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Huelvawĕl'vä, city (1990 pop. 141,002), capital of Huelva prov., SW Spain, in Andalusia, on the Odiel River above its junction with the Río Tinto. A busy port with copper, sulfur, and cork exports, it also has fishing, shipbuilding, oil refining, and summer resort industries. A Roman aqueduct supplies the city with water. Nearby La Rábida monastery, where Columbus made his plans, is a summer university.
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Huelva is a city in southwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Huelva in the autonomous region of Andalusia. It is located along the Gulf of Cadiz coast, at the confluence of the Odiel and Tinto rivers. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 145,150 inhabitants. The town is home to Recreativo de Huelva, the oldest football club in Spain. Huelva is notable for being the site of landfall for Hurricane Vince, the only Tropical Cyclone ever to make landfall in Europe.
A maritime town between the rivers Anas and Baetis, it was seated on the estuary of the River Luxia, and on the road from the mouth of the Anas to Augusta Emerita....more »
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- Palos de la Frontera
Palos de la Frontera, town Huelva prov., SW Spain, in Andalusia, on the Tinto River near its mouth. From its port (now silted up), Columbus sailed on his first voyage of discovery (1492), retu...
- Río Tinto
Río Tinto, Ríotinto, or Minas de Ríotinto, town (1990 pop. 5,934), Huelva prov., SW Spain, in the Sierra Morena Mts., in Andalusia. It is the center of the Río Tinto mining region, named for t...
- Andalusia, region, Spain
Andalusia, Span. Andalucía, autonomous region (1990 pop. 7,100,060), 33,675 sq mi (87,218 sq km), S Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Atlantic Ocean. Spain's la...
