A population of over 63000 inhabitants,
with a population density of over 300 inhabitants per km ² and it is the head
of the judicial district No. 6 in the province of Cadiz,
under which the municipalities are Trebujena and Chipiona. It is part of the
administrative district of the Northwest Coast of Cadiz and is part of the
Association of Municipalities of Bajo Guadalquivir and the Association of
Municipalities of the District of Donana.
From a geographical and cultural
perspective the area belongs to the Lower Andalusia, a notable wine territory
Framework of Jerez and the Cadiz
area including the Flemish ports. The Archpriest of Sanlucar de Barrameda is
under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Bishop of the Diocese of
Asidonia-Jerez. Is twinned with the Belgian municipality
of Koekelberg, San
Sebastian de los Reyes, in Venezuela, and the Andalusian
cities of Palos de la Frontera and Almonte.
The railroad was discontinued in the eighties and transport of passengers is
limited to the barge across the Guadalquivir
River to the Other Banda, used during
special occasions and the Real Fernando ship that takes visitors to the nearby National Park of Donana.
The only current
access to Sanlucar de Barrameda is by road. The main roads out of Sanlucar are,
the A-471 to Trebujena, Lebrija and Las Cabezas, and from there connects with
the toll motorway AP-4 and the N-IV to Seville and Madrid, the A-480 Jerez de
la Frontera, the A-2001 Road to Puerto de Santa Marķa, with a link from there
to Cadiz and Puerto Real, the A-2077 Costa Ballena and Rota and the A-480 to
Chipiona.
There is a bus service with daily departures to Puerto de Santa Marķa and Cadiz, Chipiona, Costa Ballena, Trebujena, Lebrija, Las
Cabezas, Los Palacios, Seville and Dos Hermanas. The nearest
railway stations are those of Jerez de la Frontera 26 km and Puerto de Santa
Marķa 20 km, both located on the Railway line linking Seville
and Cadiz.
The nearest airports
are Jerez 35 km and Seville
134 km and Gibraltar 147 km and Malaga
255 km.
From ancient times the Marco de Jerez was
one area of production and aging of wine. In the case of Sanlucar, it is
documented the export of wine to England
and Flanders from the Port de Barrameda during
the Middle Ages.
Since the late eighteenth century and early
nineteenth century, the wines of the area underwent major changes, caused by
the introduction of new farming techniques, new grape varieties and new ways of
preparing the juice. The explosion in Sanlucar of viniviticultura family
winemakers from northern Spain,
called "highlanders", has increased the wine industry and promoted
industry in other fields as well.
Along with the owners of large vineyards is the
Mayet, a niche production wine whose name is linked with the term rotate
mayeteria.
The town of Sanlucar de
Barrameda is located in the province of Cadiz.
The town is situated on the left bank of the estuary of the Guadalquivir River,
in front of the Donana National Park, 44 km far from the provincial capital,
Cadiz, and 126 km from the capital, Seville with a population
of around 64,000 inhabitants.
Transport and Communications
A railway network is built linking Sanlucar with
places and cities in its vicinity. Other notable interests is its placing n the
geographical centre of the Costa de la Luz, 44 km from the provincial capital, Cadiz. Within its
boundaries is the Pinar-Algaida Marshes Bonanza, which forms part of the
Natural Park of Donana, in the marshes of the Guadalquivir.
Manzanilla de Sanlucar
Manzanilla de Sanlucar de Barrameda
The wine is called manzanilla Sanlucar characterized by being served only in
Sanlucar, and is popular both inside and outside the city. The Board of
Demonimaciones-Xeres of the Origin of the Jerez-Sherry and Manzanilla-Sanlucar
de Barrameda was established in 1933.
Traditional varieties of chamomile are
"manzanilla fina" and "Chamomile past." In recent years
consumption is common in the fairs of Andalusia
rebujito called, a mixture of chamomile and lemonade. Sanlucar now has several
wineries attached to the Board of Brandy de Jerez established 1987 and
regulating the sherry vinegar industry.
With high tide flooded the yard fill with
fish, molluscs, crustaceans and other marine life, which are trapped inside the
corral after the next low tide. The barricade is used by the fishermen today
and is called corraleras tarraya or the cast. Also in the Guadalquivir
was fishing for sturgeon until they were fished out of the waters in the second
half of the twentieth century. The harvesting of oysters has grown in
significance in the second half of the twentieth century.
Fisheries
Fishing port of Bonanza,
The city is situated on the stocks of the mouth of the Guadalquivir, a space-tidal
key in important to the raising of a number of marine species in the Gulf of Cadiz. In The Charidad Guzmanes, of the
early seventeenth century refers to in detail all the species that were fished
sea at the time in Sanlucar, and it is an important historical source.
Along the coast there were a number of
yards of fishing which are currently unused. These pens are a stone barricades
roughly semicircular shape and a maximum height of 1.5 m., built in the wide
sandy beach on the Atlantic coast when they are exposed at low tide.
