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Andalusia or Andalucía?

The autonomous region of Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is in the southern part of Spain. It spans from Atlantic coast in the west to the sheltered coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the east and from Málaga's Costa del Sol to the borders of Castilla – La Mancha the famous flat lands and Don Quixote windmill country.  With an average of 300 plus days of sunshine a year the coastal area is an all year round destination. Not so in the inland provinces of Cordoba, Jaen and Sevilla which ha ve baking hot summers that can reach +40c and cold winters which can be 0c or less overnight. The Mezquita, Córdoba Andalusia is divided into eight provinces, each with a provincial city of the same name. Some of them are far more famous than others: Almería , Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Sevilla. The three land-locked provinces are Córdoba, Jaé n and Sevilla, the rest are coastal. Each province and city is full of culture, history, traditions, fabulous monuments and cre...
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Spanish Coasts - Which Costa is Where in Spain? Map of Spain´s Costas

Which costa is where in Spain? Have you ever wondered about the names of the different parts of the Spanish coast? Which Costa is where? Costa this and costa that? But what part of Spain is it on, the north, the Med coast, the Atlantic coast. 


The Spanish Coasts - Costas in Spain


While I knew my costas in Andalucia, that knowledge was a bit hazy once rounding the Andalucian coast into Murchia and up along the Mediterranean coast of Valencia and even worse up in the north so I raked out one of the maps from my kids school books and learnt my coasts. Now I have popped them on Spanish Coasts or Costas de España map for you. 


Map of Spain´s Coasts, Costas
Map of Spain´s Costas


So, now you know which costa is where in Spain.


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