Andalusia

Comunidad Autónoma de
Andalucía

Motto: Andalucía por sí, para España y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity)
Capital	Seville
Area  - total  - % of Spain	Ranked 2nd 87 268 km² 17,2%
Population  - Total (2003)  - % of Spain  - Density	Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70/km²
Demonym  - English  - Spanish	Andalusian andaluz, andaluza
Statute of Autonomy	January 11, 1982
ISO 3166-2	AN
Parliamentary representation  Congress seats  Senate seats	62 8
President	Manuel Chaves González (PSOE)
Junta de Andalucía

Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain.

Located in the south of the country, Andalusia it is bounded on the north by Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha, on the east by Murcia, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea and Gibraltar, and on the west by Portugal.

Its capital is Sevilla.

The Spanish spoken in the Americas is largely descended from the Andalusian dialect of Castilian Spanish due to the role played by Sevilla as the gateway to Spain's American colonies in the 16th and 17th centuries.

A lot of Moorish architecture is found in Andalusia, because it was the last stronghold of the Moors before they were expelled from Europe in 1492. The most famous are The Alhambra in Granada, the Mosque in Córdoba and the Torre del Oro and Giralda towers in Sevilla. Archaeological remains include Medina Azahara, also near Sevilla.

Andalusia is divided in 8 provinces:

• Sevilla
• Granada
• Córdoba
• Cádiz
• Málaga
• Huelva
• Jaén
• Almería

Major cities in Andalusia are:

• Sevilla
• Granada
• Córdoba
• Cádiz
• Málaga
• Huelva
• Jaén
• Almería
• Jerez

Andalusia is the home of flamenco music.

see also Macarena

External links

• Statute of Autonomy (in Spanish)
• Government of Andalusia (in Spanish)
• Parliament of Andalusia (in Spanish)
• Basic statistical data for Andalusia (in Spanish, .pdf format)

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