local population. As Spain's oldest existing football club, ], founded 1889, is known as ''El Decano'' ("the Dean").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lfp.es/competiciones/2007-08/primera/equipo.asp?equ=rhu |title=Año fundación del Recreativo de Huelva |access-date=7 October 2008 |publisher=Liga de Fútbol Profesional (España) |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418072641/http://www.lfp.es/competiciones/2007-08/primera/equipo.asp?equ=rhu |archive-date=18 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
For the 2024–2025 season, two Andalusian clubs compete in Spain's First Division '']'': ] and ]. Betis won La Liga in ] and Sevilla in the 1945–46 season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lfp.es/historico/primera/clasificaciones/palmares.asp |title=Palmarés |publisher=Liga de Fútbol Profesional |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730224245/http://www.lfp.es/historico/primera/clasificaciones/palmares.asp |archive-date=30 July 2008}}</ref><ref> {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108100401/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/supercup/history/season%3D2006/intro.html |date=8 January 2010 }}, 25 August 2006, UEFA.com. Retrieved 17 December 2009.</ref> There are five Andalusian clubs playing in the ]: ], ], ], ], and ]. | |||
The ] is not in any league, and plays only ]. In recent years, they have played mostly during the Christmas break of the football leagues. They play mostly against national teams from other countries, but would not be eligible for international league play, where Spain is represented by a single national team. | |||
In recent decades, ] has become increasingly popular, with ], also known as '''Unicaja Málaga''' who have won the ] in 2007 and the ] in 2001 and usually play the ], ] (Banca Cívica) and ] competing at the top level in the ].<ref>For a detailed history of basketball in Andalucia, see: {{cite book |last=Gallardo Rodríguez |first=Miguel |title=75 años de historia del baloncesto andaluz |year=2006 |publisher=Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Turismo, Comercio y Deporte. Instituto Andaluz del Deporte |isbn=84-689-6145-0 |language=es}}</ref> | |||
Unlike basketball, ] has never really taken off in Andalusia. There is one Andalusian team in the ], Spain's premier handball league: ], playing in the ]. | |||
Andalusia's strongest showing in sports has been in ]. There are two professional teams: ] and ], the latter being Spain's leading table tennis team, with more than 20 league championships in nearly consecutive years and 14 consecutive Copas del Rey, dominating the ]. Cajasur is also one of the league's leading teams.<ref>. Retrieved 17 December 2009 cites for the current prominent status of these teams.</ref>{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} <!-- need citation for the championships --> | |||
===Olympics=== | |||
] was constructed as part of ]'s bid to host the Summer Olympics]] | |||
220 Andalusian athletes have competed in a total of 16 summer or winter ]. The first was ], part of the silver medal-winning ] team at the ] in ], ].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Polo Encyclopedia, 2d Ed. |last=Laffaye |first=Horace A. |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-7864-9577-1 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |pages=95}}</ref> | |||
In all, Andalusians have won six gold medals, 11 silver, and two bronze. Winners of multiple medals include the Córdoban ] ] (bronze in the ] at ], ], US, and silver in the ] in ], Australia); sailor ], Malagueña by adoption (gold medals at ] in ] and Atlanta in 1996). Other notable winners have been Granadan ] player ] (silver in the men's singles of the ] in ] in ]), Jerezano riders ] and ] (silver in ] in ] in ]) and the ] ] from ] (silver in ] in ]). | |||
The largest number of Olympic appearances were by the Malagueña swimmer ] (five appearances), the Granadan skier ] (four), the Sevillian rider ] (four), and the Sevillian rower ] (four, including a silver at ], ], US, in ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fundacionandaluciaolimpica.org/index_cont.php?xid=35 |title=Andalucía en los Juegos Olímpicos |access-date=8 October 2008 |work=Fundación Andalucía Olímpica |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610022321/http://www.fundacionandaluciaolimpica.org/index_cont.php?xid=35 |archive-date=10 June 2008}}</ref> | |||
Seville has been a pre-candidate to host the Summer Olympics in two occasions, 2004 and 2008, and Granada has been a pre-candidate to host the winter Olympics; neither has ever succeeded in its candidature. The ski resort of ], near Granada, has however hosted the ], and Granada hosted the ]. | |||
===Other sports=== | |||
Other sporting events in Andalusia include ], ] and ] competitions at ], various ] tournaments at courses along the coast, and ] and polo at several locations in the interior. Andalusia hosted the ] (Seville), the ] (Almería) and the ] (Granada), among other major events. There is also the annual ] bicycle road race and the ]. The ], located near ], hosts the ]. | |||
==Twinning and covenants== | |||
Andalusia has had a ] relationship with ] (]), since 2001;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/internacionales/docs/convenios_hermanamientos.pdf |title=Hermanamientos de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706083447/http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/internacionales/docs/convenios_hermanamientos.pdf |archive-date=6 July 2011 |work=official site of Buenos Aires |access-date=4 April 2019 |language=es |url-status=dead}}</ref> and with ]. Also Andalusia has a collaboration agreement with ] (]). | |||
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Autonomous community of Spain This article is about the autonomous community of modern Spain. For the medieval Islamic state which covered most of Iberia, see al-Andalus. For other uses, see Andalusia (disambiguation).Autonomous community in Spain
Andalusia Andalucía (Spanish) | |
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Autonomous community | |
FlagCoat of arms | |
Motto(s): Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad ("Andalusia by itself, for Spain and humanity") | |
Anthem: "La bandera blanca y verde" (English: "The White and Green flag") | |
Map of Spain with Andalusia highlighted | |
Coordinates: 37°18′N 4°36′W / 37.3°N 4.6°W / 37.3; -4.6 | |
Country | Spain |
Formation | 1833 (Creation of Andalusia historic region) |
Statute(s) of Autonomy | 1981 (First Statute) 2007 (Second Statute – in force) |
Capital (and largest city) | Seville |
Province(s) | |
Government | |
• Type | Devolved government in a constitutional monarchy |
• Body | Junta of Andalusia |
• President | Juan Manuel Moreno (PP) |
Legislature | Parliament of Andalusia |
General representation | Parliament of Spain |
Congress seats | 61 of 350 (17.4%) |
Senate seats | 41 of 265 (15.5%) |
Area | |
• Total | 87,599 km (33,822 sq mi) |
• Rank | 2nd |
17.3% of Spain | |
Population | |
• Total | 8,538,376 |
• Rank | 1st in Spain 17.84% of Spain |
Demonym(s) | Andalusian andaluz, -za |
Official language(s) | Spanish |
GDP | |
• Rank | 3rd |
• Total (2022) | €180.224 billion |
• Per capita | €21,091 (17th) |
HDI | |
• HDI (2021) | 0.874 (very high · 14th) |
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Postal code prefixes | |
ISO 3166 code | ES-AN |
Telephone code(s) | +34 95 |
Currency | Euro (€) |
Official holiday | 28 February |
Website | www |
Andalusia (UK: /ˌændəˈluːsiə, -ziə/ AN-də-LOO-see-ə, -zee-ə, US: /-ʒ(i)ə, -ʃ(i)ə/ -zh(ee-)ə, -sh(ee-)ə; Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] , locally also [-ˈsi.a]) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a historical nationality and a national reality. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga, and Seville. Its capital city is Seville, while the seat of its High Court of Justice is the city of Granada.
Andalusia is immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. Gibraltar shares a 1.2 kilometres (3⁄4 mi) land border with the Andalusian portion of the province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the Sierra Morena and the Baetic System, consisting of the Subbaetic and Penibaetic Mountains, separated by the Intrabaetic Basin. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. To the south, the geographic subregion of Upper Andalusia [es] lies mostly within the Baetic System, while Lower Andalusia [es] is in the Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir.
The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس), which in turn may be derived from the Vandals, the Goths or pre-Roman Iberian tribes. The toponym al-Andalus is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new Muslim government of Iberia. These coins, called dinars, were inscribed in both Latin and Arabic. The region's history and culture have been influenced by the Tartessians, Iberians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, Byzantines, Berbers, Arabs, Jews, Romanis and Castilians. During the Islamic Golden Age, Córdoba surpassed Constantinople to be Europe's biggest city, and became the capital of Al-Andalus and a prominent center of education and learning in the world, producing numerous philosophers and scientists. The Crown of Castile conquered and settled the Guadalquivir Valley in the 13th century. The mountainous eastern part of the region (the Emirate of Granada) was subdued in the late 15th century. Atlantic-facing harbors prospered upon trade with the New World. Chronic inequalities in the social structure caused by uneven distribution of land property in large estates induced recurring episodes of upheaval and social unrest in the agrarian sector in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Andalusia has historically been an agricultural region, compared to the rest of Spain and the rest of Europe. Still, the growth of the community in the sectors of industry and services was above average in Spain and higher than many communities in the Eurozone. The region has a rich culture and a strong identity. Many cultural phenomena that are seen internationally as distinctively Spanish are largely or entirely Andalusian in origin. These include flamenco and, to a lesser extent, bullfighting and Hispano-Moorish architectural styles, both of which are also prevalent in some other regions of Spain.
Andalusia's hinterland is the hottest area of Europe, with Córdoba and Seville averaging above 36 °C (97 °F) in summer high temperatures. These high temperatures, typical of the Guadalquivir valley are usually reached between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. (local time), tempered by sea and mountain breezes afterwards. However, during heat waves late evening temperatures can locally stay around 35 °C (95 °F) until close to midnight, and daytime highs of over 40 °C (104 °F) are common.
Etymology
Main article: Etymology of AndalusiaIts present form is derived from the Arabic name for Muslim Iberia, "Al-Andalus". The etymology of the name "Al-Andalus" is disputed, and the extent of Iberian territory encompassed by the name has changed over the centuries. Traditionally it has been assumed to be derived from the name of the Vandals. Since the 1980s, a number of proposals have challenged this contention. Halm, in 1989, derived the name from a Gothic term, *landahlauts, and in 2002, Bossong suggested its derivation from a pre-Roman substrate.
The Spanish place name Andalucía (immediate source of the English Andalusia) was introduced into the Spanish languages in the 13th century under the form el Andalucía. The name was adopted to refer to those territories still under Moorish rule, and generally south of Castilla Nueva and Valencia, and corresponding with the former Roman province hitherto called Baetica in Latin sources. This was a Castilianization of Al-Andalusiya, the adjectival form of the Arabic language al-Andalus, the name given by the Arabs to all of the Iberian territories under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492. The etymology of al-Andalus is itself somewhat debated (see al-Andalus), but in fact it entered the Arabic language before this area came under Moorish rule.
Like the Arabic term al-Andalus, in historical contexts the Spanish term Andalucía or the English term Andalusia do not necessarily refer to the exact territory designated by these terms today. Initially, the term referred exclusively to territories under Muslim control. Later, it was applied to some of the last Iberian territories to be regained from the Muslims, though not always to exactly the same ones. In the Estoria de España (also known as the Primera Crónica General) of Alfonso X of Castile, written in the second half of the 13th century, the term Andalucía is used with three different meanings:
- As a literal translation of the Arabic al-Ándalus when Arabic texts are quoted.
- To designate the territories the Christians had regained by that time in the Guadalquivir valley and in the Kingdoms of Granada and Murcia. In a document from 1253, Alfonso X styled himself Rey de Castilla, León y de toda Andalucía ("King of Castile, León and all of Andalusia").
- To designate the territories the Christians had regained by that time in the Guadalquivir valley until that date (the Kingdoms of Jaén, Córdoba and Seville – the Kingdom of Granada was incorporated in 1492). This was the most common significance in the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period.
From an administrative point of view, Granada remained separate for many years even after the completion of the Reconquista due, above all, to its emblematic character as the last territory regained, and as the seat of the important Real Chancillería de Granada, a court of last resort. Still, the reconquest and repopulation of Granada was accomplished largely by people from the three preexisting Christian kingdoms of Andalusia, and Granada came to be considered a fourth kingdom of Andalusia. The often-used expression "Four Kingdoms of Andalusia" dates back in Spanish at least to the mid-18th century.
Symbols
Main articles: Emblem of Andalusia and Flag of AndalusiaThe Andalusian emblem shows the figure of Hercules and two lions between the two pillars of Hercules that tradition situates on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar. An inscription below, superimposed on an image of the flag of Andalusia reads Andalucía por sí, para España y la Humanidad ("Andalusia for herself, Spain and Humanity"). Over the two columns is a semicircular arch in the colours of the flag of Andalusia, with the Latin words Dominator Hercules Fundator (Lord Hercules is the Founder) superimposed.
The official flag of Andalusia consists of three equal horizontal stripes, coloured green, white, and green respectively; the Andalusian coat of arms is superimposed on the central stripe. Its design was overseen by Blas Infante and approved in the Assembly of Ronda (a 1918 gathering of Andalusian nationalists at Ronda). Blas Infante considered these to have been the colours most used in regional symbols throughout the region's history. According to him, the green came in particular from the standard of the Umayyad Caliphate and represented the call for a gathering of the populace. The white symbolised pardon in the Almohad dynasty, interpreted in European heraldry as parliament or peace. Other writers have justified the colours differently, with some Andalusian nationalists referring to them as the Arbonaida, meaning white-and-green in Mozarabic, a Romance language that was spoken in the region in Muslim times. Nowadays, the Andalusian government states that the colours of the flag evoke the Andalusian landscape as well as values of purity and hope for the future.
The anthem of Andalusia was composed by José del Castillo Díaz (director of the Municipal Band of Seville, commonly known as Maestro Castillo) with lyrics by Blas Infante. The music was inspired by Santo Dios, a popular religious song sung at harvest time by peasants and day labourers in the provinces of Málaga, Seville, and Huelva. Blas Infante brought the song to Maestro Castillo's attention; Maestro Castillo adapted and harmonized the traditional melody. The lyrics appeal to the Andalusians to mobilise and demand tierra y libertad ("land and liberty") by way of agrarian reform and a statute of autonomy within Spain.
The Parliament of Andalusia voted unanimously in 1983 that the preamble to the Statute of Autonomy recognise Blas Infante as the Father of the Andalusian Nation (Padre de la Patria Andaluza), which was reaffirmed in the reformed Statute of Autonomy submitted to popular referendum 18 February 2007. The preamble of the present 2007 Statute of Autonomy says that Article 2 of the present Spanish Constitution of 1978 recognises Andalusia as a nationality. Later, in its articulation, it speaks of Andalusia as a "historic nationality" (Spanish: nacionalidad histórica). It also cites the 1919 Andalusianist Manifesto of Córdoba describing Andalusia as a "national reality" (realidad nacional), but does not endorse that formulation. Article 1 of the earlier 1981 Statute of Autonomy defined it simply as a "nationality" (nacionalidad).
The national holiday, Andalusia Day, is celebrated on 28 February, commemorating the 1980 autonomy referendum.
The honorific title of Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía ("Favourite Son of Andalusia") is granted by the Autonomous Government of Andalusia to those whose exceptional merits benefited Andalusia, for work or achievements in natural, social, or political science. It is the highest distinction given by the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
Geography
The Sevillian historian Antonio Domínguez Ortiz wrote that:
one must seek the essence of Andalusia in its geographic reality on the one hand, and on the other in the awareness of its inhabitants. From the geographic point of view, the whole of the southern lands is too vast and varied to be embraced as a single unit. In reality there are not two, but three Andalusias: the Sierra Morena, the Valley and the Penibética
Location
Andalusia has a surface area of 87,597 square kilometres (33,821 sq mi), 17.3% of the territory of Spain. Andalusia alone is comparable in extent and in the variety of its terrain to any of several of the smaller European countries. To the east is the Mediterranean Sea; to the west Portugal and the Gulf of Cádiz (Atlantic Ocean); to the north the Sierra Morena constitutes the border with the Meseta Central; to the south, the self-governing British overseas territory of Gibraltar and the Strait of Gibraltar separate it from Morocco.
Climate
Andalusia is home to the hottest and driest climates in Spain, with yearly average rainfall around 150 millimetres (5.9 in) in Cabo de Gata, as well as some of the wettest ones, with yearly average rainfall above 2,000 millimetres (79 in) in inland Cádiz. In the west, weather systems sweeping in from the Atlantic ensure that it is relatively wet and humid in the winter, with some areas receiving copious amounts. Contrary to what many people think, as a whole, the region enjoys above-average yearly rainfall in the context of Spain.
Andalusia sits at a latitude between 36° and 38° 44' N, in the warm-temperate region. In general, it experiences a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, with dry summers influenced by the Azores High, but subject to occasional torrential rains and extremely hot temperatures. In the winter, the tropical anticyclones move south, allowing cold polar fronts to penetrate the region. Still, within Andalusia there is considerable climatic variety. From the extensive coastal plains one may pass to the valley of the Guadalquivir, barely above sea level, then to the highest altitudes in the Iberian peninsula in the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. In a mere 50 km (31 mi) one can pass from the subtropical coast of the province of Granada to the snowy peaks of Mulhacén. Andalusia also includes both the dry Tabernas Desert in the province of Almería and the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park in the province of Cádiz, which experiences one of highest rainfall in Spain.
Annual rainfall in the Sierra de Grazalema has been measured as high as 4,346 millimetres (171.1 in) in 1963, the highest ever recorded for any location in Iberia. Andalusia is also home to the driest place in Europe, the Cabo de Gata, with only 156 millimetres (6.1 in) of rain per year.
In general, as one goes from west to east, away from the Atlantic, there is less precipitation. "Wet Andalusia" includes most of the highest points in the region, above all the Sierra de Grazalema but also the Serranía de Ronda in western Málaga. The valley of the Guadalquivir has moderate rainfall. The Tabernas Desert in Almería has less than 300 millimetres (12 in) annually. Much of "dry Andalusia" has more than 300 sunny days a year.
The average temperature in Andalusia throughout the year is over 16 °C (61 °F). Averages in the cities range from 15.1 °C (59.2 °F) in Baeza to 19.2 °C (66.6 °F) in Seville. However, a small region on the Mediterranean coast of Almeria and Granada provinces have average annual temperature over 20 °C (68 °F). Much of the Guadalquivir valley and the Mediterranean coast has an average of about 18 °C (64 °F). The coldest month is January when Granada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada experiences an average temperature of 6.4 °C (43.5 °F). The hottest are July and August, with an average temperature of 28.5 °C (83.3 °F) for Andalusia as a whole. Córdoba is the hottest provincial capital, followed by Seville.
The Guadalquivir valley has experienced some of the highest temperatures recorded in Europe, with a maximum of 47.6 °C (117.7 °F) recorded at La Rambla, Córdoba (14 August 2021). The mountains of Granada and Jaén have the coldest temperatures in southern Iberia, but do not reach continental extremes (and, indeed are surpassed by some mountains in northern Spain). In the cold snap of January 2005, Santiago de la Espada (Jaén) experienced a temperature of −21 °C (−6 °F) and the ski resort at Sierra Nevada National Park—the southernmost ski resort in Europe—dropped to −18 °C (0 °F). Sierra Nevada Natural Park has Iberia's lowest average annual temperature, (3.9 °C or 39.0 °F at Pradollano) and its peaks remain snowy practically year-round.
Location | Coldest month | April | Warmest month | October |
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Almería | 16.9 °C (62.4 °F)/ 8.3 °C (46.9 °F) | 24.1 °C (75.4 °F)/ 15.3 °C (59.5 °F) | 31.0 °C (87.8 °F)/ 22.4 °C (72.3 °F) | 24.5 °C (76.1 °F)/ 16.3 °C (61.3 °F) |
Cádiz | 16.0 °C (60.8 °F)/ 9.4 °C (48.9 °F) | 19.9 °C (67.8 °F)/ 13.7 °C (56.7 °F) | 27.9 °C (82.2 °F)/ 22.0 °C (71.6 °F) | 23.4 °C (74.1 °F)/ 17.3 °C (63.1 °F) |
Córdoba | 14.9 °C (58.8 °F)/ 3.6 °C (38.5 °F) | 22.8 °C (73.0 °F)/ 9.3 °C (48.7 °F) | 36.9 °C (98.4 °F)/ 19.0 °C (66.2 °F) | 25.1 °C (77.2 °F)/ 13.0 °C (55.4 °F) |
Granada | 12.6 °C (54.7 °F)/ 1.1 °C (34.0 °F) | 19.5 °C (67.1 °F)/ 6.8 °C (44.2 °F) | 34.2 °C (93.6 °F)/ 17.7 °C (63.9 °F) | 22.6 °C (72.7 °F)/ 10.1 °C (50.2 °F) |
Huelva | 16.2 °C (61.2 °F)/ 5.9 °C (42.6 °F) | 22.0 °C (71.6 °F)/ 10.3 °C (50.5 °F) | 32.7 °C (90.9 °F)/ 18.9 °C (66.0 °F) | 24.9 °C (76.8 °F)/ 14.1 °C (57.4 °F) |
Jaén | 12.1 °C (53.8 °F)/ 5.1 °C (41.2 °F) | 19.0 °C (66.2 °F)/ 10.0 °C (50.0 °F) | 33.7 °C (92.7 °F)/ 21.4 °C (70.5 °F) | 21.9 °C (71.4 °F)/ 13.8 °C (56.8 °F) |
Jerez | 16.2 °C (61.2 °F)/ 5.2 °C (41.4 °F) | 22.2 °C (72.0 °F)/ 9.8 °C (49.6 °F) | 33.5 °C (92.3 °F)/ 18.7 °C (65.7 °F) | 25.5 °C (77.9 °F)/ 13.7 °C (56.7 °F) |
Málaga | 16.8 °C (62.2 °F)/ 7.4 °C (45.3 °F) | 21.4 °C (70.5 °F)/ 11.1 °C (52.0 °F) | 30.8 °C (87.4 °F)/ 21.1 °C (70.0 °F) | 24.1 °C (75.4 °F)/ 15.0 °C (59.0 °F) |
Seville | 16.0 °C (60.8 °F)/ 5.7 °C (42.3 °F) | 23.4 °C (74.1 °F)/ 11.1 °C (52.0 °F) | 36.0 °C (96.8 °F)/ 20.3 °C (68.5 °F) | 26.0 °C (78.8 °F)/ 14.4 °C (57.9 °F) |
Tarifa | 15.1 °C (59.2 °F)/ 10.9 °C (51.6 °F) | 17.3 °C (63.1 °F)/ 13.0 °C (55.4 °F) | 24.5 °C (76.1 °F)/ 20.0 °C (68.0 °F) | 20.6 °C (69.1 °F)/ 16.7 °C (62.1 °F) |
Terrain
Mountain ranges affect climate, the network of rivers, soils and their erosion, bioregions, and even human economies insofar as they rely on natural resources. The Andalusian terrain offers a range of altitudes and slopes. Andalusia has the Iberian peninsula's highest mountains and nearly 15 percent of its terrain over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). The picture is similar for areas under 100 metres (330 ft) (with the Baetic Depression), and for the variety of slopes.
The Atlantic coast is overwhelmingly beach and gradually sloping coasts; the Mediterranean coast has many cliffs, above all in the Malagan Axarquía and in Granada and Almería. This asymmetry divides the region naturally into Upper Andalusia [es] (two mountainous areas) and Lower Andalusia [es] (the broad basin of the Guadalquivir).
The Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. Although sparsely populated, this is not a particularly high range, and its highest point, the 1,323-metre (4,341 ft) peak of La Bañuela in the Sierra Madrona, lies outside of Andalusia. Within the Sierra Morena, the gorge of Despeñaperros forms a natural frontier between Castile and Andalusia.
The Baetic Cordillera consists of the parallel mountain ranges of the Cordillera Penibética near the Mediterranean coast and the Cordillera Subbética inland, separated by the Surco Intrabético. The Cordillera Subbética is quite discontinuous, offering many passes that facilitate transportation, but the Penibético forms a strong barrier between the Mediterranean coast and the interior. The Sierra Nevada, part of the Cordillera Penibética in the province of Granada, has the highest peaks in Iberia: El Mulhacén at 3,478 metres (11,411 ft) and El Veleta at 3,392 metres (11,129 ft).
Lower Andalusia, the Baetic Depression, the basin of the Guadalquivir, lies between these two mountainous areas. It is a nearly flat territory, open to the Gulf of Cádiz in the southwest. Throughout history, this has been the most populous part of Andalusia.
Hydrography
Andalusia has rivers that flow into both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Flowing to the Atlantic are the Guadiana, Odiel-Tinto, Guadalquivir, Guadalete, and Barbate. Flowing to the Mediterranean are the Guadiaro, Guadalhorce, Guadalmedina, Guadalfeo, Andarax (also known as the Almería) and Almanzora. Of these, the Guadalquivir is the longest in Andalusia and fifth longest on the Iberian peninsula, at 657 kilometres (408 mi).
The rivers of the Atlantic basin are characteristically long, run through mostly flat terrain, and have broad river valleys. As a result, at their mouths are estuaries and wetlands, such as the marshes of Doñana in the delta of the Guadalquivir, and wetlands of the Odiel. In contrast, the rivers of the Mediterranean Basin are shorter, more seasonal, and make a precipitous descent from the mountains of the Baetic Cordillera. Their estuaries are small, and their valleys are less suitable for agriculture. Also, being in the rain shadow of the Baetic Cordillera means that they receive a lesser volume of water.
The following hydrographic basins can be distinguished in Andalusia. On the Atlantic side are the Guadalquivir basin; the Andalusian Atlantic Basin with the sub-basins Guadalete-Barbate and Tinto-Odiel; and the Guadiana basin. On the Mediterranean side is the Andalusian Mediterranean Basin and the upper portion of the basin of the Segura.
Soils
The soils of Andalusia can be divided into three large areas: the Sierra Morena, Cordillera Subbética, and the Baetic Depression and the Surco Intrabético.
The Sierra Morena, due to its morphology and the acidic content of its rocks, developed principally relatively poor, shallow soils, suitable only for forests. In the valleys and in some areas where limestone is present, deeper soils allowed farming of cereals suitable for livestock. The more complicated morphology of the Baetic Cordillera makes it more heterogeneous, with the most heterogeneous soils in Andalusia. Very roughly, in contrast to the Sierra Morena, a predominance of basic (alkaline) materials in the Cordillera Subbética, combined with a hilly landscape, generates deeper soils with greater agricultural capacity, suitable to the cultivation of olives.
Finally, the Baetic Depression and the Surco Intrabético have deep, rich soils, with great agricultural capacity. In particular, the alluvial soils of the Guadalquivir valley and plain of Granada have a loamy texture and are particularly suitable for intensive irrigated crops. In the hilly areas of the countryside, there is a double dynamic: the depressions have filled with older lime-rich material, developing the deep, rich, dark clay soils the Spanish call bujeo, or tierras negras andaluzas, excellent for dryland farming. In other zones, the whiter albariza provides an excellent soil for vineyards.
Despite their marginal quality, the poorly consolidated soils of the sandy coastline of Huelva and Almería have been successfully used in recent decades for hothouse cultivation under clear plastic of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and other fruits.
Flora
Biogeographically, Andalusia forms part of the Western Mediterranean subregion of the Mediterranean Basin, which falls within the Boreal Kingdom. Five floristic provinces lie, in whole or in part, within Andalusia: along much of the Atlantic coast, the Lusitanian-Andalusian littoral or Andalusian Atlantic littoral; in the north, the southern portion of the Luso-Extremaduran floristic province; covering roughly half of the region, the Baetic floristic province; and in the extreme east, the Almerian portion of the Almerian-Murcian floristic province and (coinciding roughly with the upper Segura basin) a small portion of the Castilian-Maestrazgan-Manchegan floristic province. These names derive primarily from past or present political geography: "Luso" and "Lusitanian" from Lusitania, one of three Roman provinces in Iberia, most of the others from present-day Spanish provinces, and Maestrazgo being a historical region of northern Valencia.
In broad terms, the typical vegetation of Andalusia is Mediterranean woodland, characterized by leafy xerophilic perennials, adapted to the long, dry summers. The dominant species of the climax community is the holly oak (Quercus ilex). Also abundant are cork oak (Quercus suber), various pines, and Spanish fir (Abies pinsapo). Due to cultivation, olive (Olea europaea) and almond (Prunus dulcis) trees also abound. The dominant understory is composed of thorny and aromatic woody species, such as rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), thyme (Thymus), and Cistus. In the wettest areas with acidic soils, the most abundant species are the oak and cork oak, and the cultivated Eucalyptus. In the woodlands, leafy hardwoods of genus Populus (poplars, aspens, cottonwoods) and Ulmus (elms) are also abundant; poplars are cultivated in the plains of Granada.
The Andalusian woodlands have been much altered by human settlement, the use of nearly all of the best land for farming, and frequent wildfires. The degraded forests become shrubby and combustible garrigue. Extensive areas have been planted with non-climax trees such as pines. There is now a clear conservation policy for the remaining forests, which survive almost exclusively in the mountains.
Fauna
The biodiversity of Andalusia extends to its fauna as well. More than 400 of the 630 vertebrate species extant in Spain can be found in Andalusia. Spanning the Mediterranean and Atlantic basins, and adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar, Andalusia is on the migratory route of many of the numerous flocks of birds that travel annually from Europe to Africa and back.
The Andalusian wetlands host a rich variety of birds. Some are of African origin, such as the red-knobbed coot (Fulica cristata), the purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), and the greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus). Others originate in Northern Europe, such as the greylag goose (Anser anser). Birds of prey (raptors) include the Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti), the griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), and both the black and red kite (Milvus migrans and Milvus milvus).
Among the herbivores, are several deer (Cervidae) species, notably the fallow deer (Dama dama) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus); the European mouflon (Ovis aries musimon), a feral sheep; and the Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica, which despite its scientific name is no longer found in the Pyrenees). The Spanish ibex has recently been losing ground to the Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia), an invasive species from Africa, introduced for hunting in the 1970s. Among the small herbivores are rabbits—especially the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)—which form the most important part of the diet of the carnivorous species of the Mediterranean woodlands.
The large carnivores such as the Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) and the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) are quite threatened, and are limited to the Sierra de Andújar, inside of Sierra Morena, Doñana and Despeñaperros. Stocks of the wild boar (Sus scrofa), on the other hand, have been well preserved because they are popular with hunters. More abundant and in varied situations of conservation are such smaller carnivores as otters, dogs, foxes, the European badger (Meles meles), the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the least weasel (Mustela nivalis), the European wildcat (Felis silvestris), the common genet (Genetta genetta), and the Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon).
Other notable species are Acherontia atropos (a variety of death's-head hawkmoth), Vipera latasti (a venomous snake), and the endemic (and endangered) fish Aphanius baeticus.
Protected areas
Andalusia has many unique ecosystems. In order to preserve these areas in a manner compatible with both conservation and economic exploitation, many of the most representative ecosystems have been given protected status.
The various levels of protection are encompassed within the Network of Protected Natural Spaces of Andalusia (Red de Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Andalucía, RENPA) which integrates all protected natural spaces located in Andalusia, whether they are protected at the level of the local community, the autonomous community of Andalusia, the Spanish state, or by international conventions. RENPA consists of 150 protected spaces, consisting of two national parks, 24 natural parks, 21 periurban parks (on the fringes of cities or towns), 32 natural sites, two protected countrysides, 37 natural monuments, 28 nature reserves, and four concerted nature reserves (in which a government agency coordinates with the owner of the property for its management), all part of the European Union's Natura 2000 network. Under the international ambit are the nine Biosphere Reserves, 20 Ramsar wetland sites, four Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance and two UNESCO Geoparks.
In total, nearly 20 percent of the territory of Andalusia lies in one of these protected areas, which constitute roughly 30 percent of the protected territory of Spain. Among these many spaces, some of the most notable are the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park, Spain's largest natural park and the second largest in Europe, the Sierra Nevada National Park, Doñana National Park and Natural Park, the Tabernas Desert, and the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, the largest terrestrial-maritime reserve in the European Western Mediterranean Sea.
History
Main article: History of AndalusiaThe geostrategic position of Andalusia, at the southernmost tip of Europe, between Europe and Africa and between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, has made it a hub for various civilizations since the Metal Ages. Its wealth of minerals and fertile land, combined with its large surface area, attracted settlers from the Phoenicians to the Greeks, who influenced the development of early cultures like Los Millares, El Argar, and Tartessos. These early Andalusian societies played a vital role in the region's transition from prehistory to protohistory.
With the Roman conquest, Andalusia became fully integrated into the Roman world as the prosperous province of Baetica, which contributed emperors like Trajan and Hadrian to the Roman Empire. During this time, Andalusia was a key economic center, providing resources and cultural contributions to Rome. Even after the Germanic invasions of Iberia by the Vandals and Visigoths, the region retained much of its Roman cultural and political significance, with figures such as Saint Isidore of Seville maintaining Andalusia's intellectual heritage.
In 711, the Umayyad conquest of Hispania marked a major cultural and political shift, as Andalusia became a focal point of al-Andalus, the Muslim-controlled Iberian Peninsula. The city of Córdoba emerged as the capital of al-Andalus and one of the most important cultural and economic centers of the medieval world. The height of Andalusian prosperity came during the Caliphate of Córdoba, under rulers like Abd al-Rahman III and Al-Hakam II, when the region became known for its advancements in science, philosophy, and architecture. However, the 11th century brought internal divisions with the fragmentation of al-Andalus into taifas—small, independent kingdoms—which allowed the Reconquista to push southwards. By the late 13th century, much of Andalusia had been reconquered by the Crown of Castile, led by monarchs like Ferdinand III of Castile, who captured the fertile Guadalquivir valley. The last Muslim kingdom, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, held out until its defeat in 1492, marking the completion of the Reconquista.
In the centuries following the Reconquista, Andalusia played a central role in Spain's exploration and colonization of the New World. Cities like Seville and Cádiz became major hubs for transatlantic trade. However, despite its global influence during the Spanish Empire, Andalusia experienced economic decline due to a combination of military expenditures and failed industrialization efforts in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the modern era, Andalusia became part of Spain's movement towards autonomy, culminating in its designation as an autonomous community in 1981. Despite its rich history, the region faces challenges in overcoming economic disparities and aligning with the wealthier parts of the European Union.
Government and politics
Andalusia is one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. The Regional Government of Andalusia (Spanish: Junta de Andalucía) includes the Parliament of Andalusia, its chosen president, a Consultative Council, and other bodies.
The Autonomous Community of Andalusia was formed in accord with a referendum of 28 February 1980 and became an autonomous community under the 1981 Statute of Autonomy known as the Estatuto de Carmona. The process followed the Spanish Constitution of 1978, still current as of 2009, which recognizes and guarantees the right of autonomy for the various regions and nationalities of Spain. The process to establish Andalusia as an autonomous region followed Article 151 of the Constitution, making Andalusia the only autonomous community to take that particular course. That article was set out for regions like Andalusia that had been prevented by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War from adopting a statute of autonomy during the period of the Second Spanish Republic.
Article 1 of the 1981 Statute of Autonomy justifies autonomy based on the region's "historical identity, on the self-government that the Constitution permits every nationality, on outright equality to the rest of the nationalities and regions that compose Spain, and with a power that emanates from the Andalusian Constitution and people, reflected in its Statute of Autonomy".
In October 2006 the constitutional commission of the Cortes Generales (the national legislature of Spain), with favorable votes from the left-of-center Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the leftist United Left (IU) and the right-of-center People's Party (PP), approved a new Statute of Autonomy for Andalusia, whose preamble refers to the community as a "national reality" (realidad nacional):
The Andalusianist Manifesto of Córdoba described Andalusia as a national reality in 1919, whose spirit the Andalusians took up outright through the process of self-government recognized in our Magna Carta. In 1978 the Andalusians broadly backed the constitutional consensus. Today, the Constitution, in its Article 2, recognizes Andalusia as a nationality as part of the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation.
— Andalusian Statute of Autonomy on Wikisource, in Spanish
On 2 November 2006 the Spanish Chamber Deputies ratified the text of the Constitutional Commission with 306 votes in favor, none opposed, and 2 abstentions. This was the first time a Spanish Organic Law adopting a Statute of Autonomy was approved with no opposing votes. The Senate, in a plenary session of 20 December 2006, ratified the referendum to be voted upon by the Andalusian public 18 February 2007.
The Statute of Autonomy spells out Andalusia's distinct institutions of government and administration. Chief among these is the Andalusian Autonomous Government (Junta de Andalucía). Other institutions specified in the Statute are the Defensor del Pueblo Andaluz (literally "Defender of the Andalusian People", basically an ombudsperson), the Consultative Council, the Chamber of Accounts, the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia, and the Economic and Social Council.
The Andalusian Statute of Autonomy recognizes Seville as the autonomy's capital. The Andalusian Autonomous Government is located there. The region's highest court, the High Court of Andalusia (Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucía) is not part of the Autonomous Government, and has its seat in Granada.
Autonomous Government
Main article: Andalusian Autonomous GovernmentThe Andalusian Autonomous Government (Junta de Andalucía) is the institution of self-government of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. Within the government, the President of Andalusia is the supreme representative of the autonomous community, and the ordinary representative of the Spanish state in the autonomous community. The president is formally named to the position by the Monarch of Spain and then confirmed by a majority vote of the Parliament of Andalusia. In practice, the monarch always names a person acceptable to the ruling party or coalition of parties in the autonomous region. In theory, were the candidate to fail to gain the needed majority, the monarch could propose a succession of candidates. After two months, if no proposed candidate could gain the parliament's approval, the parliament would automatically be dissolved and the acting president would call new elections. On 18 January 2019 Juan Manuel Moreno was elected as the sixth president of Andalusia.
The Council of Government, the highest political and administrative organ of the Community, exercises regulatory and executive power. The President presides over the council, which also includes the heads of various departments (Consejerías). In the current legislature (2008–2012), there are 15 of these departments. In order of precedence, they are Presidency, Governance, Economy and Treasury, Education, Justice and Public Administration, Innovation, Science and Business, Public Works and Transportation, Employment, Health, Agriculture and Fishing, Housing and Territorial Planning, Tourism, Commerce and Sports, Equality and Social Welfare, Culture, and Environment.
The Parliament of Andalusia, its Autonomic Legislative Assembly, develops and approves laws and elects and removes the President. Elections to the Andalusian Parliament follow a democratic formula through which the citizens elect 109 representatives. After the approval of the Statute of Autonomy through Organic Law 6/1981 on 20 December 1981, the first elections to the autonomic parliament took place 23 May 1982. Further elections have occurred in 1986, 1990, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008.
The current (2008–2012) legislature includes representatives of the PSOE-A (Andalusian branch of the left-of-center PSOE), PP-A (Andalusian branch of the right-of-center PP) and IULV-CA (Andalusian branch of the leftist IU).
Judicial power
The High Court of Andalusia (Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Andalucía) in Granada is subject only to the higher jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Spain. The High Court is not an organ of the Autonomous Community, but rather of the Judiciary of Spain, which is unitary throughout the kingdom and whose powers are not transferred to the autonomous communities. The Andalusian territory is divided into 88 legal/judicial districts (partidos judiciales).
Administrative divisions
Provinces
Andalusia consists of eight provinces. The latter were established by Javier de Burgos in the 1833 territorial division of Spain. Each of the Andalusian provinces bears the same name as its capital:
Province | Capital | Population | Density | Municipalities | Legal districts |
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Almería | Almería | 753,920 | 85.9/km (222/sq mi) | 102 municipalities | 8 |
Cádiz | Cádiz | 1,250,539 | 168.1/km (435/sq mi) | 44 municipalities | 14 |
Córdoba | Córdoba | 773,997 | 56.2/km (146/sq mi) | 75 municipalities | 12 |
Granada | Granada | 930,181 | 73.5/km (190/sq mi) | 170 municipalities | 9 |
Huelva | Huelva | 530,824 | 52.4/km (136/sq mi) | 79 municipalities | 6 |
Jaén | Jaén | 620,242 | 45.9/km (119/sq mi) | 97 municipalities | 10 |
Málaga | Málaga | 1,751,600 | 239.7/km (621/sq mi) | 102 municipalities | 11 |
Seville | Seville | 1,957,210 | 139.4/km (361/sq mi) | 105 municipalities | 15 |
Andalusia is traditionally divided into two historical subregions: Upper Andalusia or Eastern Andalusia (Andalucía Oriental), consisting of the provinces of Almería, Granada, Jaén, and Málaga, and Lower Andalusia or Western Andalusia (Andalucía Occidental), consisting of the provinces of Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva and Seville.
Comarcas and mancomunidades
Within the various autonomous communities of Spain, comarcas are comparable to shires (or, in some countries, counties) in the English-speaking world. Unlike in some of Spain's other autonomous communities, under the original 1981 Statute of Autonomy, the comarcas of Andalusia had no formal recognition, but, in practice, they still had informal recognition as geographic, cultural, historical, or in some cases administrative entities. The 2007 Statute of Autonomy echoes this practice, and mentions comarcas in Article 97 of Title III, which defines the significance of comarcas and establishes a basis for formal recognition in future legislation.
The current statutory entity that most closely resembles a comarca is the mancomunidad, a freely chosen, bottom-up association of municipalities intended as an instrument of socioeconomic development and coordination between municipal governments in specific areas.
Municipalities and local entities
Beyond the level of provinces, Andalusia is further divided into 774 municipalities (municipios). The municipalities of Andalusia are regulated by Title III of the Statute of Autonomy, Articles 91–95, which establishes the municipality as the basic territorial entity of Andalusia, each of which has legal personhood and autonomy in many aspects of its internal affairs. At the municipal level, representation, government and administration is performed by the ayuntamiento (municipal government), which has competency for urban planning, community social services, supply and treatment of water, collection and treatment of waste, and promotion of tourism, culture, and sports, among other matters established by law.
In conformity with the intent to devolve control as locally as possible, in many cases, separate nuclei of population within municipal borders each administer their own interests. These are variously known as pedanías ("hamlets"), villas ("villages"), aldeas (also usually rendered as "villages"), or other similar names.
Demographics
Andalusia ranks first by population among the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. The estimated population at the beginning of 2023 was 8,538,376. The population is concentrated, above all, in the provincial capitals and along the coasts, so that the level of urbanization is quite high; half the population is concentrated in the 28 cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants. The population is aging, although the process of immigration is countering the inversion of the population pyramid.
Main cities
See also: List of cities in Andalusia by population Largest municipalities in Andalusia INE (1 January 2023) | |||||||||
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Rank | Province | Pop. | Rank | Province | Pop. | ||||
Seville Málaga |
1 | Seville | Seville | 684,025 | 11 | Jaén | Jaén | 111,888 | Córdoba Granada |
2 | Málaga | Málaga | 586,384 | 12 | Cádiz | Cádiz | 111,811 | ||
3 | Córdoba | Córdoba | 323,763 | 13 | Roquetas de Mar | Almería | 106,510 | ||
4 | Granada | Granada | 230,595 | 14 | San Fernando | Cádiz | 93,927 | ||
5 | Jerez de la Frontera | Cádiz | 213,231 | 15 | Mijas | Málaga | 91,691 | ||
6 | Almería | Almería | 200,578 | 16 | El Ejido | Almería | 89,975 | ||
7 | Marbella | Málaga | 156,295 | 17 | El Puerto de Santa María | Cádiz | 89,813 | ||
8 | Huelva | Huelva | 142,532 | 18 | Chiclana de la Frontera | Cádiz | 88,709 | ||
9 | Dos Hermanas | Seville | 138,981 | 19 | Fuengirola | Málaga | 85,598 | ||
10 | Algeciras | Cádiz | 123,639 | 20 | Vélez-Málaga | Málaga | 85,377 |
Population change
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1900 | 3,544,769 | — |
1910 | 3,800,299 | +7.2% |
1920 | 4,221,686 | +11.1% |
1930 | 4,627,148 | +9.6% |
1940 | 5,255,120 | +13.6% |
1950 | 5,647,244 | +7.5% |
1960 | 5,940,067 | +5.2% |
1970 | 5,991,076 | +0.9% |
1981 | 6,441,149 | +7.5% |
1991 | 6,940,542 | +7.8% |
2001 | 7,357,558 | +6.0% |
2011 | 8,371,270 | +13.8% |
2021 | 8,484,804 | +1.4% |
2023 | 8,538,376 | +0.6% |
Source: INE |
At the end of the 20th century, Andalusia was in the last phase of demographic transition. The death rate stagnated at around 8–9 per thousand, and the population came to be influenced mainly by birth and migration. In 1950, Andalusia had 20.04 percent of the national population of Spain. By 1981, this had declined to 17.09 percent. Although the Andalusian population was not declining in absolute terms, these relative losses were due to emigration great enough to nearly counterbalance having the highest birth rate in Spain. Since the 1980s, this process has reversed on all counts, and as of 2009, Andalusia has 17.82 percent of the Spanish population. The birth rate is sharply down, as is typical in developed economies, although it has lagged behind much of the rest of the world in this respect. Furthermore, prior emigrants have been returning to Andalusia. Beginning in the 1990s, others have been immigrating in large numbers as well, as Spain has become a country of net immigration.
At the beginning of the 21st century, statistics show a slight increase in the birth rate, due in large part to the higher birth rate among immigrants. The result is that as of 2009, the trend toward rejuvenation of the population is among the strongest of any autonomous community of Spain, or of any comparable region in Europe.
Structure
At the beginning of the 21st century, the population structure of Andalusia shows a clear inversion of the population pyramid, with the largest cohorts falling between ages 25 and 50. Comparison of the population pyramid in 2008 to that in 1986 shows:
- A clear decrease in the population under the age of 25, due to a declining birth rate.
- An increase in the adult population, as the earlier, larger cohort born in the "baby boom" of the 1960s and 1970s reach adulthood. This effect has been exacerbated by immigration: the largest contingent of immigrants are young adults.
- A further increase in the adult population, and especially the older adult population, due to increased life expectancy.
As far as composition by sex, two aspects stand out: the higher percentage of women in the elderly population, owing to women's longer life expectancy, and, on the other hand, the higher percentage of men of working age, due in large part to a predominantly male immigrant population.
Immigration
In 2005, 5.35 percent of the population of Andalusia were born outside of Spain. This is a relatively low number for a Spanish region, the national average being three percentage points higher. The immigrants are not evenly distributed among the Andalusian provinces: Almería, with a 15.20 percent immigrant population, is third among all provinces in Spain, while at the other extreme Jaén is only 2.07 percent immigrants and Córdoba 1.77 percent. The predominant nationalities among the immigrant populations are Moroccan (92,500, constituting 17.79 percent of the foreigners living in Andalusia) and British (15.25 percent across the region). When comparing world regions rather than individual countries, the single largest immigrant block is from the region of Latin America, outnumbering not only all North Africans, but also all non-Spanish Western Europeans. Demographically, this group has provided an important addition to the Andalusian labor force.
Foreign Population by Nationality | Number | % |
2022 | ||
TOTAL FOREIGNERS | 741,378 | |
EUROPE | 342,463 | |
EUROPEAN UNION | 206,934 | |
OTHER EUROPE | 135,529 | |
AFRICA | 211,443 | |
SOUTH AMERICA | 102,938 | |
CENTRAL AMERICA | 30,160 | |
NORTH AMERICA | 11,446 | |
ASIA | 41,811 | |
OCEANIA | 573 | |
Instituto Nacional de Estadística | ||
Economy
Andalusia is traditionally an agricultural area, but the service sector (particularly tourism, retail sales, and transportation) now predominates. The once booming construction sector, hit hard by the 2009 recession, was also important to the region's economy. The industrial sector is less developed than most other regions in Spain.
Between 2000 and 2006 economic growth per annum was 3.72%, one of the highest in the country. Still, according to the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), the GDP per capita of Andalusia (€17,401; 2006) remains the second lowest in Spain, with only Extremadura lagging behind. The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the autonomous community was 160.6 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 13.4% of Spanish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 20,500 euros or 68% of the EU27 average in the same year.
Andalusia | Almería | Cádiz | Córdoba | Granada | Huelva | Jaén | Málaga | Seville | |
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GDP (thousands of €) | 154,011,654 | 14,124,024 | 21,430,772 | 13,000,521 | 16,403,614 | 9,716,037 | 10,036,091 | 31,331,122 | 37,969,433 |
GDP per capita (€) | 18,360 | 20,054 | 17,284 | 16,422 | 17,919 | 18,699 | 15,481 | 19,229 | 19,574 |
Workers | 2,990,143 | 286,714 | 387,174 | 264,072 | 309,309 | 196,527 | 220,877 | 607,255 | 718,215 |
GDP (%) | 100 | 9.17 | 13.92 | 8.44 | 10.65 | 6.31 | 6.52 | 20.34 | 24.65 |
Primary sector
The primary sector, despite adding the least of the three sectors to the regional GDP, remains important, especially when compared to typical developed economies. The primary sector produces 8.26 percent of regional GDP, 6.4 percent of its GVA and employs 8.19 percent of the workforce. In monetary terms it could be considered a rather uncompetitive sector, given its level of productivity compared to other Spanish regions. In addition to its numeric importance relative to other regions, agriculture and other primary sector activities have strong roots in local culture and identity.
The primary sector is divided into a number of subsectors: agriculture, commercial fishing, animal husbandry, hunting, forestry, mining, and energy.
Agriculture, husbandry, hunting, and forestry
For many centuries, agriculture dominated Andalusian society, and, with 44.3 percent of its territory cultivated and 8.4 percent of its workforce in agriculture as of 2016 it remains an integral part of Andalusia's economy. However, its importance is declining, like the primary and secondary sectors generally, as the service sector is increasingly taking over. The primary cultivation is dryland farming of cereals and sunflowers without artificial irrigation, especially in the vast countryside of the Guadalquivir valley and the high plains of Granada and Almería-with a considerably lesser and more geographically focused cultivation of barley and oats. Using irrigation, maize, cotton and rice are also grown on the banks of the Guadalquivir and Genil.
The most important tree crops are olives, especially in the Subbetic regions of the provinces of Córdoba and Jáen, where irrigated olive orchards constitute a large component of agricultural output. There are extensive vineyards in various zones such as Jerez de la Frontera (sherry), Condado de Huelva, Montilla-Moriles and Málaga. Fruits—mainly citrus fruits—are grown near the banks of the Guadalquivir; almonds, which require far less water, are grown on the high plains of Granada and Almería.
In monetary terms, by far the most productive and competitive agriculture in Andalusia is the intensive forced cultivation of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and other fruits grown under hothouse conditions under clear plastic, often in sandy zones, on the coasts, in Almería and Huelva.
Organic farming has recently undergone rapid expansion in Andalusia, mainly for export to European markets but with increasing demand developing in Spain.
Andalusia has a long tradition of animal husbandry and livestock farming, but it is now restricted mainly to mountain meadows, where there is less pressure from other potential uses. Andalusians have a long and colourful history of dog breeding that can be observed throughout the region today. The raising of livestock now plays a semi-marginal role in the Andalusian economy, constituting only 15 percent of the primary sector, half the number for Spain taken as a whole.
"Extensive" raising of livestock grazes the animals on natural or cultivated pastures, whereas "intensive" raising of livestock is based in fodder rather than pasture. Although the productivity is higher than with extensive techniques, the economics are quite different. While intensive techniques now dominate in Europe and even in other regions of Spain, most of Andalusia's cattle, virtually all of its sheep and goats, and a good portion of its pigs are raised by extensive farming in mountain pastures. This includes the Black Iberian pigs that are the source of Jamón ibérico. Andalusia's native sheep and goats present a great economic opportunity in a Europe where animal products are generally in strong supply, but the sheep and goat meat, milk, and leather (and the products derived from these) are relatively scarce. Dogs are bred not just as companion animals, but also as herding animals used by goat and sheep herders.
Hunting remains relatively important in Andalusia, but has largely lost its character as a means of obtaining food. It is now more of a leisure activity linked to the mountain areas and complementary to forestry and the raising of livestock. Dogs are frequently used as hunting companions to retrieve killed game.
The Andalusian forests are important for their extent—50 percent of the territory of Andalusia—and for other less quantifiable environmental reasons, such as their value in preventing erosion, regulating the flow of water necessary for other flora and fauna. For these reasons, there is legislation in place to protect the Andalusian forests. The value of forest products as such constitutes only 2 percent of agricultural production. This comes mostly from cultivated species—eucalyptus in Huelva and poplar in Granada—as well as naturally occurring cork oak in the Sierra Morena.
Fishing
Fishing is a longstanding tradition on the Andalusian coasts. Fish and other seafood have long figured prominently in the local diet and in the local gastronomic culture: fried fish (pescaito frito in local dialect), white prawns, almadraba tuna, among others. The Andalusian fishing fleet is Spain's second largest, after Galicia, and Andalusia's 38 fishing ports are the most of any Spanish autonomous community. Commercial fishing produces only 0.5 percent of the product of the regional primary sector by value, but there are areas where it has far greater importance. In the province of Huelva it constitutes 20 percent of the primary sector, and locally in Punta Umbría 70 percent of the work force is involved in commercial fishing.
Failure to comply with fisheries laws regarding the use of trawling, urban pollution of the seacoast, destruction of habitats by coastal construction (for example, alteration of the mouths of rivers, construction of ports), and diminution of fisheries by overexploitation have created a permanent crisis in the Andalusian fisheries, justifying attempts to convert the fishing fleet. The decrease in fish stocks has led to the rise of aquaculture, including fish farming both on the coasts and in the interior.
Mining
Despite the general poor returns in recent years, mining retains a certain importance in Andalusia. Andalusia produces half of Spain's mining product by value. Of Andalusia's production, roughly half comes from the province of Huelva. Mining for precious metals at Minas de Riotinto in Huelva (see Rio Tinto Group) dates back to pre-Roman times; the mines were abandoned in the Middle Ages and rediscovered in 1556. Other mining activity is coal mining in the Guadiato valley in the province of Córdoba; various metals at Aznalcóllar in the province of Seville, and iron at Alquife in the province of Granada. In addition, limestone, clay, and other materials used in construction are well distributed throughout Andalusia.
Secondary sector: industry
The Andalusian industrial sector has always been relatively small. Nevertheless, in 2007, Andalusian industry earned 11.979 million euros and employed more than 290,000 workers. This represented 9.15 percent of regional GDP, far below the 15.08 the secondary sector represents in the economy of Spain as a whole. By analyzing the different subsectors of the food industry Andalusian industry accounts for more than 16% of total production. In a comparison with the Spanish economy, this subsector is virtually the only food that has some weight in the national economy with 16.16%. Lies far behind the manufacturing sector of shipping materials just over 10% of the Spanish economy. Companies like Cruzcampo (Heineken Group), Puleva, Domecq, Santana Motors or Renault-Andalusia, are exponents of these two subsectors. Of note is the Andalusian aeronautical sector, which is second nationally only behind Madrid and represents approximately 21% of total turnover in terms of employment, highlighting companies like Airbus, Airbus Military, or the newly formed Aerospace Alestis. On the contrary it is symptomatic of how little weight the regional economy in such important sectors such as textiles or electronics at the national level.
Andalusian industry is also characterized by a specialization in industrial activities of transforming raw agricultural and mineral materials. This is largely done by small enterprises without the public or foreign investment more typical of a high level of industrialization.
Tertiary sector: services
In recent decades the Andalusian tertiary (service) sector has grown greatly, and has come to constitute the majority of the regional economy, as is typical of contemporary economies in developed nations. In 1975 the service sector produced 51.1 percent of local GDP and employed 40.8 percent of the work force. In 2007, this had risen to 67.9 percent of GDP and 66.42 percent of jobs. This process of "tertiarization" of the economy has followed a somewhat unusual course in Andalusia. This growth occurred somewhat earlier than in most developed economies and occurred independently of the local industrial sector. There were two principal reasons that "tertiarization" followed a different course in Andalusia than elsewhere:
1. Andalusian capital found it impossible to compete in the industrial sector against more developed regions, and was obligated to invest in sectors that were easier to enter.
2. The absence of an industrial sector that could absorb displaced agricultural workers and artisans led to the proliferation of services with rather low productivity. This unequal development compared to other regions led to a hypertrophied and unproductive service sector, which has tended to reinforce underdevelopment, because it has not led to large accumulations of capital.
Tourism in Andalusia
Due in part to the relatively mild winter and spring climate, the south of Spain is attractive to overseas visitors–especially tourists from Northern Europe. While inland areas such as Jaén, Córdoba and the hill villages and towns remain relatively untouched by tourism, the coastal areas of Andalusia have heavy visitor traffic for much of the year.
Among the autonomous communities, Andalusia is second only to Catalonia in tourism, with nearly 30 million visitors every year. The principal tourist destinations in Andalusia are the Costa del Sol and (secondarily) the Sierra Nevada. As discussed above, Andalusia is one of the sunniest and warmest places in Europe, making it a center of "sun and sand" tourism, but not only it. Around 70 percent of the lodging capacity and 75 percent of the nights booked in Andalusian hotels are in coastal municipalities. The largest number of tourists come in August—13.26 percent of the nights booked throughout the year—and the smallest number in December—5.36 percent.
On the west (Atlantic) coast are the Costa de la Luz (provinces of Huelva and Cádiz), and on the east (Mediterranean) coast, the Costa del Sol (provinces of Cádiz y Málaga), Costa Tropical (Granada and part of Almería) and the Costa de Almería. In 2004, the Blue Flag beach program of the non-profit Foundation for Environmental Education recognized 66 Andalusian beaches and 18 pleasure craft ports as being in a good state of conservation in terms of sustainability, accessibility, and quality. Nonetheless, the level of tourism on the Andalusian coasts has been high enough to have a significant environmental impact, and other organizations—such as the Spanish Ecologists in Action (Ecologistas en Acción) with their description of "Black Flag beaches" or Greenpeace—have expressed the opposite sentiment. Still, Hotel chains such as Fuerte Hotels have ensured that sustainability within the tourism industry is one of their highest priorities.
Together with "sand and sun" tourism, there has also been a strong increase in nature tourism in the interior, as well as cultural tourism, sport tourism, and conventions. One example of sport and nature tourism is the ski resort at Sierra Nevada National Park.
As for cultural tourism, there are hundreds of cultural tourist destinations: cathedrals, castles, forts, monasteries, and historic city centers and a wide variety of museums.
It can be highlighted that Spain has seven of its 42 cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Andalucia:
- Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada (1984,1994)
- Antequera Dolmens Site (2016)
- 10th Century Caliphate City of Medina Azahara (2018)
- Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville (1987)
- Historic centre of Córdoba (1984,1994)
- Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza (2003)
- Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula (1998)
Further, there are the Lugares colombinos, significant places in the life of Christopher Columbus: Palos de la Frontera, La Rábida Monastery, and Moguer) in the province of Huelva. There are also archeological sites of great interest: the Roman city of Italica, birthplace of Emperor Trajan and (most likely) Hadrian or Baelo Claudia near Tarifa.
Andalusia was the birthplace of such great painters as Velázquez and Murillo (Seville) and, more recently, Picasso (Málaga); Picasso is memorialized by his native city at the Museo Picasso Málaga and Natal House Foundation; the Casa de Murillo was a house museum 1982–1998, but is now mostly offices for the Andalusian Council of Culture. The CAC Málaga (Museum of Modern Art) is the most visited museum of Andalusia and has offered exhibitions of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gerhard Richter, Anish Kapoor, Ron Mueck or Rodney Graham. Malaga is also located part of the private Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection at Carmen Thyssen Museum.
There are numerous other significant museums around the region, both of paintings and of archeological artifacts such as gold jewelry, pottery and other ceramics, and other works that demonstrate the region's artisanal traditions.
The Council of Government has designated the following "Municipios Turísticos": in Almería, Roquetas de Mar; in Cádiz, Chiclana de la Frontera, Chipiona, Conil de la Frontera, Grazalema, Rota, and Tarifa; in Granada, Almuñécar; in Huelva, Aracena; in Jaén, Cazorla; in Málaga, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, Nerja, Rincón de la Victoria, Ronda, and Torremolinos; in Seville, Santiponce.
Monuments and features
- Alcazaba, Almería
- Cueva de Menga, Antequera (Málaga)
- El Torcal, Antequera (Málaga)
- Medina Azahara, Córdoba
- Mosque–Cathedral, Córdoba
- Mudejar Quarter, Frigiliana (Málaga)
- Alhambra, Granada
- Palace of Charles V, Granada
- Charterhouse, Granada
- Albayzín, Granada
- La Rabida Monastery, Palos de la Frontera (Huelva)
- Castle of Santa Catalina, Jaén
- Jaén Cathedral, Jaén
- Úbeda and Baeza, Jaén
- Alcazaba, Málaga
- Buenavista Palace, Málaga
- Málaga Cathedral, Málaga
- Puente Nuevo, Ronda (Málaga)
- Caves of Nerja, Nerja (Málaga)
- Ronda Bullring, Ronda (Málaga)
- Giralda, Seville
- Torre del Oro, Seville
- Plaza de España, Seville
- Seville Cathedral, Seville
- Alcázar of Seville, Seville
- Almonaster la Real Mosque, Almonaster la Real (Huelva)
Unemployment
The unemployment rate stood at 25.5% in 2017 and was one of the highest in Spain and Europe.
Year | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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unemployment rate (in %) |
12.6% | 12.8% | 17.7% | 25.2% | 27.8% | 30.1% | 34.4% | 36.2% | 34.8% | 31.5% | 28.9% | 25.5% |
Infrastructure
Transport
As in any modern society, transport systems are an essential structural element of the functioning of Andalusia. The transportation network facilitates territorial coordination, economic development and distribution, and intercity transportation.
In urban transport, underdeveloped public transport systems put pedestrian traffic and other non-motorized traffic are at a disadvantage compared to the use of private vehicles. Several Andalusian capitals—Córdoba, Granada and Seville—have recently been trying to remedy this by strengthening their public transport systems and providing a better infrastructure for the use of bicycles. There are now three rapid transit systems operating in Andalucia – the Seville Metro, Málaga Metro and Granada Metro. Cercanías commuter rail networks operate in Seville, Málaga and Cádiz.
For over a century, the conventional rail network has been centralized on the regional capital, Seville, and the national capital, Madrid; in general, there are no direct connections between provincial capitals. High-speed AVE trains run from Madrid via Córdoba to Seville and Málaga, from which a branch from Antequera to Granada opened in 2019. Further AVE routes are under construction. The Madrid-Córdoba-Seville route was the first high-velocity route in Spain (operating since 1992). Other principal routes are the one from Algeciras to Seville and from Almería via Granada to Madrid.
Most of the principal roads have been converted into limited access highways known as autovías. The Autovía del Este (Autovía A-4) runs from Madrid through the Despeñaperros Natural Park, then via Bailén, Córdoba, and Seville to Cádiz, and is part of European route E05 in the International E-road network. The other main road in the region is the portion of European route E15, which runs as the Autovia del Mediterráneo along the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Parts of this constitute the superhighway Autopista AP-7, while in other areas it is Autovía A-7. Both of these roads run generally east–west, although the Autovía A-4 turns to the south in western Andalusia.
Other first-order roads include the Autovía A-48 roughly along the Atlantic coast from Cádiz to Algeciras, continuing European route E05 to meet up with European route E15; the Autovía del Quinto Centenario (Autovía A-49), which continues west from Seville (where the Autovía A-4 turns toward the south) and goes on to Huelva and into Portugal as European route E01; the Autovía Ruta de la Plata (Autovía A-66), European route E803, which roughly corresponds to the ancient Roman 'Silver Route' from the mines of northern Spain, and runs north from Seville; the Autovía de Málaga (Autovía A-45), which runs south from Córdoba to Málaga; and the Autovía de Sierra Nevada (Autovía A-44), part of European route E902, which runs south from Jaén to the Mediterranean coast at Motril.
As of 2008 Andalusia has six public airports, all of which can legally handle international flights. The Málaga Airport is dominant, handling 60.67 percent of passengers and 85 percent of its international traffic. The Seville Airport handles another 20.12 percent of traffic, and the Jerez Airport 7.17 percent, so that these three airports account for 87.96 percent of traffic.
Málaga Airport is the international airport that offers a wide variety of international destinations. It has a daily link with twenty cities in Spain and over a hundred cities in Europe (mainly in Great Britain, Central Europe and the Nordic countries but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sofia, Riga or Bucharest), North Africa, Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).
The main ports are Algeciras (for freight and container traffic) and Málaga for cruise ships. Algeciras is Spain's leading commercial port, with 60,000,000 tonnes (66,000,000 short tons) of cargo in 2004. Seville has Spain's only commercial river port. Other significant commercial ports in Andalusia are the ports of the Bay of Cádiz, Almería and Huelva.
The Council of Government has approved a Plan of Infrastructures for the Sustainability of Transport in Andalusia (PISTA) 2007–2013, which plans an investment of 30 billion euros during that period.
Energy infrastructure
The lack of high-quality fossil fuels in Andalusia has led to a strong dependency on petroleum imports. Still, Andalusia has a strong potential for the development of renewable energy, above all wind energy. The Andalusian Energy Agency established in 2005 by the autonomous government, is a new governmental organ charged with the development of energy policy and provision of a sufficient supply of energy for the community.
The infrastructure for production of electricity consists of eight large thermal power stations, more than 70 hydroelectric power plants, two wind farms, and 14 major cogeneration facilities. Historically, the largest Andalusian business in this sector was the Compañía Sevillana de Electricidad, founded in 1894, absorbed into Endesa in 1996. The Solar power tower PS10 was built by the Andalusian firm Abengoa in Sanlúcar la Mayor in the province of Seville, and began operating in March 2007. It is the largest existing solar power facility in Europe. Smaller solar power stations, also recent, exist at Cúllar and Galera, Granada, inaugurated by Geosol and Caja Granada. Two more large thermosolar facilities, Andasol I y II, planned at Hoya de Guadix in the province of Granada are expected to supply electricity to half a million households. The Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in the Tabernas Desert is an important center for the exploration of the solar energy.
The largest wind power firm in the region is the Sociedad Eólica de Andalucía, formed by the merger of Planta Eólica del Sur S.A. and Energía Eólica del Estrecho S.A.
The Medgaz gas pipeline directly connects the Algerian town of Béni Saf to Almería.
Education
As throughout Spain, basic education in Andalusia is free and compulsory. Students are required to complete ten years of schooling, and may not leave school before the age of 16, after which students may continue on to a baccalaureate, to intermediate vocational education, to intermediate-level schooling in arts and design, to intermediate sports studies, or to the working world.
Andalusia has a tradition of higher education dating back to the Modern Age and the University of Granada, University of Baeza, and University of Osuna.
As of 2009, there were ten private or public universities in Andalusia. University studies are structured in cycles, awarding degrees based on ECTS credits in accord with the Bologna process, which the Andalusian universities are adopting in accord with the other universities of the European Higher Education Area.
Healthcare
Responsibility for healthcare jurisdictions devolved from the Spanish government to Andalusia with the enactment of the Statute of Autonomy. Thus, the Andalusian Health Service (Servicio Andaluz de Salud) currently manages almost all public health resources of the Community, with such exceptions as health resources for prisoners and members of the military, which remain under central administration.
Science and technology
According to the Outreach Program for Science in Andalusia, Andalusia contributes 14 percent of Spain's scientific production behind only Madrid and Catalonia among the autonomous communities, even though regional investment in research and development (R&D) as a proportion of GDP is below the national average. The lack of research capacity in business and the low participation of the private sector in research has resulted in R&D taking place largely in the public sector.
The Council of Innovation, Science and Business is the organ of the autonomous government responsible for universities, research, technological development, industry, and energy. The council coordinates and initiates scientific and technical innovation through specialized centers an initiatives such as the Andalusian Center for Marine Science and Technology (Centro Andaluz de Ciencia y Tecnología Marina) and Technological Corporation of Andalusia (Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía).
Within the private sphere, although also promoted by public administration, technology parks have been established throughout the Community, such as the Technological Park of Andalucia (Parque Tecnológico de Andalucía) in Campanillas on the outskirts of Málaga, and Cartuja 93 in Seville. Some of these parks specialize in specific sector, such as Aerópolis [es] in aerospace or Geolit [es] in food technology. The Andalusian government deployed 600,000 Ubuntu desktop computers in their schools.
Media
Andalusia has international, national, regional, and local media organizations, which are active gathering and disseminating information (as well as creating and disseminating entertainment).
The most notable is the public Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA), broadcasting on two regional television channels, Canal Sur and Canal Sur 2, four regional radio stations, Canal Sur Radio, Canal Fiesta Radio, Radio Andalucía Información and Canal Flamenco Radio, as well as various digital signals, most notably Canal Sur Andalucía available on cable TV throughout Spain.
Newspapers
Different newspapers are published for each Andalusian provincial capital, comarca, or important city. Often, the same newspaper organization publishes different local editions with much shared content, with different mastheads and different local coverage. There are also popular papers distributed without charge, again typically with local editions that share much of their content.
No single Andalusian newspaper is distributed throughout the region, not even with local editions. In eastern Andalusia the Diario Ideal [es] has editions tailored for the provinces of Almería, Granada, and Jaén. Grupo Joly is based in Andalucia, backed by Andalusian capital, and publishes eight daily newspapers there. Efforts to create a newspaper for the entire autonomous region have not succeeded (the most recent as of 2009 was the Diario de Andalucía). The national press (El País, El Mundo, ABC, etc.) include sections or editions specific to Andalusia.
Public television
Andalusia has two public television stations, both operated by Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA):
- Canal Sur first broadcast on 28 February 1989 (Andalusia Day).
- Canal Sur 2 first broadcast 5 June 1998. Programming focuses on culture, sports, and programs for children and youth.
In addition, RTVA also operates the national and international cable channel Canal Sur Andalucía, which first broadcast in 1996 as Andalucía Televisión.
Radio
There are four public radio stations in the region, all operated by RTVA:
- Canal Sur Radio [es], first broadcast October 1988.
- Radio Andalucía Información [es], first broadcast September 1998.
- Canal Fiesta Radio [es], first broadcast January 2001.
- Canal Flamenco Radio [es], first broadcast 29 September 2008.
Art and culture
The patrimony of Andalusia has been shaped by its particular history and geography, as well as its complex flows of population. Andalusia has been home to a succession of peoples and civilizations, many very different from one another, each impacting the settled inhabitants. The ancient Iberians were followed by Celts, Phoenicians and other Eastern Mediterranean traders, Romans, migrating Germanic tribes, Arabs or Berbers. All have shaped the Spanish patrimony in Andalusia, which was already diffused widely in the literary and pictorial genre of the costumbrismo andaluz.
In the 19th century, Andalusian culture came to be widely viewed as the Spanish culture par excellence, in part thanks to the perceptions of romantic travellers. In the words of Ortega y Gasset:
Andalusia, which has never shown the swagger nor petulancy of particularism; that has never pretended to the status of a State apart, is, of all the Spanish regions, the one that possesses a culture most radically its own. Throughout the 19th century, Spain has submitted itself to the hegemonic influence of Andalusia. That century began with the Cortes of Cádiz; it ended with the assassination of Cánovas del Castillo, malagueño , and the exaltation of Silvela, no less malagueño. The dominant ideas have an Andalusian accent. One paints Andalusia: a roof-terrace, some flowerpots, blue sky. One reads southern authors. One speaks at all times of the "land of the Most Holy Virgin Mary". The thief from the Sierra Morena and the smuggler are national heroes. All Spain feels its existence justified by the honor of having on its flanks the Andalusian piece of the planet. Around 1900, like so many other things, this changes. The North sits up.
— Ortega y Gasset, Teoría de Andalucía, 1927
Arts
Andalusia has been the birthplace of many great artists: the classic painters Velázquez, Murillo, and Juan de Valdés Leal; the sculptors Juan Martínez Montañés, Alonso Cano and Pedro de Mena; and such modern painters as Daniel Vázquez Díaz and Pablo Picasso.
The Spanish composer Manuel de Falla was from Cádiz and incorporated typical Andalusian melodies in his works, as did Joaquín Turina, from Seville. The great singer Camarón de la Isla was born in San Fernando, Cádiz, and Andrés Segovia who helped shape the romantic-modernist approach to classical guitar, was born in Linares, Jaén. The virtuoso Flamenco guitar player Paco de Lucia who helped internationalize Flamenco, was born in Algeciras, Cadiz.
Architecture
Since the Neolithic era, Andalusia has preserved important megaliths, such as the dolmens at the Cueva de Menga and the Dolmen de Viera, both at Antequera. Archeologists have found Bronze Age cities at Los Millares and El Argar. Archeological digs at Doña Blanca in El Puerto de Santa María have revealed the oldest Phoenicians city in the Iberian peninsula; major ruins have also been revealed at Roman Italica near Seville.
Some of the greatest architecture in Andalusia was developed across several centuries and civilizations, and the region is particularly famous for its Islamic and Moorish architecture, which includes the Alhambra complex, Generalife and the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.
The traditional architecture of Andalusia retains its Roman with Arab influences brought by Muslims, with a marked Mediterranean character strongly conditioned by the climate. Traditional urban houses are constructed with shared walls to minimize exposure to high exterior temperatures. Solid exterior walls are painted with lime to minimize the heating effects of the sun. In accord with the climate and tradition of each area, the roofs may be terraces or tiled in the Roman imbrex and tegula style. One of the most characteristic elements (and one of the most obviously influenced by Roman architecture) is the interior patio or courtyard; the patios of Córdoba are particularly famous. Other characteristic elements are decorative (and functional) wrought iron gratings and the tiles known as azulejos. Landscaping—both for common private homes and homes on a more lavish scale—also carries on older traditions, with plants, flowers, and fountains, pools, and streams of water. Beyond these general elements, there are also specific local architectural styles, such as the flat roofs, roofed chimneys, and radically extended balconies of the Alpujarra, the cave dwellings of Guadix and of Granada's Sacromonte, or the traditional architecture of the Marquisate of Zenete.
The monumental architecture of the centuries immediately after the Reconquista often displayed an assertion of Christian hegemony through architecture that referenced non-Arab influences. Some of the greatest Renaissance buildings in Andalusia are from the then-kingdom of Jaén: the Jaén Cathedral, designed in part by Andrés de Vandelvira, served as a model for the Cathedral of Malaga and Guadix; the centers of Úbeda and Baeza, dating largely from this era, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Seville and its kingdom also figured prominently in this era, as is shown by the Casa consistorial de Sevilla, the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas, or the Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera. The Palace of Charles V in Granada is uniquely important for its Italianate purism. Andalusia also has such Baroque-era buildings as the Palace of San Telmo in Seville (seat of the current autonomic presidency), the Church of Our Lady of Reposo in Campillos, and the Granada Charterhouse. Academicism gave the region the Royal Tobacco Factory in Seville and Neoclassicism the nucleus of Cádiz, such as its city hall [es], Royal Prison, and the Oratorio de la Santa Cueva.
Revivalist architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed the buildings of the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in Seville, including the Neo-Mudéjar Plaza de España. Andalusia also preserves an important industrial patrimony related to various economic activities.
Besides the architecture of the cities, there is also much outstanding rural architecture: houses, as well as ranch and farm buildings and dog houses.
Sculpture
The Iberian reliefs of Osuna, Lady of Baza, and León de Bujalance [ca; es], the Phoenician sarcophagi of Cádiz, and the Roman sculptures of the Baetic cities such as Italica give evidence of traditions of sculpture in Andalusia dating back to antiquity. There are few significant surviving sculptures from the time of al-Andalus; two notable exceptions are the lions of the Alhambra and of the Maristán of Granada (the Nasrid hospital in the Albaicín).
The Sevillian school of sculpture dating from the 13th century onward and the Granadan school beginning toward the end of the 16th century both focused primarily on Christian religious subject matter, including many wooden altarpieces. Notable sculptors in these traditions include Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña, Pedro Millán [es], Juan Martínez Montañés, Pedro Roldán, José de Arce [es], Jerónimo Balbás, Alonso Cano, and Pedro de Mena.
Non-religious sculpture has also existed in Andalusia since antiquity. A fine example from the Renaissance era is the decoration of the Casa de Pilatos in Seville. Nonetheless, non-religious sculpture played a relatively minor role until such 19th-century sculptors as Antonio Susillo [es].
Painting
Pablo PicassoLa Fuensanta, considered a quintessential rendition of Andalusian beauty.As in sculpture, there were Sevillian [es] and the Granadan [es] schools of painting. The former has figured prominently in the history of Spanish art since the 15th century and includes such important artists as Zurbarán, Velázquez and Murillo, as well as art theorists such as Francisco Pacheco. The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville and the Prado contain numerous representative works of the Sevillian school of painting.
A specific romantic genre known as costumbrismo andaluz depicts traditional and folkloric Andalusian subjects, such as bullfighting scenes, dogs, and scenes from Andalusia's history. Important artists in this genre include Manuel Barrón, José García Ramos, Gonzalo Bilbao and Julio Romero de Torres. The genre is well represented in the private Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, part of which is on display at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga.
Málaga also has been and is an important artistic center. Its most illustrious representative was Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The city has a Museum and Natal House Foundation, dedicated to the painter.
Literature and philosophy
Andalusia plays a significant role in the history of Spanish-language literature, although not all of the important literature associated with Andalusia was written in Spanish. Before 1492, there was the literature written in Andalusian Arabic. Hispano-Arabic authors native to the region include Ibn Hazm, Ibn Zaydún, Ibn Tufail, Al-Mu'tamid, Ibn al-Khatib, Ibn al-Yayyab, and Ibn Zamrak or Andalusian Hebrew poets as Solomon ibn Gabirol. Ibn Quzman, of the 12th century, crafted poems in the colloquial Andalusian language.
In 1492 Antonio de Nebrija published his celebrated Gramática de la lengua castellana ("Grammar of the Castilian language"), the first such work for a modern European language. In 1528 Francisco Delicado wrote La lozana andaluza, a novel in the orbit of La Celestina, and in 1599 the Sevillian Mateo Alemán wrote the first part of Guzmán de Alfarache, the first picaresque novel with a known author.
The prominent humanist literary school of Seville included such writers as Juan de Mal Lara, Fernando de Herrera, Gutierre de Cetina, Luis Barahona de Soto, Juan de la Cueva, Gonzalo Argote de Molina, and Rodrigo Caro. The Córdoban Luis de Góngora was the greatest exponent of the culteranismo of Baroque poetry in the Siglo de Oro; indeed, the style is often referred to as Góngorismo.
Literary Romanticism in Spain had one of its great centers in Andalusia, with such authors as Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, José Cadalso and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Costumbrismo andaluz existed in literature as much as in visual art, with notable examples being the Escenas andaluzas of Serafín Estébanez Calderón and the works of Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.
Andalusian authors Ángel Ganivet, Manuel Gómez-Moreno, Manuel and Antonio Machado, and Francisco Villaespesa are all generally counted in the Generation of '98. Also of this generation were the Quintero brothers, dramatists who faithfully captured Andalusian dialects and idiosyncrasies. Also of note, 1956 Nobel Prize-winning poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was a native of Moguer, near Huelva.
A large portion of the avant-garde Generation of '27 who gathered at the Ateneo de Sevilla on the 300th anniversary of Góngora's death were Andalusians: Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti, Manuel Altolaguirre, Emilio Prados, and 1977 Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre.
Certain Andalusian fictional characters have become universal archetypes: Prosper Mérimée's gypsy Carmen, P. D. Eastman's Perro, Pierre Beaumarchais's Fígaro, and Tirso de Molina's Don Juan.
As in most regions of Spain, the principal form of popular verse is the romance, although there are also strophes specific to Andalusia, such as the soleá or the soleariya [es; it]. Ballads, lullabies, street vendor's cries, nursery rhymes, and work songs are plentiful.
Among the philosophers native to the region can be counted Seneca, Avicebron, Maimonides, Averroes, Fernán Pérez de Oliva, Sebastián Fox Morcillo, Ángel Ganivet, Francisco Giner de los Ríos and María Zambrano.
Music of Andalusia
Main article: Music of Andalusia See also: Music of SpainThe music of Andalusia includes traditional and contemporary music, folk and composed music, and ranges from flamenco to rock. Conversely, certain metric, melodic and harmonic characteristics are considered Andalusian even when written or performed by musicians from elsewhere.
Flamenco, perhaps the most characteristically Andalusian genre of music and dance, originated in the 18th century, but is based in earlier forms from the region. The influence of the traditional music and dance of the Romani people or Gypsies is particularly clear. The genre embraces distinct vocal (cante flamenco), guitar (toque flamenco), and dance (baile flamenco) styles.
The Andalusian Statute of Autonomy reflects the cultural importance of flamenco in its Articles 37.1.18 and 68:
Guiding principles of public policy: 18th The preservation and enhancement of the cultural, historic and artistic heritage of Andalusia, especially flamenco.
Andrés Segovia (left), the musician who introduced the modern classical guitar to large audiences; Andalusian José María Ventura Casas (right) is regarded as the father of the modern Catalan sardana.Also within the Autonomous Community (of Andalucia) is the exclusive competence in knowledge, conservation, research, training, promotion and dissemination of flamenco as a unique element of the Andalusian cultural heritage.
Fundamental in the history of Andalusian music are the composers Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Manuel García, Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Turina, and Manuel Castillo [da; es], as well as one of the fathers of modern classical guitar, the guitarist Andrés Segovia. Mention should also be made of the great folk artists of the copla (music) and the cante hondo, such as Rocío Jurado, Lola Flores (La Faraona, "the pharaoh"), Juanito Valderrama and the revolutionary Camarón de la Isla.
Prominent Andalusian rock groups include Triana and Medina Azahara. The duo Los del Río from Dos Hermanas had international success with their "Macarena", including playing at a Super Bowl half-time show in the United States, where their song has also been used as campaign music by the Democratic Party. Other notables include the singer, songwriter, and poet Joaquín Sabina, Isabel Pantoja, Rosa López, who represented Spain at Eurovision in 2002, and David Bisbal.
On 16 November 2023, Seville will host the 24th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at the FIBES Conference and Exhibition Centre, making Seville the first city outside of the United States to host the Latin Grammy Awards.
Film
The portrayal of Andalusia in film is often reduced to archetypes: flamenco, bullfighting, Catholic pageantry, brigands, the property-rich and cash-poor señorito andaluz and emigrants. These images particularly predominated from the 1920s through the 1960s, and helped to consolidate a clichéd image of the region. In a very different vein, the province of Almería was the filming location for many Westerns, especially (but by no means exclusively) the Italian-directed Spaghetti Westerns. During the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, this was the extent of the film industry in Andalusia.
Nonetheless, Andalusian film has roots as far back as José Val del Omar in the pre-Franco years, and since the Spanish transition to democracy has brought forth numerous nationally and internationally respected directors: Antonio Cuadri [ca; es; ru] (Heart of the Earth), Chus Gutiérrez (Poniente), Chiqui Carabante [ca; es] (Carlos Against the World), Alberto Rodríguez (7 Virgins), Benito Zambrano (Solas), and Antonio Banderas (Summer Rain).
Counting together feature films, documentaries, television programs, music videos etc., Andalusia has boomed from 37 projects shooting in 1999 to 1,054 in 2007, with the figure for 2007 including 19 feature films. Although feature films are the most prestigious, commercials and television are currently more economically important to the region.
The Filmoteca de Andalucía [es; fr], headquartered in Córdoba, is a government-run entity in charge of the investigation, collection and diffusion of Andalusian cinematic heritage. Other important contributors to this last activity are such annual film festivals as the Málaga Spanish Film Festival, the most important festival dedicated exclusively to cinema made in Spain, the Seville European Film Festival (SEFF), the International Festival of Short Films—Almería in Short, the Huelva Festival of Latin American Film, the Atlantic Film Show in Cádiz, the Islantilla Festival of Film and Television and the African Film Festival of Tarifa.
Culture
Customs and society
Each sub-region in Andalusia has its own unique customs that represent a fusion of Catholicism and local folklore. Cities like Almería have been influenced historically by both Granada and Murcia in the use of traditional head coverings. The sombrero de Labrador, a worker's hat made of black velvet, is a signature style of the region.
In Cádiz, traditional costumes with rural origins are worn at bullfights and at parties on the large estates. The tablao flamenco dance and the accompanying cante jondo vocal style originated in Andalusia and traditionally most often performed by the gypsy (Gitanos). One of the most distinctive cultural events in Andalusia is the Romería de El Rocío in May. It consists of a pilgrimage to the Hermitage of El Rocío in the countryside near Almonte, in honor of the Virgin of El Rocío, an image of the Virgin and Child. In recent times the Romería has attracted roughly a million pilgrims each year.
In Jaén, the saeta is a revered form of Spanish religious song, whose form and style has evolved over many centuries. Saetas evoke strong emotion and are sung most often during public processions. Verdiales, based upon the fandango, are a flamenco music style and song form originating in Almogia, near Málaga. For this reason, the Verdiales are sometimes known as Fandangos de Málaga. The region also has a rich musical tradition of flamenco songs, or palos called cartageneras. Seville celebrates Semana Santa, one of the better known religious events within Spain. During the festival, religious fraternities dress as penitents and carry large floats of lifelike wooden sculptures representing scenes of the Passion, and images of the Virgin Mary. Sevillanas, a type of old folk music sung and written in Seville and still very popular, are performed in fairs and festivals, along with an associated dance for the music, the Baile por sevillanas. All the different regions of Andalusia have developed their own distinctive customs, but all share a connectedness to Catholicism as developed during baroque Spain society.
Andalusian Spanish
Main article: Andalusian SpanishAndalusian Spanish is one of the most widely spoken forms of Spanish in Spain, and because of emigration patterns was very influential on American Spanish. Rather than a single dialect, it is really a range of dialects sharing some common features; among these is the retention of more Arabic words than elsewhere in Spain, as well as some phonological differences compared with Standard Spanish. The isoglosses that mark the borders of Andalusian Spanish overlap to form a network of divergent boundaries, so there is no clear border for the linguistic region. A fringe movement promoting an Andalusian language independent from Spanish exists.
Religion
The territory now known as Andalusia fell within the sphere of influence of ancient Mediterranean mythological beliefs. Phoenician colonization brought the cults of Baal and Melqart; the latter lasted into Roman times as Hercules, mythical founder of both Cádiz and Seville. The Islote de Sancti Petri held the supposed tomb of Hercules, with representations of his Twelve labors; the region was the traditional site of the tenth labor, obtaining the cattle of the monster Geryon. Traditionally, the Pillars of Hercules flank the Strait of Gibraltar. Clearly, the European pillar is the Rock of Gibraltar; the African pillar was presumably either Monte Hacho in Ceuta or Jebel Musa in Morocco. The Roman road that led from Cádiz to Rome was known by several names, one of them being Via Herculea [fr; it; sv], Hercules route returning from his tenth labor. The present coat of arms of Andalusia shows Hercules between two lions, with two pillars behind these figures.
Roman Catholicism is, by far, the largest religion in Andalusia. In 2012, the proportion of Andalusians that identify themselves as Roman Catholic was 78.8%. Spanish Catholic religion constitute a traditional vehicle of Andalusian cultural cohesion, and the principal characteristic of the local popular form of Catholicism is devotion to the Virgin Mary; Andalusia is sometimes known as la tierra de María Santísima ("the land of Most Holy Mary"). Also characteristic are the processions during Holy Week, in which thousands of penitents (known as nazarenos) sing saetas. Andalusia is the site of such pilgrim destinations as the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza [ca; de; es; it] in Andújar and the Hermitage of El Rocío in Almonte.
Bullfighting
While some trace the lineage of the Spanish Fighting Bull back to Roman times, today's fighting bulls in the Iberian peninsula and in the former Spanish Empire trace back to Andalusia in the 15th and 16th centuries. Andalusia remains a center of bull-rearing and bullfighting: its 227 fincas de ganado where fighting bulls are raised cover 146,917 hectares (363,040 acres). In the year 2000, Andalusia's roughly 100 bullrings hosted 1,139 corridas.
The oldest bullring still in use in Spain is the neoclassical Plaza de toros in Ronda, built in 1784. The Andalusian Autonomous Government sponsors the Rutas de Andalucía taurina, a touristic route through the region centered on bullfighting.
Festivals
The Andalusian festivals provide a showcase for popular arts and traditional costume. Among the most famous of these are the Seville Fair or Feria de Abril in Seville, now echoed by smaller fairs in Madrid and Barcelona, both of which have many Andalusian immigrants; the Feria de Agosto in Málaga; the Feria de Jerez or Feria del Caballo in Jerez; the Feast of Corpus Christi [es] in Granada; the Feria de Nuestra Señora de la Salud [es] in Córdoba; the Columbian Festivals (Fiestas Colombinas) in Huelva; the Feria de la Virgen del Mar in Almería; and the Feria de San Lucas [es] in Jaén, among many others.
Festivals of a religious nature are a deep Andalusian tradition and are met with great popular fervor. There are numerous major festivals during Holy Week. An annual pilgrimage brings a million visitors to the Hermitage of El Rocío in Almonte (population 16,914 in 2008); similarly large crowds visit the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza in Andújar every April.
Other important festivals are the Carnival of Cádiz and the Fiesta de las Cruces or Cruz de mayo in Granada and Córdoba; in Córdoba this is combined with a competition for among the patios (courtyards) of the city.
Andalusia hosts an annual festival for the dance of flamenco in the summer-time.
Cuisine
Main articles: Andalusian cuisine and List of Andalusian food and drink products with protected statusThe Andalusian diet varies, especially between the coast and the interior, but in general is a Mediterranean diet based on olive oil, cereals, legumes, vegetables, fish, dried fruits and nuts, and meat; there is also a great tradition of drinking wine.
Fried fish—pescaíto frito—and seafood are common on the coast and also eaten well into the interior under coastal influence. Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) from the Almadraba areas of the Gulf of Cádiz, prawns from Sanlúcar de Barrameda (known as langostino de Sanlúcar), and deepwater rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris [es]) from Huelva are all highly prized. Fishing for the transparent goby or chanquete (Aphia minuta), a once-popular small fish from Málaga, is now banned because the techniques used to catch them trap too many immature fish of other species.
The mountainous regions of the Sierra Morena and Sierra Nevada produce cured hams, notably including jamón serrano and jamón ibérico. These come from two different types of pig, (jamón serrano from white pigs, the more expensive jamón ibérico from the Black Iberian pig). There are several denominaciones de origen, each with its own specifications including in just which microclimate region ham of a particular denomination must be cured. Plato alpujarreño is another mountain specialty, a dish combining ham, sausage, sometimes other pork, egg, potatoes, and olive oil.
Confectionery is popular in Andalusia. Almonds and honey are common ingredients. Many enclosed convents of nuns make and sell pastries, especially Christmas pastries: mantecados, polvorones, pestiños, alfajores, yemas de San Leandro [es; ru], as well as churros or tejeringos, meringue cookies (merengadas), and amarguillos [es].
Cereal-based dishes include migas de harina in eastern Andalusia (a similar dish to couscous rather than the fried breadcrumb based migas elsewhere in Spain) and a sweeter, more aromatic porridge called poleá in western Andalusia. Vegetables form the basis of such dishes as alboronía (similar to ratatouille) and the chopped salad known as pipirrana or piriñaca. Hot and cold soups based in olive oil, garlic, bread, tomato and peppers include gazpacho, salmorejo, porra antequerana, ajo caliente, sopa campera, or—using almonds instead of tomato—ajoblanco.
Wine has a privileged place at the Andalusian table. Andalusian wines are known worldwide, especially fortified wines such as sherry (jerez), aged in soleras. These are enormously varied; for example, dry sherry may be the very distinct fino, manzanilla, amontillado, oloroso, or Palo Cortado and each of these varieties can each be sweetened with Pedro Ximénez or Moscatel to produce a different variety of sweet sherry. Besides sherry, Andalucía has five other denominaciones de origen for wine: D.O. Condado de Huelva, D.O. Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda, D.O. Málaga, D.O. Montilla-Moriles, and D.O. Sierras de Málaga. Most Andalusian wine comes from one of these regions, but there are other historic wines without a Protected Geographical Status, for example Tintilla de Rota, Pajarete, Moscatel de Chipiona and Mosto de Umbrete.
Andalusia also produces D.O. vinegar and brandy: D.O. Vinagre de Jerez and D.O. Brandy de Jerez.
Other traditions
The traditional dress of 18th-century Andalusia was strongly influenced by majismo within the context of casticismo (purism, traditionalism, authenticity). The archetype of the majo and maja was that of a bold, pure Spaniard from a lower-class background, somewhat flamboyant in his or her style of dress. This emulation of lower-class dress also extended to imitating the clothes of brigands and Romani ("Gypsy") women.
The Museum of Arts and Traditions of Sevilla has collected representative samples of a great deal of the history of Andalusian dress, including examples of such notable types of hat as the sombrero cordobés, sombrero calañés, sombrero de catite and the pavero [es], as well as the traje corto and traje de flamenca.
Andalusia has a great artisan tradition in tile, leather (see Shell cordovan), weaving (especially of the heavy jarapa cloth), marquetry, and ceramics (especially in Jaén, Granada, and Almería), lace (especially Granada and Huelva), embroidery (in Andévalo), ironwork, woodworking, and basketry in wicker, many of these traditions a heritage of the long period of Muslim rule.
Andalusia is also known for its dogs, particularly the Andalusian Hound, which was originally bred in the region. Dogs, not just andalusian hounds, are very popular in the region.
Andalusian equestrianism, institutionalized in the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art is known well beyond the borders of Spain. The Andalusian horse is strongly built, compact yet elegant, distinguished in the area of dressage and show jumping, and is also an excellent horse for driving. They are known for their elegant "dancing" gait.
Sports
Team sports
In Andalusia, as throughout Spain, football is the predominant sport. Introduced to Spain by British men who worked in mining for Rio Tinto in the province of Huelva, the sport soon became popular with the local population. As Spain's oldest existing football club, Recreativo de Huelva, founded 1889, is known as El Decano ("the Dean").
For the 2024–2025 season, two Andalusian clubs compete in Spain's First Division La Liga: Real Betis and Sevilla FC. Betis won La Liga in 1934–35 and Sevilla in the 1945–46 season. There are five Andalusian clubs playing in the second division: Málaga CF, Cádiz CF, Cordoba CF, UD Almeria, and Granada CF.
The Andalusia autonomous football team is not in any league, and plays only friendly matches. In recent years, they have played mostly during the Christmas break of the football leagues. They play mostly against national teams from other countries, but would not be eligible for international league play, where Spain is represented by a single national team.
In recent decades, basketball has become increasingly popular, with CB Málaga, also known as Unicaja Málaga who have won the Liga ACB in 2007 and the Korać Cup in 2001 and usually play the Euroleague, CB Sevilla (Banca Cívica) and CB Granada competing at the top level in the Liga ACB.
Unlike basketball, handball has never really taken off in Andalusia. There is one Andalusian team in the Liga Asobal, Spain's premier handball league: BM Puente Genil, playing in the province of Córdoba.
Andalusia's strongest showing in sports has been in table tennis. There are two professional teams: Cajasur Priego TM and Caja Granada TM, the latter being Spain's leading table tennis team, with more than 20 league championships in nearly consecutive years and 14 consecutive Copas del Rey, dominating the Liga ENEBÉ. Cajasur is also one of the league's leading teams.
Olympics
220 Andalusian athletes have competed in a total of 16 summer or winter Olympic Games. The first was Leopoldo Sainz de la Maza, part of the silver medal-winning polo team at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
In all, Andalusians have won six gold medals, 11 silver, and two bronze. Winners of multiple medals include the Córdoban boxer Rafael Lozano (bronze in the 1996 Summer Olympics at Atlanta, Georgia, US, and silver in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia); sailor Theresa Zabell, Malagueña by adoption (gold medals at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta in 1996). Other notable winners have been Granadan tennis player Manuel Orantes (silver in the men's singles of the demonstration tournament in Mexico City in 1968), Jerezano riders Ignacio Rambla and Rafael Soto (silver in dressage in Athens in 2004) and the racewalker Paquillo Fernández from Guadix (silver in Athens in 2004).
The largest number of Olympic appearances were by the Malagueña swimmer María Peláez (five appearances), the Granadan skier María José Rienda (four), the Sevillian rider Luis Astolfi (four), and the Sevillian rower Fernando Climent (four, including a silver at Los Angeles, California, US, in 1984.
Seville has been a pre-candidate to host the Summer Olympics in two occasions, 2004 and 2008, and Granada has been a pre-candidate to host the winter Olympics; neither has ever succeeded in its candidature. The ski resort of Sierra Nevada, near Granada, has however hosted the 1996 Alpine World Ski Championships, and Granada hosted the 2015 Winter Universiade.
Other sports
Other sporting events in Andalusia include surfing, kitesurfing and windsurfing competitions at Tarifa, various golf tournaments at courses along the coast, and horse racing and polo at several locations in the interior. Andalusia hosted the 1999 World Championships in Athletics (Seville), the 2005 Mediterranean Games (Almería) and the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996 (Granada), among other major events. There is also the annual Vuelta a Andalucía bicycle road race and the Linares chess tournament. The Circuito de Jerez, located near Jerez de la Frontera, hosts the Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix.
Twinning and covenants
Andalusia has had a sister region relationship with Buenos Aires (Argentina), since 2001; and with Córdoba (Argentina). Also Andalusia has a collaboration agreement with Guerrero (Mexico).
See also
- Andalusian people
- Andalusian nationalism
- Azulejo
- List of Andalusians
- List of the oldest mosques
- Roman Bética Route
- San Juan De Los Terreros
- White Towns of Andalusia
- Yeseria
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External links
- Geographic data related to Andalusia at OpenStreetMap
- "Andalusia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. II (9th ed.). 1878. pp. 10–11.
- Official site – Junta de Andalucia
- Andalucia Tourism Site
- Andalucia page at the guardian
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