Huelva

The city has been a meeting point for different cultures and civilizations. In 2006, in an area remains dating between 3000 and 2500 BC were found and the discovery of two pipes with around thirty pieces of prehistoric artefacts making the Capital Onubense the oldest continuous settlement on theIberian Peninsula

Historians agree the foundation of the town was by the Phoenicians under Onoba.

In the nineteenth century, with the development of copper mining in the North of the Province saw an impressive process of industrialization and growth for the city.

The twentieth century saw the City linked economically to the chemical industry and large industrial developments in chemical industries, oil refinery, copper metallurgy, pulp and power.

This however is responsible for environmental degradation. Importance lies in the education and fishing industries as well. In the Atlantic-Gulf ofCadiz has on tof the largest fishing fleets in the country.

Being the Capital of Province it houses the major utilities in the area of Provincial, regional and state. The city's name comes from the old Huelva Onuba as shown in the Greek sources and Onuba or Onuba Aestuaria in Latin. The term comes from one of the pre-Roman languages of the peninsula and its significance is unknown.

In the eighteenth century there was confusion regarding the historic references to the city alluding to a city in the area of Cordova bearing the same name. The city has reference in the works of classical authors from Pomponio Mela, Pliny the Elder, Strabo and Ptolemy.

In time the name appears in Arabic as forms or Gaelbah Umba, although the most documented is Welba, Guerba in the local pronunciation and the result of phonetic evolution of Latin Onuba – Huenoba, Hueloba- Huelva.

The name "Onuba" has often been used by various companies and institutions in the city in the twentieth century and is the basis of the adjective official people of the city and the provinceHuelva.

Huelva is found at an altitude of 54 m and distances toSeville 94km, 235 km toBadajoz , 242 km toCadiz and 618 km toMadrid. The area is 149 km 2 and it was founded in the tenth century ad and a population of over 148 000 people and a population density of 993 people per km2.

The City ofHuelva is a Spanish Capital City of Andalusia. It is located in the estuary at the confluence of the rivers Tinto and Odiel, belonging to theGuadiana River. It is the Capital of the Province since 1833 and was awarded the status of City in 1876.

Huelva is located in a small Peninsula confluence of the rivers Tinto and Odiel, in the so-called flat land belonging to the River Guadiana. The two rivers merge in the point known as Punta del Sebo or peninsula or Anicoba Huelva. The average altitude ranges from zero to fifty-four meters above the sea level.

Huelva is in the coastal plain belonging to the area in Betica the formations abound in marshes, canyons, lagoons, estuaries, along sandy areas. It consists mainly of very fine material, typically clay, and exposed natural weathering.

The confluence of the two rivers is important as the Tinto which rises in the mountains of eastern Andevalo is a dead river due to the large amount of dissolved minerals in the water due to the mining activity in the Rio Tinto basin located to the north.

Sheltered from the sea by the Barra de Huelva, to the south of the city are marshes the river estuary the various islands that make the natural landscape. The vegetation of the area is typical Mediterranean. The city's climate is typically Mediterranean between the subtropical and temperate with Atlantic influences and the average temperature is 19.2 ° C which makes this city one of the warmest in Europe and receiving 2984 hours of sunshine annually.

The warmest month is July, exceeding 40 ° C on several occasions in the summer. The coldest month is January, when the minimum is about 7 ° C and maximum 17 ° C

Mining in the nineteenth century and the construction of the relative industry has seen a growth of thousands of new citizens from the 1700 being around 5000 to more than 145 000 people now and regionally more than 200 000 in the surrounding towns Aljaraque, Moguer, San Juan del Puerto, Punta Umbria, Gibraleon and Palos de la Frontera.