Guardamar del Segura

Coordinates: 38°5′23″N 0°39′18″W / 38.08972°N 0.65500°W / 38.08972; -0.65500
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Guardamar del Segura
Municipality
Postal code
03140 and 03149
Dialing code965 and 966
Official language(s)Spanish and Valencian

Guardamar del Segura (Valencian pronunciation:

Valencia (autonomous community), Spain. It is a Mediterranean resort, with a large pine forest abutting an 11-km-long white sand beach
.

Historically an area of fishermen and farmers, Guardamar del Segura is the southernmost point where Valencian is spoken. A Phoenician colony, called Herna by Roman

Ora Maritima was the first settlement near the mouth of Segura river,[2]
In Spanish, "guardar" means "safekeeping" and "mar" means "sea", and this is another possible basis for its current name.

Guardamar is the southernmost

Fogueres de Sant Joan
, which commemorate its history.

Population

The INE (Spanish Census) of 2006 showed that the city had 14,261 residents. By January 2011 this figure had reached 16,863 of which 10,051 were Spanish. The total dropped by 2015 to 15,589. The most prominent nationalities in 2015 were:

Historical population
(1857-2015)[4]
Year Population Year Population
1857 2,696 1960 4,586
1887 2,549 1970 4,715
1900 2,862 1981 5,708
1910 2,898 1991 7,513
1920 3,067 2001 9,944
1930 4,016 2004 12,215
1940 4,703 2007 15,132
1950 4,704 2011 16,683
2015 15,589
Foreign population
(official data, 2015)
Nationality Percentage
 United Kingdom 8,93
 Russia 3,49
 Bulgaria 2,24
 Germany 2,02
 Ukraine 1,92
 Morocco 1,71
 Romania 1,37
 China 0,84
 Italy 0,76

Government

Guardamar City Hall

Carmen Verdú is the mayor of the city. In the latest

absolute majority
, larger than the one the former major (María Elena Albentosa) had, while the opposition (Socialist Party) lost some of their popular support. She is the second woman ever to occupy this position.

At the

2015 local elections
, the political composition on the local council was:

Party[5] Seats
PP 8
PSOE 7
IU-Acord Ciutadà 1
We Want Guardamar del Segura 1

Geography

Climate

Climate data for Guardamar del Segura
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 16
(61) 		17
(63) 		19
(66) 		20
(68) 		23
(73) 		27
(81) 		30
(86) 		31
(88) 		28
(82) 		24
(75) 		20
(68) 		17
(63) 		23
(73)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 6
(43) 		7
(45) 		8
(46) 		10
(50) 		13
(55) 		16
(61) 		19
(66) 		20
(68) 		18
(64) 		14
(57) 		10
(50) 		7
(45) 		12
(54)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 25
(1.0) 		29
(1.1) 		28
(1.1) 		34
(1.3) 		29
(1.1) 		20
(0.8) 		7
(0.3) 		13
(0.5) 		37
(1.5) 		67
(2.6) 		46
(1.8) 		36
(1.4) 		371
(14.5)
Source: holiday-weather.com

Points of interests

References

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ISBN 1-57506-056-6
  3. ^ "Fons estadístic documental - Generalitat Valenciana". www.edu.gva.es. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. national census
    .
  5. ^ MIR - Guardamar de Segura.

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