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Huelva Travel Guide
Huelva is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by Portugal, the provinces of Bajadoz, Sevilla, and Cádiz, and the Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is Huelva. The area of Huelva province is 10,148 km² and its population is 483,792 (2005), of whom about 30% live in the capital, and its population density is 47.67/km². It contains 79 municipalities.
The city of Huelva is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel and Rio Tinto river. Of great importance as a fishing port as well as for its industry, Huelva is mainly an industrial city. Also it's the center of one of the largest concentrations of beaches in Spain.
The province contains Palos de la Frontera, and Moguer, where Christopher Columbus sailed out of on his first voyage in 1492, and shares the Parque Nacional de Doñana with Sevilla province. In fact, Christopher Columbus started his travel to America from the nearby Palos de la Frontera. There you may still visit the monastery where he prepared his travel, alongside with a reconstruction of the port and the three famous ships.
The commercial harbor of Huelva is one of the leading ports in Spain in terms of traffic handled, mainly due to the shipment of ore from the Río Tinto and Tharsis. The tunny and sardine fisheries and the associated fish canning industry also make important contributions to the town's economy. Unfortunately, the establishment of oil refineries and other petro-chemical industries, with a consequent uncontrolled building boom, has led to a dramatic deterioration in the local environment. Huelva is, these days, a busy port with copper, sulfur, and cork exports. It also has fishing, shipbuilding, oil refining, and summer resort industries.
Huelva
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