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Guadacorte

Coordinates: 36°11′30″N 5°25′29″W / 36.19167°N 5.42472°W / 36.19167; -5.42472
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Guadacorte
Barriada (pedanía)
Guadacorte is located in Province of Cádiz
Guadacorte
Guadacorte
Location in the Province of Cádiz
Guadacorte is located in Spain
Guadacorte
Guadacorte
Guadacorte (Spain)
Coordinates: 36°11′30″N 5°25′29″W / 36.19167°N 5.42472°W / 36.19167; -5.42472
Country Spain
Autonomous community Andalusia
ProvinceCádiz
ComarcaCampo de Gibraltar
MunicipalityLos Barrios
Judicial districtAlgeciras
Population
 (2009)
 • Total1,113
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
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

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  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.