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Garrucha
Sign in to saveGarrucha is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Garrucha is a seaport of south-eastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea and the right bank of the river Antas. In 1998 the town had a population of 5000. The harbor of Garrucha, which is defended by an eighteenth-century castle, affords shelter to large ships, and is the natural outlet for the commerce of a once thriving agricultural and mining district. Garrucha had, at the beginning of the twentieth century a considerable trade in lead, silver, copper, iron, esparto grass and fruit, but now the onl
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Garrucha, Spain
- Settlement.settlement_type
- municipality
- Settlement.motto
- Ex Mari Orta (Born of The sea)
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera de Garrucha (Almería).svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Garrucha (Almería) 2.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Andalusia
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Almería
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- [María Antonia López Cervantes] (PSOE)
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 8
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Part of
- Levante Almeriense
- Official name
- Garrucha
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Almería Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 10845
- Area
- 8
- Elevation
- 24
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shares border with
- Vera
- Official website
- www.garrucha.es
- Image
- Garrucha (Almería).jpg
- Licence plate code
- AL
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- postal code
- 04630
- Commons category
- Garrucha
- female population
- 4449
- male population
- 4763
- P8168
- Strip
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- Climate
- Sport
- Tourism
- See also
- References
- External links
Garrucha is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Garrucha is a seaport of south-eastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea and the right bank of the river Antas. In 1998 the town had a population of 5000. The harbor of Garrucha, which is defended by an eighteenth-century castle, affords shelter to large ships, and is the natural outlet for the commerce of a once thriving agricultural and mining district. Garrucha had, at the beginning of the twentieth century a considerable trade in lead, silver, copper, iron, esparto grass and fruit, but now the only export from its harbour is gypsum mined in Sorbas, with a million metric tonnes being exported annually. Besides cargo ships, the port is home to a small fishing fleet and has approximately 300 moorings for leisure boats.
== Demographics ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garrucha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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