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In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro.However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on behalf of the Spanish Empire.
The town of Rota is a Spanish municipality located in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Its surface area is 84 km 2 and is bordered by the towns of Chipiona , Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María .
The rugged geography of the south largely limits settlement to rural coastal areas. The western coast is leeward of the trade winds and is the location of Apra Harbor, the capitol Hagåtña, and the tourist center of Tumon. The U.S. Defense Department owns about 29% of the island, [3] under the management of Joint Region Marianas.
The shores of the Bay of Cádiz include the municipalities of Cádiz, San Fernando, Puerto Real, El Puerto de Santa María, and Rota. [1] The bay forms a natural harbour which according to available archaeological evidence has been inhabited since very ancient times. [3] The Bahía de Cádiz Natural Park is located on the shores of the Bay of ...
La Caleta beach, Cádiz. The Costa de la Luz (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkosta ðe la luθ], "Coast of Light") is a section of the Andalusian coast in Spain facing the Atlantic.It extends from Tarifa in the south, along the coasts of the Province of Cádiz and the Province of Huelva, to the mouth of the Guadiana River.
The online navigation company appears to be poking fun at President Donald Trump's executive order to rebrand the body of water bordering the nation's southern coast.
Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota (IATA: ROZ, ICAO: LERT) (Spanish: Base Naval de Rota), is a Spanish-U.S. naval base commanded by a Spanish rear admiral. [2] Located in Rota in the Province of Cádiz , NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military community in Spain , housing U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel.
The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken). The smaller the scale interval (meaning the more detailed the measurement ...