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Monarch Butterflies in El Rosario, Mexico video #3
Viewing the butterflies in El Rosario sanctuary.
Monarchs by the Millions: Welcome to Butterfly Forest
The largest insect migration in the world ends each year in Michoacán, Mexico. Millions of monarch butterflies travel from the United States and Canada to pass the cold months in the towering trees of this beautiful forest. On their incredible journey, the butterflies travel around 2,800 miles.
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Monarch Overwintering Biology ID
Presented by Emma Pelton (Xerces Society) and Dr. Pablo Jaramillo (Monarch Butterfly Fund). They will discuss the ins and outs of monarch overwintering behavior, biology and migration. January 26, 2017.
Monarch overwintering experts from both eastern and western populations of monarchs will discuss the ins and outs of monarch overwintering behavior, biology and migration. Monarchs are unique in the insect world for their long distance multi-generational migration and their incredible numbers in the oyamel fir forests of Mexico and scattered groves along California's Pacific coast. Learn about the Goldilocks conditions which make these forests just right for overwintering and what monarchs need to survive this season. Also, learn about the threats that these important forests (and the monarchs who rely on them) face and the questions left unanswered about monarch migration. Plus take a sneak peek at all the different ways humans try to count thousands and millions of monarchs each year!
News - Youth to Make a Difference on Mexico Mission
By: Madhava Smullen ISKCON News on Nov. 26, 2014
Around forty North American youth aged 17 and up will spend this Christmas and New Year’s on the adventure of a lifetime.
Traveling 7,000 miles all the way from Alachua, Florida to Cancun, Mexico and back on ISKCON Youth Ministry’s Krishna Culture Tour bus, they’ll stage festivals and change lives all over Mexico.
During the tour, which will run from December 12th to January 4th, they’ll also make new friendships, rekindle old ones, and see some of the most beautiful nature spots in the country.
At each city they stop at, the youth will organize, advertise and put on “Festival of India” – a Hare Krishna cultural show featuring Bharat Natyam dancers; a slideshow introducing people to the concept and benefits of mantra meditation; a participatory kirtan that has the audience chanting and dancing along; and a prasadam feast cooked in the bus’s kitchen by the youth.
The festival sites are a mix of urban and rural injected with local Mexican color, starting with the Metropolitan Museum of Monterrey, the largest city in the Northeast of the country.
Then there’s the mountain village of Xilitla. “The indigenous people, descendents of the original inhabitants of Mexico, come to their town square to have a festival with us,” says ISKCON youth minister Manorama Das, who has been running tours since 1995. “It’s very sweet.”
In the city of Tampico, on the Gulf Coast, the youth will likely sell out the Tampico University Auditorium for a festival promoted on TV and in newspapers by volunteer José , who had never been in contact with devotees before discovering the Krishna Culture tour online and emailing them saying, “You guys are so cool, I want to bring you to my city.”
In Veracruz the youth hope to perform in the downtown square opposite the Municipal Palace. And in Villahermosa, they’ll perform right in front of the Olmeca hotel with permission from the management, who will request customers to “Come eat dinner with us, and participate in this great spectacle!”
In Merida, they’ll stage another festival organized by a volunteer, this time Ariana, an exchange student ISKCON youth met and inspired in Thunderbay, Canada, during their summer tour. They’ll also perform at the beautiful central market place in the Spanish colonial town of Valladolid, and at Parque de las Palapas in the tourist center of Cancun.
A standout will be Orizaba, a town at the foot of Pico de Orizaba, the tallest volcano in the Western Hemisphere. There, youth will perform their Festival of India show in a bandshell in the local park, enclosed by old fortress-style rustic rock walls, to an expected 400 to 500 people.
The grand finale will be a massive midnight Harinama at Plaza de la Republica in downtown Mexico City. As live entertainment and TV broadcasts go on and fireworks explode in the sky, the youth will cut right into the center of the crowd and get them dancing and chanting the Holy Name.
In between all these festivals, the youth will visit the vivid blue Agua Azul cascading waterfalls in the state of Chiapas; go snorkeling in the second largest coral reef in the world off Cozumel Island in the Caribbean; and see the Mayan pyramids in Palenque; the famous flying acrobats of Voladores; and the millions of Monarch Butterflies at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.
They’ll also relax and do kirtan at a yoga studio on the beach in Tulum; enjoy a fourteen-course feast at a devotee’s home in Tulancingo; hear stories about the early days of ISKCON Mexico from pioneer Chitsukananda Das; and celebrate with kirtan and prasadam at Guru-Prasad Swami’s house in Houston, Texas on their way back home.
ISKCON Youth Ministry’s bus tours might be more work than your average holiday, but they also mean much more to the youth who go on them.
“They see people crying in the audience while we’re chanting, having these transformational experiences,” says Manorama. “They have people hugging them and telling them how moved they were by the performances and how much they loved the chanting and dancing. They see people come up to our book table and ask them for books. And they realize, ‘Oh my God, we did all this. We contacted these venues, we connected with these people, we put on this huge festival. There’s not a single older devotee here – nobody helped us.’”
“And I think what happens,” he concludes, “Is that the kids realize that they themselves can make a difference in Prabhupada’s preaching mission.”
Monarch Conservation Science Partnership
Presented by Dr. Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota Monarch Lab; Ryan Drum, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Wayne Thogmartin, United States Geological Survey. May 25, 2016.
Monarch conservation will require the involvement of the governments, non-government organizations, and citizens of all three North American countries. It will also require that limited resources are spent in ways that are most likely to help monarchs. Monarch biologists, habitat conservation practitioners, and landscape scientists have been meeting for over two years to create a blueprint for ensuring that monarch conservation strategies are based on our best available science. This group has worked to create a target for monarch population numbers that will minimize risks of extinction, develop regional priorities for habitat protection and restoration, and identify the most important risks to monarch populations. In this webinar, we'll summarize the work of the Monarch Conservation Science Partnership, ending with concrete suggestions for local, regional, and continental action.
Karen Oberhauser is a Professor in the Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota, where she and her students conduct research on several aspects of monarch butterfly ecology. In 1996, she and graduate student Michelle Prysby started the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project, which engages hundreds of volunteers throughout North America. In 2013, Karen received a White House Champion of Change award for her work with Citizen Science.
Ryan Drum is a Landscape Ecologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. His work is focused on linking biological planning, conservation design, on-the-ground delivery, and monitoring to guide landscape-scale adaptive management in the Midwest-Great Lakes Region and beyond. Ryan serves as the USFWS co-lead for the Monarch Conservation Science Partnership and is also the Service lead for Trinational Monarch Conservation Science Partnership.
Wayne Thogmartin is a research ecologist with the United States Geological Survey at the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His research is generally focused on the statistical and mathematical ecology of rare and declining species. Current work involves developing continental-scale energetic-based models of migratory waterfowl, half-life and extinction risk calculations as a means of prioritizing species for conservation action, and calculating the value of a subpopulation to system dynamics to better understand the flow of ecosystem services as a function of migration. He is co-lead of the USGS Monarch Conservation Science Partnership.
Monarch butterfly
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly. Its wings feature an easily recognizable orange and black pattern, with a wingspan of 8.9–10.2 cm (3½–4 in). (The viceroy butterfly is similar in color and pattern, but is markedly smaller, and has an extra black stripe across the hind wing.)
The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its southward late summer/autumn migration from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico, covering thousands of miles. The western North American population of monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains most often migrate to sites in California but have been found in overwintering Mexico sites.
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Major 7.0 Earthquake Michoacan Mexico
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7.0
Date-Time
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 22:55:16 UTC
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 05:55:16 PM at epicenter
Location
18.390°N, 102.652°W
Depth
65.6 km (40.8 miles)
Region
MICHOACAN, MEXICO
Distances
51 km (32 miles) SW (231°) from La Mira, Michoacán, Mexico
61 km (38 miles) NW (312°) from Las Guacamayas, Michoacán, Mexico
64 km (40 miles) NW (316°) from La Orilla, Michoacán, Mexico
130 km (81 miles) SSW (208°) from Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
336 km (209 miles) WNW (301°) from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
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horizontal +/- 16.7 km (10.4 miles); depth +/- 12 km (7.5 miles)
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Andalusia (; Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a]; Portuguese: Andaluzia) is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a historical nationality. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville (Spanish: Sevilla).
Andalusia is located in a privileged area in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in south-western Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. Andalusia is the only European region with both Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the Sierra Morena and the Baetic System, consisting of the Subbaetic and Penibaetic Mountains, separated by the Intrabaetic Basin. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. To the south the geographic subregion of Upper Andalusia lies mostly within the Baetic System, while Lower Andalusia is in the Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir.The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس). The toponym al-Andalus is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new Muslim government of Iberia. These coins, called dinars, were inscribed in both Latin and Arabic. The etymology of the name al-Andalus has traditionally been derived from the name of the Vandals; however, a number of proposals since the 1980s have challenged this contention. Halm in 1989 derived the name from a Gothic term, *landahlauts,
and in 2002, Bossong suggested its derivation from a pre-Roman substrate. The region's history and culture have been influenced by the native Iberians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, Byzantines,
Jews, Romani, Muslim Moors and the Castilian and other Christian North Iberian nationalities who reconquered and settled the area in the latter phases of the Reconquista.
Andalusia has been a traditionally agricultural region, compared to the rest of Spain and the rest of Europe. However, the growth of the community especially in the sectors of industry and services was above average in Spain and higher than many communities in the Eurozone. The region has a rich culture and a strong identity. Many cultural phenomena that are seen internationally as distinctively Spanish are largely or entirely Andalusian in origin. These include flamenco and, to a lesser extent, bullfighting and Hispano-Moorish architectural styles, both of which are also prevalent in other regions of Spain.
Andalusia's hinterland is the hottest area of Europe, with cities like Córdoba and Seville averaging above 36 °C (97 °F) in summer high temperatures. Late evening temperatures can sometimes stay around 35 °C (95 °F) until close to midnight, with daytime highs of over 40 °C (104 °F) common. Seville also has the highest average annual temperature in mainland Spain and mainland Europe (19.2 °C), closely followed by Almería (19.1 °C).
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Rio de Janeiro (; Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈnejɾu]; River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, the second-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea, by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. Later, in 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court transferred itself from Portugal to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the chosen seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal, who subsequently, in 1815, under the leadership of her son, the Prince Regent, and future King João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves. Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the War of Brazilian Independence began. This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília.
Rio de Janeiro has the second largest municipal GDP in the country, and 30th largest in the world in 2008, estimated at about R$343 billion (IBGE, 2008) (nearly US$201 billion). It is headquarters to Brazilian oil, mining, and telecommunications companies, including two of the country's major corporations – Petrobras and Vale – and Latin America's largest telemedia conglomerate, Grupo Globo. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second-largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific output according to 2005 data. Despite the high perception of crime, the city has a lower incidence of crime than Northeast Brazil, but it is far more criminalized than the south region of Brazil, which is considered the safest in the country.Rio de Janeiro is one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, Carnival, samba, bossa nova, and balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. In addition to the beaches, some of the most famous landmarks include the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado mountain, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World; Sugarloaf Mountain with its cable car; the Sambódromo (Sambadrome), a permanent grandstand-lined parade avenue which is used during Carnival; and Maracanã Stadium, one of the world's largest football stadiums. Rio de Janeiro was the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, making the city the first South American and Portuguese-speaking city to ever host the events, and the third time the Olympics were held in a Southern Hemisphere city. The Maracanã Stadium held the finals of the 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and the XV Pan American Games.
Nicaragua | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:03 1 Etymology
00:03:20 2 History
00:03:28 2.1 Pre-Columbian history
00:05:08 2.2 Spanish era (1522–1821)
00:08:50 2.3 Independence (1821)
00:11:06 2.4 United States occupation (1909–33)
00:14:18 2.5 Somoza dynasty (1927–1979)
00:17:19 2.6 Nicaraguan Revolution (1960s–1990)
00:22:14 2.7 Post-war (1990–present)
00:27:06 3 Geography and climate
00:28:51 3.1 Pacific lowlands
00:31:28 3.2 North central highlands
00:32:58 3.3 Caribbean lowlands
00:34:49 4 Nature and environment
00:34:58 4.1 Flora and fauna
00:37:02 4.2 Climate change
00:37:39 5 Government
00:38:46 5.1 Foreign relations
00:39:11 5.2 Military
00:40:12 5.3 Law enforcement
00:40:59 5.4 Administrative divisions
00:41:40 6 Economy
00:50:04 6.1 Tourism
00:54:04 7 Demographics
00:56:14 7.1 Ethnic groups
00:58:29 7.2 Languages
01:00:19 7.3 Largest cities
01:00:27 7.4 Religion
01:03:11 7.5 Immigration
01:04:27 7.6 Diaspora
01:05:35 7.7 Healthcare
01:06:28 7.8 Education
01:08:15 7.9 Gender Equality
01:10:48 8 Culture
01:12:00 8.1 Music
01:13:37 8.2 Dance
01:14:26 8.3 Literature
01:16:19 8.4 Cuisine
01:18:16 8.5 Media
01:18:54 8.6 Sports
01:20:33 9 See also
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Nicaragua ( (listen); Spanish: [nikaˈɾaɣwa]), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua ), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Managua is the country's capital and largest city and is also the third-largest city in Central America, behind Tegucigalpa and Guatemala City. The multi-ethnic population of six million includes people of indigenous, European, African, and Asian heritage. The main language is Spanish. Native tribes on the Mosquito Coast speak their own languages and English.
Originally inhabited by various indigenous cultures since ancient times, the Spanish Empire conquered the region in the 16th century. Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821. The Mosquito Coast followed a different historical path, with the English colonizing it in the 17th century and later coming under the British rule, as well as some minor Spanish interludes in the 19th century. It became an autonomous territory of Nicaragua in 1860 and the northernmost part of it was later transferred to Honduras in 1960. Since its independence, Nicaragua has undergone periods of political unrest, dictatorship, occupation and fiscal crisis, leading to the Nicaraguan Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the Contra War of the 1980s.
The mixture of cultural traditions has generated substantial diversity in folklore, cuisine, music, and literature, particularly the latter given the literary contributions of Nicaraguan poets and writers, such as Rubén Darío. Known as the land of lakes and volcanoes, Nicaragua is also home to the second-largest rainforest of the Americas. The country has set a goal of 90% renewable energy by the year 2020. The biological diversity, warm tropical climate and active volcanoes make Nicaragua an increasingly popular tourist destination.
Sonora | Wikipedia audio article
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Sonora
00:01:30 1 Etymology
00:03:02 2 History
00:03:10 2.1 Pre-Hispanic period
00:06:41 2.2 European civilization
00:11:50 2.3 Independence
00:19:00 2.4 20th century
00:31:12 3 Geography and environment
00:31:22 3.1 Natural divisions
00:32:30 3.2 Center plains and coast
00:36:47 3.3 Sierra Madre Occidental
00:37:28 3.4 Flora and fauna
00:41:29 3.5 Climate
00:45:11 3.6 Hydrology
00:46:17 3.7 Protected areas
00:50:15 4 Politics and government
00:50:29 5 The border
00:53:55 6 Demographics
00:54:04 6.1 General population
00:55:17 6.2 Indigenous population
01:05:28 7 Economy
01:05:37 7.1 General profile
01:07:26 7.2 Agriculture and livestock
01:12:03 7.3 Fishing
01:13:34 7.4 Industry and mining
01:17:14 7.5 Tourism
01:26:25 7.6 The Border
01:29:40 7.7 Handcrafts
01:33:20 8 Culture
01:37:48 8.1 Archaeology
01:39:48 8.2 Gastronomy
01:44:20 9 Education
01:46:16 10 Transportation
01:47:25 11 Famous people
01:47:50 12 See also
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Sonora (Spanish pronunciation: [soˈnoɾa] (listen)), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (English: Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of 31 states that, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of United Mexican States. It is divided into 72 municipalities; the capital city is Hermosillo.
Sonora is bordered by the states of Chihuahua to the east, Baja California to the northwest and Sinaloa to the south. To the north, it shares the U.S.–Mexico border with the states of Arizona and New Mexico, and on the west has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of California.
Sonora's natural geography is divided into three parts: the Sierra Madre Occidental in the east of the state; plains and rolling hills in the center; and the coast on the Gulf of California. It is primarily arid or semiarid deserts and grasslands, with only the highest elevations having sufficient rainfall to support other types of vegetation.
Sonora is home to eight indigenous peoples, including the Mayo, the Yaqui, and Seri. It has been economically important for its agriculture, livestock (especially beef), and mining since the colonial period, and for its status as a border state since the Mexican–American War. With the Gadsden Purchase, Sonora lost more than a quarter of its territory. From the 20th century to the present, industry, tourism, and agribusiness have dominated the economy, attracting migration from other parts of Mexico.
Andalusia | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:32 1 Name
00:07:53 2 Symbols
00:12:18 3 Geography
00:13:00 3.1 Location
00:13:48 3.2 Climate
00:18:32 3.3 Terrain
00:21:11 3.4 Hydrography
00:22:54 3.5 Soils
00:24:53 3.6 Flora
00:27:31 3.7 Fauna
00:30:19 3.8 Protected areas
00:32:27 4 History
00:34:13 4.1 Carthaginians and Romans
00:35:10 4.2 Vandals, Visigoths and the Byzantine Empire
00:36:10 4.3 Al-Andalus
00:40:56 4.4 Kingdom of Castile
00:42:32 4.5 Early modern era
00:45:02 4.6 Francoist oppressions
00:46:29 5 Government and politics
00:50:40 5.1 Andalusian Autonomous Government
00:53:42 5.2 Judicial power
00:54:22 6 Administrative divisions
00:54:32 6.1 Provinces
00:55:19 6.2 Comarcas and mancomunidades
00:56:32 6.3 Municipalities and local entities
00:58:54 6.4 Main cities
00:59:02 7 Demographics
00:59:50 7.1 Population change
01:01:34 7.2 Structure
01:02:54 7.3 Immigration
01:04:14 8 Economy
01:05:13 8.1 Primary sector
01:06:16 8.1.1 Agriculture, husbandry, hunting, and forestry
01:10:56 8.1.2 Fishing
01:12:26 8.1.3 Mining
01:13:23 8.2 Secondary sector: industry
01:15:23 8.3 Tertiary sector: services
01:17:07 8.3.1 Tourism in Andalusia
01:22:32 8.3.1.1 Monuments and features
01:22:41 8.4 Unemployment
01:22:59 9 Infrastructure
01:23:08 9.1 Transport
01:28:00 9.2 Energy infrastructure
01:30:02 9.3 Education
01:31:09 9.4 Healthcare
01:31:44 9.5 Science and technology
01:33:24 10 Media
01:34:14 10.1 Newspapers
01:35:31 10.2 Public television
01:36:20 10.3 Radio
01:36:59 11 Art and culture
01:39:14 11.1 Arts
01:40:13 11.1.1 Architecture
01:44:06 11.1.2 Sculpture
01:45:34 11.1.3 Painting
01:47:01 11.2 Literature and philosophy
01:50:49 11.3 Music of Andalusia
01:53:29 11.4 Film
01:56:01 11.5 Culture
01:56:10 11.5.1 Customs and society
01:59:11 11.5.2 Andalusian Spanish
01:59:57 11.5.3 Religion
02:01:54 11.5.4 Bullfighting
02:02:57 11.5.5 Festivals
02:04:35 11.5.6 Cuisine
02:08:32 11.5.7 Other traditions
02:10:32 12 Sports
02:10:41 12.1 Team sports
02:13:14 12.2 Olympics
02:15:19 12.3 Other sports
02:16:06 13 Twinning and covenants
02:16:30 14 Image gallery
02:16:40 15 See also
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Andalusia (UK: , US: ; Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a]; Portuguese: Andaluzia) is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous, and the second largest autonomous community in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a historical nationality. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville.
Andalusia is located in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in southwestern Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. Andalusia is the only European region with both Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the Sierra Morena and the Baetic System, consisting of the Subbaetic and Penibaetic Mountains, separated by the Intrabaetic Basin. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. To the south the geographic subregion of Upper Andalusia lies mostly within the Baetic System, while Lower Andalusia is in the Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir.The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس). The toponym al-Andalus is first att ...
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