Cantabria
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Cantabria is placed in Spain. It is bordered on the east by way of the Basque Autonomous Community, at the south with the aid of Castile and Leon, at the west through the Principality of Asturias, and at the north by way of the Cantabrian Sea. Cantabria belongs to Green Spain, the name given to the strip of land between the Bay of Biscay and the Cantabrian Mountains, so called because of its in particular lush plants, because of the moist and slight oceanic weather.
The weather is strongly motivated by means of Atlantic Ocean winds trapped by the mountains; the common annual precipitation is set 1,200 mm. Cantabria has archaeological sites from the Upper Paleolithic period, despite the fact that the primary signs and symptoms of human career date from the Lower Paleolithic. The most big site for cave paintings is that in the cave of Altamira, relationship from about 37,000 BC and at the side of 9 other Cantabrian caves, as World Heritage Sites with the aid of UNESCO.
The present day Province of Cantabria changed into constituted on 28 July 1778 at Puente San Miguel, Reocin. The Organic Law of the Autonomy Statute of Cantabria became authorized on 30 December 1981, giving the vicinity its very own institutions of self-authorities. Numerous authors, such as Isidore of Seville, Julio Caro Baroja, Aureliano Fernandez Guerra and Adolf Schulten, have explored the etymology of the name Cantabria, but its origins continue to be unsure.
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