Andalusia is the independent community with greater number of inhabitants and second of Spain in surface. The variety of their landscapes, the benignancy of their climate and the hospitable character of their people have turned it one of the most attractive regions for the visitor. Denominated by many like "bridge between continents", "door of Europe", "crucible of cultures" or "point of contact between seas", one adjusts perfectly to anyone of these definitions. Vertex between Europe and Africa and point of contact of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, have been coveted throughout the centuries by numerous cultures since history is history and still long before, enjoying the preferences of our ancestors of prehistory like establishment place. Their 3000 hours of sun to the year, their smooth Mediterranean climate and its extensive beach coasts golden with gorgeous natural harbors, serve as refuge for all those tourists who go to this magnificent zone of the south of Spain. Andalusia counts on two types of beaches, those that corresponds to the Atlantic Ocean in the coast of Huelva and Cadiz, which they are ample, of fine sand and strong surge; and those of the Mediterranean that goes from the Straits of Gibraltar to Almeria, safe from winds and with warmer waters.
Their earth are crossed by the Guadalquivir river, called by the Arabs "Great River", conforms a fertile valley to which it gives name him and that constitutes the fundamental axis that it physically forms to Andalusia along with his Genil affluent. From its birth in the East Andalusian, in the Mountain ranges of Cazorla, Safe and the Villas, to its opening in the west, next to the salt marshes of the National Park of Doñana, the Guadalquivir river is source of life in its cross-sectional crossing of the territory Andalusian. Additionally its mountains of Brown Mountain range and Béticos Systems, where are the highest summits of the peninsula; Mulhacén and Veleta, offer landscapes of incredible beauty.
The tourist supply very is varied, between beaches, discharge mountain with wild, colorful white towns, rich fauna folclore. Andalusia is in addition myth mother country, where the ritual can be known in all its authenticity: The rite of the bullfight and the magical world of the bulls; the rite of the wine and the fresh world of the warehouse; the rite of the horse and the amazing world of its taming. In the Earth where the flamenco one was born, from where one was divided for the new world, or where Literature or operates it created myths like Carmen, Don Juan Tenorio, the barber of Seville....y so many others, we found a unique amalgam between tradition and progress. Climate Andalusia is fitted within the Mediterranean climatic dominion, although all Andalusia does not have the same climate. The precipitations diminish of the west to this, locating in Andalusia the rainiest point of the south of the Iberian Peninsula (Mountain range of Grazalema, 2,138 liters annual) and less rainy of Europe (Cabo de Gata, 117 liters annual). Humid Andalusia agrees with the highest points of the Community (the three Mountain ranges), specially excelling the area of the Mountainous area of Round and the Mountain range of Grazalema. Semi-arid Andalusia is represented by great part of the province of Almeria and the Hole of Guadix-Baza. The valley of Guadalquivir presents/displays average pluviometría. The days of rain to the year are around 75, descending up to 50 in the most barren zones. However, in great parts of Andalusia the 300 days of sun to the year are surpassed. The annual average temperature of Andalusia is superior to 16 ºC, although also with geographic variations, oscillating from the 18.5 ºC of Malaga to the 15.1 ºC in Baeza. The coldest month is January (6.4 ºC in Granada) and the warmest August (28.5 ºC in Écija). The province of Granada is the one that registers the lowest temperatures of all south of Spain. In January of the 2005 it was gotten to reach -18ºC in Level Prado.
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