Guadacorte

Guadacorte
Barriada (pedanía)
Guadacorte

Location in the Province of Cádiz

Coordinates: 36°11′30″N 5°25′29″W / 36.19167°N 5.42472°W / 36.19167; -5.42472
Country  Spain
Autonomous community  Andalusia
Province Cádiz
Comarca Campo de Gibraltar
Municipality Los Barrios
Judicial district Algeciras
Population (2009)
  Total 1,113
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 11370, Railway station: 11379
Dialing code (+34) 956
Official language(s) Spanish

Guadacorte is a village and district of the Spanish municipality of Los Barrios in the Province of Cádiz, Spain, between Gibraltar and Algeciras. It is located eight kilometers east of the main town of the municipality and had a population of 1,113 inhabitants in 2009.

This town is located on the right bank of the Guadarranque River, which separates the towns of San Roque and Los Barrios.[1] Taraguilla lies to the north across the river, and Los Cortijillos is just to the south. There is a nineteenth-century chapel and a park and wetland with a lake of the same name, which has a permanent population of ducks and cisnes.[2]

References

  1. Gibert, Gibert Clols; Gibert, Josep (1999). Los homínidos y su entorno en el Pleistoceno inferior y medio de Eurasia: actas del Congreso Internacional de Paleontología Humana, Orce 1995. Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología "J. Gibert". Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  2. Finlayson, Clive; Cortés, John Emmanuel (1987). The Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar: Its Waters and Northern Shore. Gibraltar Ornithological & Natural History Society. Retrieved 16 February 2013.


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