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Aguilas
Spain, also known as Kingdom of Spain, is one of the oldest inhabited regions on the planet. It is a country which is located in Southern Europe, and politically organized as a parliamentary monarchy. It is the largest sovereign nation of the three nations that make up the Iberian Peninsula. Administratively, Spain is divided into 50 provinces, grouped into 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities with a high degree of autonomy. The name Spain comes from the Latin name Hispania whose capital is Madrid which is also the largest city of the Country.
Aguilas is a municipality and seaport of southeastern Spain, in the province of Murcia. It is situated at the southern end of Murcia's Mediterranean coastline, otherwise known as the Costa Calida, near the border with the Province of Almeria. Its population as of 2005 was around 31,218.
Aguilas known in Roman times as Aguilae and later Aguila, belonged to the community of Bastetania and the province of Tarraconense. Various civilisations settled in Aquilas, including the Alans, the Suebi and the Visigoths. It formed a part of Spanish Carthage until the Arab invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. It has belonged to the Cordoban Caliphate and the Kingdom of Valencia, later coming under Almoravidan control and finally ending up definitively included in the Kingdom of Murcia in the 18th Century.
Aguilas has an area of 253.7 square kilometers, with some 28 kilometers of coastline. It is 105 kilometers from the provincial capital, Murcia. Aquilas is built on the landward side of a small peninsula, between two bays the Puerto Poniente, a good harbour, on the south-west, and the Puerto Levante, which is somewhat dangerous to shipping in rough weather, on the north-east. The town is at the terminus of a railway from Huercal-Overa
Today, the economy of the locality depends principally on summertime tourism by middle-class visitors and the intensive agriculture of greenhouse vegetables. The construction of various luxury residential and hotel complexes is planned, primarily aimed at foreigners and high-worth domestic purchasers. The ubiquity of these new developments in locations designated as protected by the European Union for example, the Regional Park of Cabo Cope-Calnerge, or La Zerrichera, and the foreseeable construction of ancillary golf complexes, has generated much hostility amongst ecological, agricultural and neighbourhood resident groups, although the bulk of citizens of the municipality have accepted the proposals without protest.
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