Granada (province)
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| Image:Localización provincia de Granada.png | |||||
| Capital | Granada | ||||
| Official language(s) | Spanish | ||||
| Area – Total – % of Spain | Ranked 15 12,531 km² | ||||
| Population – Total (2006) – % of Spain – Density | Ranked 17 876,184 69.3/km² | ||||
| Demonym – English – Spanish | Granadin Granadino | ||||
| Autonomous Community | Andalusia | ||||
| Government | Diputation of Granada | ||||
| President | Antonio Martínez Caler (PSOE) | ||||
| http://www.dipgra.es/ | |||||
Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Granada.
Its area is 12,635 km². Its population is 876,184 (2006), of whom about 30% live in the capital, and its population density is 64.82/km² It contains 168 municipalities.
There are Roman Catholic cathedrals at Granada and Guadix.
The tallest mountain in Iberian Peninsula, Mulhacén, is located in Granada. It measures 3,481 m.
Granada shares the Sierra Nevada National Park (in the Sierra Nevada mountain range) with Almería province.
Although slightly too far east to catch the floods of British tourists coming to the Costa del Sol via Málaga, Granada brings in a number of tourists with its Moorish architecture and famous Alhambra. In the winter the mountains of the Sierra Nevada play host to a small but thriving ski industry; these are Europe's most southerly ski resorts.
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- (Spanish) Diputación Provincial de Granada (Provincial government)
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