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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.
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.
Spain location map.svg (by NordNordWest). This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: España-Canarias-loc.svg (by Miguillen ).
Santander (UK: / ˌ s æ n t ən ˈ d ɛər,-t æ n-/ SAN-tən-DAIR, -tan-, US: / ˌ s ɑː n t ɑː n ˈ d ɛər / SAHN-tahn-DAIR; [3] [4] Spanish: [santanˈdeɾ]) is the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. It has a population of 172,000 (2017). [5] It is a port city located in the northern coast of the Iberian ...
The port of Santander with the Martillo dock in the foreground and the Naos dock on the left, in front of the Castle, 1867 (photo by J. Laurent).. At the end of the Cantabrian Wars, specifically in 19 B.C., the Romans founded the port of Portus Victoriae, which some authors identify with Santander and others with Santoña.
It was not until the 18th century that the debate about the location and size of Ancient Cantabria was settled in a series of works which described the history of the region such as La Cantabria [31] by the Augustinian father and historian Enrique Flórez de Setién. Concurrent with the resurgence of this interest in the Cantabrians and the ...
Potes is a municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria in Spain. It is the capital of the Comarca of Liébana and is located in the centre of it. It is bordered to the north by Cillorigo de Liébana, to the west by Camaleño, to the south by Vega de Liébana and to the east by Cabezón de Liébana.