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Extremadura (Шаблон:IPA-es; Шаблон:Lang-ext; Шаблон:Lang-pt; Fala: Extremaúra) is a landlocked autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it is crossed from east to west by the Tagus and Guadiana rivers. The autonomous community is formed by the two largest provinces of Spain: Cáceres and Badajoz. Extremadura is bordered by Portugal to the west and by the autonomous communities of Castile and León (north), Castilla–La Mancha (east), and Andalusia (south).
It is an important area for wildlife, particularly with the major reserve at Monfragüe, which was designated a National Park in 2007, and the International Tagus River Natural Park (Parque Natural Tajo Internacional). The regional government is led by the President of the Regional Government of Extremadura, a post currently held by María Guardiola of the People's Party.
The Day of Extremadura is celebrated on 8 September.[1] It coincides with the Catholic festivity of Our Lady of Guadalupe.[1]
The region, featuring an enormous energy surplus and hosting lithium deposits, is at the forefront of Spain's plans for energy transition and decarbonisation.
Geography
Physical environment
Extremadura is contained between Шаблон:Nowrap and Шаблон:Nowrap latitude, and Шаблон:Nowrap and Шаблон:Nowrap longitude.
The area of Extremadura is Шаблон:Convert, making it the fifth largest of the Spanish autonomous communities. It is located in the Southern Plateau (a subdivision of the Spanish Central Plateau).
The region is crossed from West to East by two large rivers, the Tagus and the Guadiana, lining up three basic areas from North to South by combining mountain ranges and rivers: the territory spanning from the Sistema Central to the Tagus, the so-called Mesopotamia extremeña in between the Tagus and the Guadiana and the territory from the Guadiana to Sierra Morena.Шаблон:Sfn Besides the catchment basins of the Tagus and the Guadiana covering most of the territory by far, fringe areas of the region are drained by the Douro (north) and the Guadalquivir (south). Notable Tagus tributaries include the Tiétar and the Alagón (rightbank) and the Almonte, Ibor, Salor and the Sever (leftbank). Regarding the Guadiana, important leftbank tributaries include Guadarranque and Ruecas and rightbank tributaries include the Zújar River and the Matachel.
The highest point in Extremadura, the Шаблон:Convert high Calvitero (or El Torreón),[2] is located in the Sistema Central, in the northeastern end of the region, bordering with Castile and León. The main subranges of the Sistema Central in Extremadura are the Sierra de Gata and Sierra de Béjar.
The modest heights of Sierra de las Villuercas (topping at Шаблон:Convert on the Pico de las Villuercas) rise in the Mesopotamia extremeña. Other notable ranges include the Sierra de Montánchez and the Sierra de San Pedro, part of the larger Montes de Toledo system.[3]
The Sierra Morena—the limit between Extremadura and Andalusia—and the Sierra de Tentudía (topping at Шаблон:Convert on the Pico Tentudía) rise in the south.
There are four different hydrographic basins:
- The basin of the Tagus (Шаблон:Lang-es), with two principal tributaries: on the right, the Tiétar and the Alagón; and on the left, the Almonte, Ibor, Salor and the Sever. The tributaries on the right edge carry a large quantity of water, which feed the gorges of the Sistema Central where the rainfall is abundant and the winter brings a great quantity of snow.
- The basin of the Guadiana, which has principal tributaries:
- The basin of the Guadalquivir with only Шаблон:Convert in Extremadura (2.45% of total).
- The basin of the Douro (Шаблон:Lang-es) with only Шаблон:Convert in Extremadura (0.04% of its basin).
Climate
The climate of Extremadura is hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa in the Köppen climate classification). Extremadura generally presents average annual temperatures somewhat warmer than most of the Iberian Peninsula, featuring nonetheless a north–south gradient.Шаблон:Sfn Annual thermal amplitude generally ranges from 16 to 19°C.Шаблон:Sfn Average annual precipitation stands at around 600 mm.Шаблон:Sfn Parts of the Sistema Central presents more than 1,500 mm while it barely rains 400 mm in parts of the province of Badajoz.Шаблон:Sfn Summers are very hot and dry, with the rain concentrated in the cold months instead, leading to a high degree of water stress during the summer months.Шаблон:Sfn
History
During the time of the Roman Empire, the area that is known today as Autonomous Community of Extremadura was part of Lusitania, a Roman province that included most of current day Portugal (except for the northern area today known as Norte Region) and the central western portion of the current day Spain. Mérida (now capital of Extremadura) became the capital of the Roman province of Lusitania, and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.
Like the bulk of the Iberian Peninsula, the territory was conquered by the Umayyads in the early 8th century. As part of the Emirate and later Caliphate of Córdoba, it largely constituted a territorial subdivision (kūra) of the former polities centered on Mérida. Following the collapse of the Caliphate in the early 11th century during the so-called Fitna of al-Andalus and its ensuing fragmentation into ephemeral statelets (taifas), the bulk of the territory of current day Extremadura became part of the (First) Taifa of Badajoz (Baṭalyaws), centered around the namesake city and founded by Sapur, a saqaliba previously freed by Al-Hakam II.Шаблон:Sfn
Conversely, the kingdoms of León, Castile and Portugal (most notably the first one) made advances in the 11th and 12th centuries across the territory (with for example the successive Leonese conquests of Coria in 1079Шаблон:Sfn and 1142,Шаблон:Sfn the Portuguese attempts at expanding across the Guadiana basin in the second half of the 12th century,Шаблон:Sfn or the Castilian founding of Plasencia in 1186)Шаблон:Sfn not free from setbacks either caused by the Almoravid and Almohad impetus, which also entailed the demise of the first and second taifa of Badajoz in 1094 and 1150,Шаблон:Sfn respectively. In the Almohad case, their 1174 offensive removed Leonese control from every fortress south of the Tagus (including Cáceres).Шаблон:Sfn After the Almohad disaster at the 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, the remaining part of current-day Extremadura under Muslim control fell to the troops led by Alfonso IX of León—Alcántara (1214),Шаблон:Sfn Cáceres (1227–1229),Шаблон:Sfn Mérida (1230),Шаблон:Sfn Badajoz (1230)Шаблон:Sfn—and later to the military orders of Santiago and Alcántara—Trujillo (1232),Шаблон:Sfn Medellín (1234)Шаблон:Sfn—on behalf of Ferdinand III of Castile. The last fortresses in the Lower Extremadura were conquered by Christians by 1248.Шаблон:Sfn
By the late Middle Ages, the territory of the current-day region consisted of mayorazgos of the military orders of Santiago and Alcántara (about half the territory), nobiliary lordships (about a quarter of the territory) and royal demesne towns (the other quarter of the territory).Шаблон:Sfn
In between the 15th and 16th centuries, the concept of the Leonese and Castilian extremaduras diluted and the name eventually came to refer to the territory of the current-day region.Шаблон:Sfn The territory lacked nonetheless shared government and administration institutions.Шаблон:Sfn
In between 1570 and 1572, the Crown forcibly relocated about 11,000 moriscos into the territory as part of the deportation of Granadans that followed the defeat of the Alpujarras revolt.Шаблон:Sfn The distribution was somewhat chaotic although some places with an already "threatening" population of old moriscos (such as Hornachos, Magacela and Benquerencia) were avoided as resettlement locations for the Granadan moriscos.Шаблон:Sfn
Two generations later, the expulsion of the moriscos from the region began in 1609, starting with the moriscos of Hornachos, the first expulsion in the Crown of Castile.Шаблон:Sfn By September 1610 about two thirds of the moriscos of Extremadura had been already expelled and by 1611 the number amounted to 12,776.Шаблон:Sfn Those who avoided the early orders of expulsion abided to reports of being 'good Christians' or claimed a status as 'old moriscos'.Шаблон:Sfn At the height of 1612, there were reports of remaining moriscos in Trujillo, Mérida and Plasencia.Шаблон:Sfn
Located in the most able path from the Meseta Central to Portugal, the territory suffered greatly due to warfare from the 1640–1668 Portuguese Restoration War,Шаблон:Sfn characterised not by the movement of large armies but for pillage, skirmishes, raids, and destruction of economic resources and settlements across both sides of the Raya.Шаблон:Sfn The growing role of the fortified place of Badajoz (halfway between Lisbon and Madrid), in the wake of the installment of the Captaincy General of Extremadura consolidated the clout of the military in the region.Шаблон:Sfn
By the late 18th century, the Extremaduran countryside languished, experiencing a deep crisis.Шаблон:Sfn There was a diminishing share of land dedicated to crops.Шаблон:Sfn The growing cattle sector induced the creation of yet more pastures,Шаблон:Sfn adding up to the structural problem stemmed from the extraordinary degree of concentration of land ownership.Шаблон:Sfn By the end of the Ancien Régime, the clergy, municipal councils and the royal army mattered more than the lesser role of the entitled nobility.Шаблон:Sfn
Railways were developed in the second half of the 19th century. In September 1863, a passenger train arrived to Badajoz from Elvas, Portugal. It was the first train in the region and the first international service in the Iberian Peninsula.[4]Шаблон:Sfn In 1866, the Шаблон:Ill was completed, enabling the link with Madrid.Шаблон:Sfn The Madrid–Valencia de Alcántara line, a new connection passing through the province of Cáceres, was fully completed in 1881.Шаблон:Sfn
During the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War, the Nationalist faction Columna Madrid advanced quickly across the province of Badajoz in August 1936 and left merciless repression and mass casualties behind.Шаблон:Sfn Badajoz was the Spanish province where the Francoist repression comparatively took the highest relative toll of victims during the war and the immediate Post-War period; there were around 12,000 executions in the province (out of the 14,000 in the whole region), compared to around 1,600 victims of the Republican repression.Шаблон:Sfn
In the mid 20th century, the Francoist dictatorship pursued a policy of colonization and agrarian reform in the region to foster the economy, transforming thousands of hectares of dryland crops into irrigated lands, also favouring the erection of 63 new settlements by the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (INC).[5] The second half of the 20th century saw a massive rural flight out of the region, both to the industrialised areas of Spain (already started in 1955) as well as to richer European countries (such as Germany, France and Switzerland), both of which notably intensified after 1961, in the wake of the 1959 Stabilization Plan (and in the second case also after bilateral agreements reached with destination countries).Шаблон:Sfn The region henceforth was handed a demographic blow in the ensuing years, with the effective expulsion of nearly a 40% of the population, particularly young people.Шаблон:Sfn
A pre-autonomous government entity in Extremadura (the "Junta Regional de Extremadura") with jurisdiction over the provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres was created by means of a 1978 law.Шаблон:Sfn The draft of the regional Statute of Autonomy began in 1980, the first step toward Extremadura becoming one of the Spanish autonomous communities.Шаблон:Sfn The text passed its final hurdle as it was enshrined as Organic Law in 1982.Шаблон:Sfn The first election to the Assembly of Extremadura took place in May 1983.
Government and administration
Autonomous
The Statute of Autonomy of Extremadura (enacted in 1983) is the fundamental organic law regulating the autonomous government, and it establishes the institutions through which the autonomous community exerts its powers:[6]
- Assembly of Extremadura. The following are some of the functions conferred to the legislature: exerting legislative power in the autonomous community, the promotion and control of the Junta of Extremadura, the passing of the regional budget, the designation of senators correspondent to the autonomous community or the control of the media dependent on the regional government.[6] Its members (currently 65) are directly elected through the means of proportional representation and close party lists with an electoral threshold of 5% (the most benign between the total voting percentage and the voting percentage in a particular electoral district) in two electoral districts: Badajoz and Cáceres, corresponding to the two provinces of the region.
- Junta of Extremadura. It is the collegiate body comprised by the regional president, the vice-president and the ministers (consejeros) exerting the executive and administrative functions of the regional government.[6]
- President of the Junta of Extremadura. The officeholder is charged with directing and coordinating the action of the Junta of Extremadura, being the highest representative of Extremadura while also holding the ordinary representation of the State in the region. The regional president is elected by the legislature from among its members, needing to command an absolute majority of votes in the first round of investiture or a simple majority of positive votes in successive rounds. The president personally selects the ministers of the Junta.[6]
Provincial
The government body for each of the provinces is the deputation (diputación): the Provincial Deputation of Badajoz and the Provincial Deputation of Cáceres. The members of the plenary of the deputation are indirectly elected from among the municipal councillors based on the results of the municipal elections. In turn, the plenary elects the president of the deputation from among its members.
Economy
The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the autonomous community was 20.0 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 1.7% of Spanish economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 20,100 euros or 67% of the EU27 average in the same year. Extremadura was the community with the second lowest GDP per capita in Spain before Melilla.[7]
Export goods (mostly consisting of food and semimanufactures) are primarily sent to the European market, but there has been a growing share of non-EU export destinations throughout the 2010s.[8] Balance of trade is generally positive.[8]
The unemployment rate stood at 17.3% in 2022, significantly lower than the previous ten years.[9]
Agriculture
Wild Black Iberian pigs roam in the area and consume acorns from oak groves. These pigs are caught and used for the cured ham dish jamón ibérico. The higher the percentage of acorns eaten by the pigs, the more valuable the ham. For example, jamón ibérico from pigs whose diet consists of 90% acorns or more can be sold for more than twice as much as ham whose pigs ate on average less than 70% acorns.Шаблон:Citation needed In the US, jamón ibérico directly from Extremadura, with bone, was illegal until around 2005. At that time, enough US restaurants were in demand for the delicacy that Spain decided to export it as boneless, which the US Department of Agriculture's health codes would approve (and continue to do).Шаблон:Citation needed
85 Extremaduran municipalities constitute the jurisdiction of the "Dehesa de Extremadura" Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), which protects jamones and paletas (hind and front pig legs) originated from Iberian pigs and mixed Iberian/Duroc-Jersey pigs.[10]
As of 2021, Extremadura produces about 98% of the tobacco produced in Spain, also being the leading European producing region.[11] Tobacco production concentrates in La Vera and Campo Arañuelo.[11]
Tomato production (2,122,000 tonnes in 2017) primarily concentrates in the riverbanks of the Guadiana and the Alagón-Árrago.[12]
A large part of the region falls within the scope of the Ribera del Guadiana PDO, which is further divided in the Ribera Alta, Tierra de Barros, Matanegra, Ribera Baja, Montánchez, and Cañamero wine subregions.Шаблон:Sfn The PDO protects the wines made of several varieties of black and white grapes..Шаблон:Sfn
As of 2021, Extremadura is the second largest rice producing region in Spain, after Andalusia.[13] Due to drought and high water demands from rice fields, non-irrigated rice fields have been favoured since the late 2010s.[14][13] Together with Murcia, Extremadura is a major producer of paprika, primarily destined to the Spanish market.[15] Peppers are grown in the Шаблон:Ill, consisting of the comarcas of La Vera, Campo Arañuelo, Valle del Ambroz and Valle del Alagón.[15] The PDO produced 3,860 tonnes in 2020.[15]
Energy
About half the value of the regional industrial production belongs to the energy sector.[16] Extremadura presents a huge energy surplus, producing about four times the energy it consumes.[16] This situation has led to the characterization of Extremadura as a potential "colony" of the private electricity companies, which are not taxed in the region and employ a relatively low share of the industrial workforce.[16] The Tagus is dammed in the reservoirs of Alcántara, Torrejón and Valdecañas whereas the Guadiana is dammed in the reservoirs of Cíjara, Puerto Peña, Orellana and Zújar.Шаблон:Sfn Due to the orographic conditions, the Tagus is better suited for hydroelectric use than the Guadiana.Шаблон:Sfn As of 2021, the region has around 2,193.84 MW of installed hydroelectric power, primarily controlled by Endesa and Iberdrola, with a lesser role of Grupo Pitarch.[16]
The two reactors of the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant (which were put in operation in 1981 and 1983, respectively) are jointly operated by Endesa, Iberdrola and Naturgy.[16] They generate a power of 1,048.43 MW and 1,044.45 MW.[17]
The region is at the forefront of Spain's plans for energy transition and a decarbonisation, thanks to the installation of large solar power plants and the granting of lithium mining licenses.[18] Such prospects sparked criticism and concern regarding how to avoid a "third energy colonisation" after those of the construction of reservoirs for hydroelectric use and the building of nuclear power plants.[18] Two of the largest photovoltaic power plants in Europe are located in the region: Francisco Pizarro (590 MW) in Torrecillas de la Tiesa and Núñez de Balboa (500 MW) in Usagre; both are operated by Iberdrola, which is developing another 6 photovoltaic plants collectively amounting to 1,300 MW.[17] The first solar thermal power plant in the region, Alvarado I, (50 MW) opened in 2009.[19]
A project to build a lithium-ion battery factory participated by Envision in Navalmoral de la Mata was announced in June 2022.[20]
Population
As of January 1, 2012, the population of Extremadura is 1,109,367 inhabitants, representing 2.36% of the Spanish population (46,745,807).
The population density is very low—Шаблон:Convert—compared to Spain as a whole.
The urban network is dominated by three municipalities between 50,000 and 200,000 inhabitants (Badajoz, Cáceres and Mérida), followed by Plasencia, the Don Benito-Villanueva de la Serena conurbation and Almendralejo.[8] Other municipalities with a population above 10,000 inhabitants include Zafra, Montijo, Villafranca de los Barros, Navalmoral de la Mata and Coria.[8]
The most populous province is that of Badajoz, with a population of 691,715 and a population density of Шаблон:Convert. With an area of Шаблон:Convert, it is the largest province in Spain. 413,766 people live in the province of Cáceres at a density of Шаблон:Convert, having an area of Шаблон:Convert, making it the largest province in Spain after Badajoz. Шаблон:Largest cities
Foreign
| Nationality | Population |
|---|---|
| Шаблон:Flag | 8,173 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 7,400 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 3,188 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 1,655 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 1,555 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 1,529 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 972 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 420 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 752 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 509 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 450 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 432 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 412 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 408 |
| Шаблон:Flag | 399 |
As of 2020, overall foreign population growth stood at 319% year over year, and the largest foreign community is that of Romanian nationals with 8,173 people, followed by Moroccans with 7,400. Brazilians account for 3,188, Chinese for 1,655 and Colombians make up 1,409. There are 23 Liechtensteiners, 1723 Dutch nationals, and 147 Senegalese. There are also 3,188 Portuguese people living within the region. The region had a foreign population of 34,667.[21]
Historical
Шаблон:Historical populations The Extremaduran population, according to the 1591 census of the provinces of the Kingdom of Castile, was around 540,000 people, making up 8% of the total population of Spain. No other census was performed until 1717, when 326,358 people were counted as living in Extremadura.
From this period, the population grew steadily until the 1960s (1,379,072 people in 1960).[22] After 1960, emigration to more prosperous regions of Spain and Europe drained the population.
Administrative divisions
Extremadura is divided into 383 municipalities. 164 are part of the Province of Badajoz and the other 219 are part of the Province of Cáceres.
There are also traditional comarcas in Extremadura, like Las Villuercas and Las Hurdes, but these do not have much official recognition.
Languages
The only official language is Spanish (whose local dialects are collectively called Castúo), but other languages and dialects are also spoken. The Fala, a Galician-Portuguese language, is a specially protected language and is spoken in the valley of Jálama. The Extremaduran language, the collective name for a group of vernacular dialects related to Leonese[23] is endangered. Local variants of Portuguese are native to Cedillo and Herrera de Alcántara.[24] Portuguese has also been accounted to be spoken as well by some people (mainly those born before the 1940s[25]) in Olivenza.
Reported phonological distinctive features of the Spanish dialectal variants spoken in the region include instances of Шаблон:Lang (in some areas of the province of Badajoz), loss of intervocalic /d/, j and word-initial h aspiration, r → l substitution, and Шаблон:Lang.Шаблон:Sfn
Sports
- In football:
- Extremadura UD
- Extremadura Femenino CF, also known as CF Puebla Extremadura, the women's team
- CF Extremadura, founded in 1924 but folded in 2010
- AD Mérida
- CD Badajoz
- CD Don Benito
See also
- Extremaduran cuisine
- Extremadura (Vino de la Tierra)
- List of presidents of the Extremaduran Assembly
- New Extremadura
References
- Citations
- Bibliography
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External links
- Extremadura, Spain - Google Maps
- Шаблон:Cite EB1911
- Spanish regions: Extremadura traditional clothing
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