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Topographical map of Cantabria. Numerous authors, including Isidore of Seville, Julio Caro Baroja, Aureliano Fernández Guerra and Adolf Schulten, have explored the etymology of the name Cantabria, yet its origins remain uncertain.
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Mowing meadows in Cantabria. On the Cantabrian coast, dispersed settlements predominate. It is often referred to as Green Spain (a direct translation into English of the Spanish España Verde) because its wet and temperate oceanic climate helps lush pastures and forests thrive, providing a landscape similar to that of Ireland, Great Britain, and the west coast of France.
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
Map of Spain with the province of Cantabria highlighted Coat of arms of Cantabria. Cantabria is one of the sixteen autonomous communities of Spain. It is divided into 102 municipalities, in accordance with the organizations of territories put forth in Article 137 of the 1978 Constitution of Spain:
The Cantabrian Sea [a] is the term used mostly in Spain to describe the coastal sea of the Atlantic Ocean that borders the northern coast of Spain and the southwest side of the Atlantic coast of France, included in the Bay of Biscay.
The Bay of Santander is both a comarca of Cantabria and the largest estuary on the North coast of Spain, with an extension of 22.42 km 2 (9 km long and 5 km wide). Due to the influence of Santander and its metropolitan area, [3] nearly half of the population of the autonomous community of Cantabria is gathered around it, [4] which makes the anthropic pressure on this area of water quite notable.
Castañeda is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2007 census , the city has a population of 1,621 inhabitants. Its capital is Pomaluengo .