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Castellón
Provincia de Castellón (Spanish)
Província de Castelló (Valencian)
Province of Castellón
Coat of arms of Castellón
Map of Spain with Castelló highlighted
Map of Spain with Castelló highlighted
Coordinates: 40°10′N 0°10′W / 40.167°N 0.167°W / 40.167; -0.167Coordinates: 40°10′N 0°10′W / 40.167°N 0.167°W / 40.167; -0.167
CountrySpain
Autonomous communityValencian Community
CapitalCastellón de la Plana
Government
 • PresidentJosep Pasqual Martí García (PSPV-PSOE)
Area
 • Total6,679 km2 (2,579 sq mi)
 • RankRanked 38th
Population
 (2019)
 • Total579,962
 • RankRanked 28th
 • Density87/km2 (220/sq mi)
Demonym(s)castellonenc, -ca (va)
castellonense (es)
Official language(s)Valencian and Spanish
ParliamentCortes Generales
Websitewww.dipcas.es Edit this at Wikidata
Towns with a population greater than 7,000 in the province of Castelló (according to 2005 census)
Towns with a population greater than 7,000 in the province of Castelló (according to 2005 census)

Castellón[a] (officially in Valencian: Castelló)[b] is a province in the northern part of the Valencian Community. It is bordered by the provinces of Valencia to the south, Teruel to the west, Tarragona to the north, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east.[1] The western side of the province is in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area.

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Valencian language

Valencian language

Valencian or Valencian language is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community (Spain), and unofficially in the El Carche comarca in Murcia (Spain), to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan. The Valencian Community's 1982 Statute of Autonomy and the Spanish Constitution officially recognise Valencian as the regional language.

Provinces of Spain

Provinces of Spain

A province in Spain is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities, although their origin dates back to 1833 with a similar predecessor from 1822 and with roots in the Napoleonic division of Spain into 84 prefectures in 1810. In addition to their political function, provinces are commonly used today as geographical references for example to disambiguate small towns whose names occur frequently throughout Spain. There are many other groupings of municipalities that comprise the local government of Spain.

Valencian Community

Valencian Community

The Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants. Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian Peninsula. It borders with Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south, and the Balearic Islands are to its east. The Valencian Community consists of three provinces which are Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.

Province of Valencia

Province of Valencia

Valencia is a province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community. Of the province's over 2.5 million people (2018), one-third live in the capital, Valencia, which is also the capital of the autonomous community and the 3rd biggest city in Spain, with a metropolitan area of 2,522,383 people it is also one of the most populated cities of Southern Europe. There are 265 municipalities in the province.

Province of Teruel

Province of Teruel

Teruel is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain. The capital is Teruel.

Province of Tarragona

Province of Tarragona

Tarragona is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Castellón, Teruel, Zaragoza, Lérida and Barcelona and by the Mediterranean Sea.

Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The Mediterranean has played a central role in the history of Western civilization. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago.

Mountain

Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges.

Sistema Ibérico

Sistema Ibérico

The Iberian System is one of the major systems of mountain ranges in Spain. It consists of a vast and complex area of mostly relatively high and rugged mountain chains and massifs located in the central region of the Iberian Peninsula, but reaching almost the Mediterranean coast in the Valencian Community in the east.

Geography

Castellón's capital is Castellón de la Plana (Valencian: Castelló de la Plana). The province had a population of 579,962 at the start of 2019,[2] 30% of whom were residing in the capital, 60% in its metropolitan area, and 85% along the coastline. As of the 2011 Census, the population had grown to 594,423 people, but has since declined.[3] The province, and in particular its idle large airport, has become a symbol of the wasteful spending prior to the 2008-14 Spanish financial crisis.

It is a bilingual territory whose inhabitants speak both Spanish and the local co-official language Valencian.

Other major cities of the province include Vila-real, Borriana, La Vall d'Uixó and Vinaròs. There are 135 municipalities in Castellón; see List of municipalities in Castellón.

Castellón is the home of Penyagolosa, the highest mountain of the province and the second highest one in the Valencian Community. It is widely considered to be one of the most emblematic Valencian mountains.

The Greenwich Meridian (the Prime Meridian) passes through the province; there are localities with commemorative monuments such as La Pobla Tornesa, Castellón or Almassora (Paseo Marítimo), and in Castellon it intersects the 40th parallel, and the exact point can be visited at the Meridian Park.[4]

Population development

The historical population is given in the following chart:

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Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana, or simply Castellón is the capital city of the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea. The mountain range known as Desert de les Palmes rises inland north of the town.

Valencian language

Valencian language

Valencian or Valencian language is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community (Spain), and unofficially in the El Carche comarca in Murcia (Spain), to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan. The Valencian Community's 1982 Statute of Autonomy and the Spanish Constitution officially recognise Valencian as the regional language.

Castellón–Costa Azahar Airport

Castellón–Costa Azahar Airport

Castellón Airport, is an airport serving the city of Castellón de la Plana, located near Vilanova d'Alcolea, Benlloc and Cabanes in the Valencian Community, Spain.

La Vall d'Uixó

La Vall d'Uixó

La Vall d'Uixó is a town situated in eastern Spain, in the Valencian province of Castelló. La Vall is located 25 km to the south of the province's capital Castelló, 45 km to the north of the community's capital Valencia and 8 km to the Mediterranean Sea, so it is at 118 m above sea level.

Vinaròs

Vinaròs

Vinaròs is a city located in eastern Spain and the capital of the Baix Maestrat in the province of Castelló. It is in the border between the Valencian Country and Catalonia. Vinaròs is a fishing harbour and tourist destination.

List of municipalities in Castellón

List of municipalities in Castellón

This is a list of the 135 municipalities in the province of Castelló in the Valencian Country, Spain, with their populations and the comercas (comerques) in which they are situated.

Penyagolosa

Penyagolosa

Penyagolosa is a mountain in the Alcalatén area, Valencian Community, Spain. Geologically it is part of the Iberian System, located at the eastern end of Iberian Peninsula. Its peak is at 1,813 meters above sea level and is often crowned with snow in the winter.

Valencian Community

Valencian Community

The Valencian Community is an autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants. Its homonymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian Peninsula. It borders with Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Murcia to the south, and the Balearic Islands are to its east. The Valencian Community consists of three provinces which are Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.

Prime meridian (Greenwich)

Prime meridian (Greenwich)

The historic prime meridian or Greenwich meridian is a geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England. The modern IERS Reference Meridian widely used today is based on the Greenwich meridian, but differs slightly from it. This prime meridian was first established by Sir George Airy in 1851, and by 1884, over two-thirds of all ships and tonnage used it as the reference meridian on their charts and maps. In October of that year, at the behest of US President Chester A. Arthur, 41 delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C., United States, for the International Meridian Conference. This conference selected the meridian passing through Greenwich as the world standard prime meridian due to its popularity. However, France abstained from the vote, and French maps continued to use the Paris meridian for several decades. In the 18th century, London lexicographer Malachy Postlethwayt published his African maps showing the "Meridian of London" intersecting the Equator a few degrees west of the later meridian and Accra, Ghana.

Economy

Traditionally, the economy of Castellón has been focused on the production of citrus and vegetables (Nules and Benicarló). Since the 17th century, Castellón has developed an important ceramic and ceramic tile industry (Onda, L'Alcora, Nules, Castellón de la Plana and Vila-real) and nowadays most of the Spanish tile producers are concentrated in the province. Also, furniture (Benicarló and Vinaròs) and chemical industries (Benicarló and Castellón) are present. There is a large oil refinery in Castellón de la Plana.

Traditional industries such as shoe and footwear (La Vall d'Uixó), fishing (Castellón, Vinaròs) and textiles (Vilafranca and Morella), have given way to a service-based economy due to the increasing importance of tourism in the economy of the province.

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Nules

Nules

Nules is a town in eastern Spain, in the province of Castellón. Located 18 km to the south of the province's capital, at 13 m over sea level, it has 13,750 inhabitants, living in Nules Town, Nules Beach and Mascarell.

Benicarló

Benicarló

Benicarló is a city and municipality in the north of the province of Castelló, part of the Valencian Community, in the Mediterranean Coast between the cities of Vinaròs and Peníscola, not too far south from the Ebre River.

Onda, Castellón

Onda, Castellón

Onda is a town in eastern Spain, in the province of Castelló, part of the autonomous community of Valencia. It has 24,859 inhabitants.

L'Alcora

L'Alcora

L'Alcora (Valencian pronunciation: [lalˈkoɾa] is a municipality in the comarca of Alcalatén, Valencian Community, Spain.

Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana

Castellón de la Plana, or simply Castellón is the capital city of the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea. The mountain range known as Desert de les Palmes rises inland north of the town.

Vinaròs

Vinaròs

Vinaròs is a city located in eastern Spain and the capital of the Baix Maestrat in the province of Castelló. It is in the border between the Valencian Country and Catalonia. Vinaròs is a fishing harbour and tourist destination.

La Vall d'Uixó

La Vall d'Uixó

La Vall d'Uixó is a town situated in eastern Spain, in the Valencian province of Castelló. La Vall is located 25 km to the south of the province's capital Castelló, 45 km to the north of the community's capital Valencia and 8 km to the Mediterranean Sea, so it is at 118 m above sea level.

Vilafranca

Vilafranca

Vilafranca is a municipality in the comarca of Ports, in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. Prior to 2022, it was part of a different comarca, l'Alt Maestrat. Its official Spanish language name is Villafranca del Cid.

Morella, Castellón

Morella, Castellón

Morella is an ancient walled city located on a hill-top in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is the capital and administrative centre of the comarca of Els Ports, in the historic Maestrat (Maestrazgo) region.

Tourism

The Province of Castellón has varied landscapes and heritage that supports a growing tourist industry. The largest seaside and beach resorts include Benicàssim, Orpesa, Vinaròs, Borriana, Peníscola, Benicarló, etc. There are opportunities for rural tourism in the interior, as well as monumental towns like Morella, Vilafamés, Sant Mateu, Segorbe, mineral springs at Montanejos, Benassal, Catí, etc.

More than 50% of the hotel beds are concentrated in Peniscola, which is the third most popular tourist destination in the Valencian Community after Benidorm and Valencia.

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Benicàssim

Benicàssim

Benicàssim is a municipality and beach resort located in the province of Castelló, on the Costa del Azahar in Spain. The Desert de les Palmes mountain range further inland shelters the town from the north wind. The name is derived from the Banu Qasim tribe, a segment of the Kutama Berbers that settled the area during the 8th century Moorish conquest of Spain.

Oropesa del Mar

Oropesa del Mar

Oropesa del Mar is a municipality in the comarca of Plana Alta in the Valencian Community, Spain.

Vilafamés

Vilafamés

Vilafamés is a municipality located in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain.

Sant Mateu

Sant Mateu

Sant Mateu is a town and municipality in eastern Spain, in the province of Castellón, part of the autonomous community of Valencia.

Segorbe

Segorbe

Segorbe is a municipality in the mountainous coastal province of Castelló, autonomous community of Valencia, Spain. The former Palace of the Dukes of Medinaceli now houses the city's mayor. Segorbe's bull-running week in September attracts 200,000 visitors each year.

Montanejos

Montanejos

Montanejos is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community. It belongs to the comarca of Alto Mijares. The municipality spans across a total area of 37.80 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 564.

Benassal

Benassal

Benassal is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Maestrat, Castellón, Valencia, Spain.

Catí

Catí

Catí is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Maestrat, Castellón, Valencia, Spain.

Benidorm

Benidorm

Benidorm is a city, town and municipality in the province of Alicante, Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.

Valencia

Valencia

Valencia is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million, constituting one of the major urban areas on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, at the Gulf of Valencia, north of the Albufera lagoon.

Comarques

The province is historically subdivided into the following comarques:

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Comarques of the Valencian Community

Comarques of the Valencian Community

The comarques of the Valencian Community, form an intermediate level of administrative subdivision between municipalities and provinces. They are used as a basis for the provision of local services by the Generalitat Valenciana, but do not have any representative or executive bodies of their own.

Alcalatén

Alcalatén

Alcalatén is a comarca in the province of Castellon, Valencian Community, Spain.

Alt Maestrat

Alt Maestrat

Alt Maestrat is a comarca in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain.

Alto Mijares

Alto Mijares

Alto Mijares is a comarca in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. It is part of the Spanish-speaking area in the Valencian Community.

Alto Palancia

Alto Palancia

Alto Palancia is a comarca in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community (Spain). It is part of the Spanish-speaking area in the Valencian Community.

Baix Maestrat

Baix Maestrat

Baix Maestrat is a coastal comarca located in the north of the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The capital of the comarca is Vinaròs.

Plana Alta

Plana Alta

Plana Alta is a comarca in the province of Castelló in the Valencian Country (Spain). The largest town in the comarca is Castelló de la Plana, which is also the capital and largest town in the province.

Plana Baixa

Plana Baixa

Plana Baixa is a comarca in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain.

Ports (comarca)

Ports (comarca)

Ports is a comarca in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. It mostly overlaps the historical comarca known as Ports de Morella.

Source: "Province of Castellón", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 18th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Castellón.

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Notes
  1. ^ Spanish pronunciation: [kasteˈʎon]
  2. ^ Valencian pronunciation: [kasteˈʎo]
References
  1. ^ "Encyclopedia Britannica". Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
  2. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2019.
  3. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Madrid, 2019.
  4. ^ "Meridian Park | Castelló Turismo". Ajuntament de Castelló Turismo. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
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