Campiña de Jerez
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| settlement_type = Comarca
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| image_caption = Campiña de Jerez
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| subdivision_type = Country
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| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community
| subdivision_name1 = Andalusia
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Cádiz
| seat_type = Capital
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| p1 = Jerez de la Frontera, San José del Valle
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| area_total_km2 = 1412
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| population_total = 217,717
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| blank_name_sec1 = Largest municipality
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Campiña de Jerez (the Jerez countryside) is a comarca (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Cádiz, southern Spain.
The present-day comarca was established in 2003 by the Government of Andalusia.{{cite web |date=27 March 2003 |title=Orden de 14 de marzo de 2003, por la que se aprueba el mapa de comarcas de Andalucía a efectos de la planificación de la oferta turística y deportiva, Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía |url=https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/2003/59/1 |access-date=8 September 2024 |website=www.juntadeandalucia.es}}{{Cite web |date=7 May 2003 |title=CORRECCION de errores de la Orden de 14 de marzo de 2003, por la que se aprueba el mapa de comarcas de Andalucía a efectos de la planificación de la oferta turística y deportiva (BOJA núm. 59, de 27.3.2003). |url=https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/boja/2003/85/1 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=www.juntadeandalucia.es}}
Municipalities
The Campiña de Jerez comarca consists of the municipalities of Jerez de la Frontera and San José del Valle.
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!Arms !Area (km2) !Population (2023){{Cite web |title=Cádiz: Population by municipality and sex. (2864) |url=https://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Tabla.htm?t=2864&L=1 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=INE}} !Density (/km2) |
| File:Escudo_de_Jerez_de_la_Frontera.svg
|1,188.23 |213,231 |179.45 |
| File:Escudo_de_San_José_del_Valle.svg
|224.01 |4,486 |20.03 |
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|1,412.24 |217,717 |199.48 |
Economy
Together with the comarcas Bahía de Cádiz and Costa Noroeste, Campiña de Jerez form the Sherry Triangle, a region of sherry wine production. It is an important economic asset for the region, with a long tradition of British-Spanish winemaking families who export it to the United Kingdom and other european countries.{{Cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Isambard |date=2020-09-27 |title=The Sherry Triangle, a corner of Spain that is for ever England |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/the-sherry-triangle-a-corner-of-spain-that-is-for-ever-england-vt9mbh5mj |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=The Times}}
Gallery
File:CampinaJerez.jpg|View of countryside from Jerez de la Frontera
File:SanJoseDelValle-P1060370.JPG|San José del Valle vista
File:Campiña_-_IMG_20180520_144250_356.jpg|Vineyards
File:Campiña-Jerez_DSC01061.JPG|Wind turbines
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070418012438/http://www.jerezrural.com/ Asociación para el Desarrollo Rural de la Campiña de Jerez]
References
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{{Comarcas of Andalusia}}
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