Cartaya
Sign in to saveCartaya is a Spanish locality and municipality in the Province of Huelva, (autonomous community of Andalusia). In 2010 it had 18,415 inhabitants. Its surface area is 226.4 km2 and has a density of 81.34 people per km2.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Cartaya
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality & Town
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera de Cartaya.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 125px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Cartaya.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Plaza de Cartaya 01.JPG
- Settlement.shield_size
- 85px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Spain
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Settlement.mapframe marker
- town
- Settlement.motto
- Cartaya: pines and sea & Cartaya ahead Cartaya: pinos y mar & Cartaya por delante
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous Community
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 25px Andalusia
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 20px Huelva
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- Etymology
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- Geography
- Situation
- Orography
- Climate
- Hydrology
- Ecology
- History
- Prehistory
- Romanization
- Middle Ages
- Founding of Cartaya
- Modern era
- Population and urban arrangement
- Centres of population
- Demography
- Politics and government
- Local administration
- Economy
- See also
- References
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Cartaya is a Spanish locality and municipality in the Province of Huelva, (autonomous community of Andalusia). In 2010 it had 18,415 inhabitants. Its surface area is 226.4 km2 and has a density of 81.34 people per km2.
The present town of Cartaya was founded in the 15th century by the Marquis of Gibraleón, Don Pedro de Zúñiga. Its name comes from the Phoenician word "Carteia", meaning city, which implies that the site had been settled much earlier. Traces have been found dating from the late Roman Empire and there is evidence of farmsteads from the early medieval period.