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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Andalusia
- Total
- 24 km (9.3 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 257 m (843 ft)
- Density
- 40/km (100/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- www.elborge.es
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
El Borge is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is located in the comarca of Axarquía. The municipality is situated approximately 24 kilometers from Vélez-Málaga, 28 from the provincial capital of Málaga and 567 km from Madrid. It has a population of approximately 1,000 residents. The natives are called Borgeños.
The town of El Borge is situated at the foot of the Cerro de Cútar mountain, on the border of the Axarquia and Montes de Malaga comarcas, and is known as the "raisin capital" for its large production of Muscatel raisins, which have DO (denominacion de origin) status.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Borge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.