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Chipiona

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About Chipiona

Chipiona is a town and municipality positioned at the Atlantic coast inside the province of Cadiz, Spain. According to the 2012 census, the city has a population of 18,849 population, but this quantity will increase greatly for the duration of the summer excursion period. The metropolis covers an area of 33 km². Being in the decrease valley of the River Guadalquivir it is very flat with a most terrestrial top of four metres. It is bordered at the north-west by way of Sanlucar de Barrameda and on the south-east with the aid of the port of Rota. It is the city of start of singer Rocio Jurado and where her frame now rests.

Chipiona is also home to the tallest lighthouse in Spain and the 1/3 tallest lighthouse in Europe. The metropolis is also well known for several types of Moscatel. According to the geographers Strabo and Pomponius Mela, of Ancient Greece and Rome respectively, a lighthouse existed at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River known as Turris Caepionis. This was likely because it changed into constructed at the orders of the Roman Consul Quintus Servilius Caepion or his successors. The lighthouse marked a dangerous vicinity for shipping and the hole of a navigable river, the Guadalquivir. Chipiona takes its call from the Roman Consul Caepion.

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