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Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia
Flag of Región de Murcia Coat-of-arms of Región de Murcia
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Map of Región de Murcia
Capital Murcia
Official languages Spanish;
Area
 – Total
 – % of Spain		 Ranked 9th
 11,313 km²
 2. Murcia ( is the capital city of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, located at the river Segura in south-eastern Spain. An official language is a Language that is given a special legal status in a particular Country, State, or other territory Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. Here is a list of the autonomous communities of Spain in order of Area. To help compare Orders of magnitude of different geographical regions  Areas between 10000 km² and 100000 km² are listed here Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 2%
Population
 – Total (2005)
 – % of Spain
 – Density		 Ranked 10th
 1,335,792
 3. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different Here is a list of the autonomous communities and autonomous cities of Spain in order of Population ( 2005) 0%
 118. 08/km²
Demonym
 – English
 – Spanish
 Murcian
 murciano/a
Statute of Autonomy
 June 9, 1982
 – Congress seats
 – Senate seats


 9
 2
President Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso (PP)
ISO 3166-2 MU
Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia

The Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia (Spanish: Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia) is one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, located in the southeast of the country, between Andalucía and Valencian Community, on the Mediterranean coast. A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Events 53 - Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia 62 - Claudia Octavia commits Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) The Cortes Generales ( Spanish for General Courts or Cortes Españolas, Spanish Courts) is the Legislature of Spain. The Spanish Congress of Deputies (Spanish Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain 's Legislative branch. The Spanish Senate ( Senado de España in Spanish) is the upper house of Spain 's Parliament, the Cortes Generales. The People's Party ( Spanish: Partido Popular, PP) is the main right Political party in Spain. ISO 3166-2 is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes The section that applies to Spain codes the Provinces of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. An autonomous community is a first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution. Andalusia (Andalucía is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in terms of land area The Valencian Community ( Valencian and official Comunitat Valenciana; Comunidad Valenciana is an Autonomous community located in central to

The autonomous community consists of a single province (region), unlike most autonomous communities, which have several provinces within the same region. In addition to its autonomous communities, Spain is divided into fifty Provinces. Because of this, the autonomous community and the province are operated as one unit of government. The city of Murcia is the capital of the Region, and seat of government organs, except for the parliament (Regional Assembly), which is in Cartagena

See also List of municipalities in Murcia. Murcia ( is the capital city of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, located at the river Segura in south-eastern Spain. This is a list of the municipalities in the province and Autonomous community of Murcia, Spain.

The Region of Murcia is bordered by Andalucía (the provinces of Almería and Granada); Castilla-La Mancha (the province of Albacete), which was historically connected to Murcia until 1833; the Valencian Community (province of Alicante); and the Mediterranean Sea. Andalusia (Andalucía is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in terms of land area Almería is a province of southern Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Granada, Murcia, and the Mediterranean Sea. Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. Castile-La Mancha ( Spanish "Castilla-La Mancha" is an autonomous community of Spain. Albacete is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Year 1833 ( MDCCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Valencian Community ( Valencian and official Comunitat Valenciana; Comunidad Valenciana is an Autonomous community located in central to Alicante in Spanish or Alacant (in Valencian) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian The highest mountain is Revolcadores (2015 m).

The community measures 11,313 km² and has a population of 1. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 2 million, of whom one-third live in the capital.

The region is a major producer of fruits, vegetables, and flowers for Spain and the rest of Europe. The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context and the term is not synonymous in Food preparation and Biology. The term " vegetable " generally means the edible parts of Plants The definition of the word is traditional rather than Scientific, however A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also Excellent wineries have developed near the towns of Bullas, Yecla, and Jumilla, as well as olive oil near Moratalla. Bullas is a Municipality and town in the autonomous community of Murcia, southeast Spain. Yecla is a town and Municipality in eastern Spain, in the extreme north of the autonomous community of Murcia. Jumilla is a Municipality and also a Wine -producing region in southern Spain. Olive oil is a fruit oil obtained from the olive ( Olea europaea; family Oleaceae along with Lilacs Jasmine and ash trees Moratalla ( is a small beautiful town center of a large Municipality (961 km² of the same name in southeastern Spain, belonging to the Autonomous Community Murcia is mainly a warm region which has made it very suitable for agriculture. However the precipitacion level is low and water supply is a hot subject today since, in addition to the traditional water demand for crops, there is now also a demand of water for the booming tourist developments which take advantage of the mild weather and beaches. Water is supplied by the Segura River or Río Segura and, ever since the 70's, by the Tajo transvasement, a major civil engineering which, under some environmental and sustaintibility restraints, brings water from the Tajo into the Segura. Segura ( Latin Thader, Arabic War-Alabiat, Spanish and Catalan Segura) is a medium-sized The Tagus ( Latin Tagus, Spanish Tajo, Portuguese Tejo, pron. An aqueduct is an artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another

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Geography

Relief

The region is located in the eastern part of the Cordilleras Béticas mountains and it is influenced by their orthography. The Baetic Cordillera is a mountain system streching from Morocco, through Gibraltar and along the southern and eastern parts of Spain. These mountain ranges are divided as well in the Prebética, Subbética and Penibética mountain ranges (from north to the south). The Cordillera Penibética Mountain range is the most southerly of the Baetic Cordillera; it runs along the south coast of Andalusia, from the

Traditionally it has been considered that the peak of Revolcadores, pertaining to the bulk of the same name, was the highest point in the Region of Murcia, with 2,027 meters of height; but in measurements of the most recent maps of the SNIG (National Service of Geographic Information of Spain), Revolcadores appears with a height of 1,999 m, and there is a mountain slightly further north of a similar altitude which is more elevated Los Obispos (The Bishops), with an altitude of 2,015 m. Moratalla ( is a small beautiful town center of a large Municipality (961 km² of the same name in southeastern Spain, belonging to the Autonomous Community

Approximately 27% of the Murcian territory can be described as mountainous, 38% as intramountainous depressions and running valleys, and the remaining 35% as flat lands and plateaux.

Climatology

The Region of Murcia enjoys a Mediterranean climate of semi-arid type, with mild winters (an average of 11C in December and January) and warm summers (where the daily maximum regularly exceeds 40ºC). A Mediterranean climate is one that resembles the Climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, which includes over half of the area with this climate type world-wide A Semi-arid climate or steppe climate generally describes climatic regions that receive low annual Rainfall (250-500 mm or 10-20 in The average annual temperature is 18ºC.

With little precipitation of about 300 to 350 mm per year, the region has between 120 and 150 days in the year where the sky is totally clear. April and October are the months with the most precipitation, there being frequent heavy downpours in a single day.

The distance to the sea and the relief causes thermal difference between the coast and the interior, mainly in winter. While on the coast the temperature rarely descends below 10º, in the interior regions it does not usually rise above 6º and the precipitation level is higher (up to 600 mm).

The city of Murcia holds the record temperature of the 20th century in Spain. It reached 47. 2° on July 4, 1994. The winter of 2005 was the coldest in a long time, with snow even falling on the Murcian coast. [1].

Hydrography

Rivers

The hydrographic network of the region is made up of the Segura river and its affluents:

Due to the water supplying incapacity of the Segura river basin, contributions to this river basin are made, originated from the basin of the Tajo river, by means of the Tajo-Segura trasvasement. The Tagus ( Latin Tagus, Spanish Tajo, Portuguese Tejo, pron.

Seas

The greatest natural lake of Spain can be found in the region: the Mar Menor (Small Sea) lagoon. A lake (from Latin lacus) is a Terrain feature (or Physical feature) a body of Liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Mar Menor ( little sea or small sea) is a salty lagoon in the south-east of the autonomous Community of Murcia, in Spain, separated from the It is a salt water lagoon, adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea. Seawater is Water from a Sea or Ocean. On average seawater in the world's oceans has a Salinity of about 3 Its special ecological and natural characteristics make the Mar Menor a unique natural place and the largest saltwater lake of Europe. With a semicircular shape, it is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a sand strip 22 km in length and between 100 and 1200 m wide, known as La Manga del Mar Menor (the Sleeve of the Small Sea). La Manga del Mar Menor (The Sleeve of the Minor Sea is a Resort town in Murcia, Spain. The lagoon has been designated by THe United Nations as a Specially Protected Zone of Importance for the Mediterranean. Its coastal perimeter accounts for 73 km of coast in which beaches follow one another with crystal clear shallow water (the maximum depth does not exceed7 m). The lake has an area of 170 square kilometers

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History

The Carthaginians established a permanent trading port on the coast at Cartagena, which the Romans called Carthago Nova. Carthage (Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Carthago from the Phoenician קרת חדשת phn-Latn Qart-ḥadašt meaning new town) refers Trade is the willing exchange of goods, services, or both Trade is also called Commerce. Cartagena ( is a Spanish Mediterranean city and naval station in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in the autonomous community of Region of Murcia Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Cartagena ( is a Spanish Mediterranean city and naval station in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in the autonomous community of Region of Murcia For the Carthaginian traders, the mountainous territory was merely the Iberian hinterland of their seacoast empire. The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra An empire (from the Latin " Imperium " denoting military Command within the ancient Roman government) is a State that During The Roman period Murcia did not exist but its actual borders could have been inside of the province of Hispania Carthaginensis. In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin provincia, pl provinciae) was the basic and until the Tetrarchy (circa Under the Moors, who introduced the large-scale irrigation on which Murcian agriculture depends, the province was known as Todmir; it included, according to Idrisi, the 11th century Arab cartographer based in Sicily, the cities of Orihuela, Lorca, Mula and Chinchilla, Spain. The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Muslim (and earlier non-Muslim people of Berber and Arab descent Irrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil usually for assisting in growing crops Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture IDRISI is a Geographic information system (GIS developed by Clark Labs for the analysis and display of digital spatial information The araB gene Promoter is a bacterial promoter activated by e L-arabinose binding Sicily ( Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. For the town in the province of Teruel Spain see Orihuela del Tremedal Orihuela in Spanish or Oriola in Valencian Lorca is a city in southeast Spain, in the autonomous community of Murcia and 36 miles SW of the city of Murcia. Mula is a Municipality in the center of the autonomous community of Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, with approximately 16000 inhabitants Chinchillas are rabbit-sized Crepuscular Rodents native to the Andes mountains in South America.

The Kingdom of Murcia became independent as a taifa centered on the Moorish city of Murcia after the fall of the Omayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (11th century). A taifa (from طائفة ṭā'ifa, plural طوائف ṭawā'if) in the history of Iberia was an independent Muslim -ruled principality The Caliphate of Córdoba (Arabic خلافة قرطبة ruled the Iberian peninsula ( Al-Andalus) and North Africa from the city of Moorish Taifa of Murcia included Albacete and part of Almería as well. Albacete is a city and Municipality in southeastern Spain, 278 km southeast of Madrid the capital of the province of Albacete in the autonomous After the battle of Sagrajas in 1086 the Almoravid dynasty swallowed up the taifas and reunited Islamic Spain. The Almoravids, was a Berber dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula during Ferdinand III of Castile received the submission of the Moorish king of Murcia in 1243. Saint Ferdinand III (July 30 or August 5 1199 &ndash May 30, 1252) was the King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 In the usual way, the Muslims were evicted from the cities, and Ferdinand's heir Alfonso X of Castile, who benefitted from rulen over a largely depopulated Murcia, divided the border kingdom in three regions for administrative purposes, entrusted respectively to the concejos de realengo, to the ecclesiastical señores seculares, as a reward for their contributions to the Reconquista and to the Military Orders founded in the 11th century. Alfonso X (November 23 1221 Toledo Spain &ndash April 4 1284 Seville Spain) was a Spanish monarch who ruled as the King of Castile, The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest" Arabic: الاسترداد, "Recapturing" was a period Alfonso annexed the Taifa of Murcia as King of Murcia and Señorio de Cartagena outright in 1266, and it remained technically a vassal kingdom of Spain until the reforms in the liberal constitution of 1812. Murcia became an autonomous region in 1982. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar)

The Castilian conquest of Murcia was significant because it gave the former access to the Mediterranean for the first time and ended the expansion of the Kingdom of Aragon which had been moving south along the coast. The Kingdom of Aragon was an old kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon (

Demography

The Region of Murcia has a population of 1,335,792 inhabitants (INE 2005, National Statistic Institute of Spain), of which almost a third (30. The National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística is the official organisation in Spain that collects Statistics about demography 7%) live in the municipality of Murcia. It makes up 3. 0% of the Spanish population. In addition, after Ceuta and Melilla, Murcia has the highest vegetative growth (5. Ceuta is an autonomous city of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, which Melilla is an autonomous city of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the North African coast 52 by thousand inhabitants) and also the highest birth rate of the country.

In the 1991-2005 period the Murcian population grew at by 26. 06%, as opposed to the national average of 11. 85%. 12. 35% of the inhabitants are of foreign origin, according to the INE 2005 census, which is 4% more than the Spanish average. The most notable groups of immigrants are Ecuadorians (33. 71% of the total of foreigners), Moroccans (27. 13%), Britons (5. 95%), Bolivians (4. 57%) and Colombians (3. 95%).

Municipalities

Municipalities in Region of Murcia
Municipalities in Region of Murcia
Main article: List of municipalities in Murcia

Language

The Spanish spoken in the region is quite different from other areas of Spain. This is a list of the municipalities in the province and Autonomous community of Murcia, Spain. Murciano dialect tends to eliminate many syllable-final consonants and to emphasize regional vocabulary, much of which is derived from Aragonese and old Arabic words. Murciano, more popularly known as panocho, is a variant of the Spanish language spoken mainly in the Spanish autonomous region of Murcia and adjacent Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language The general intonation and some of the distinctive vocabulary of the Spanish dialect spoken in Murcia share several traits with the one spoken in the neighbouring province of Almería, in Andalucía and the Vega Baja del Segura in the Alicante province. Andalusia (Andalucía is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in terms of land area Vega Baja del Segura ( Valencian: Baix Segura) is a ''comarca'' in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Alicante in Spanish or Alacant (in Valencian) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian

Catalan is spoken in a small area of the Region known as El Carche in Spanish and El Carxe in Catalan. Many murcianos also speak english as Murcia is part of the european community.

What to do

In the Region of Murcia, visitors can engage in activities related to:

For the stay, one can choose between hotels, apartments, alojamientos rurales (rural facilities), and camp sites.

Transport

See also

External links and further reading

Coordinates: 38°00′N 1°30′W / 38, -1.5

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