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Municipality in Valencian Community, Spain
Guardamar del Segura
(
Valencian pronunciation:
[??wa?ða?ma?
ðel
se??u?a]
) or briefly
Guardamar
is a
municipality
of the
province of Alicante
located at the mouth of the
river Segura
in southern
Valencia (autonomous community)
, Spain. It is a Mediterranean resort, with a large pine forest abutting an 11-km-long white sand
beach
.
Historically an area of fishermen and farmers, Guardamar del Segura is the southernmost point where Valencian is spoken. A Phoenician colony, called
Herna
by Roman
geographer
Avienius
in his book
Ora Maritima
was the first settlement near the mouth of Segura river,
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In Spanish, "guardar" means "safekeeping" and "mar" means "sea", and this is another possible basis for its current name.
Guardamar is the southernmost
Catalan
-speaking town and in 1991 41.8% of the town's residents could speak it.
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Guardamar hosts local festivals like
Moros i Cristians
,
L'Encanta
, and
Fogueres de Sant Joan
, which commemorate its history.
Population
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The
INE (Spanish Census)
of 2006 showed that the city had 14,261 residents. By January 2011 this figure had reached 16,863 of which 10,051 were Spanish. The total dropped by 2015 to 15,589. The most prominent nationalities in 2015 were:
Historical population
(1857-2015)
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Year
|
Population
|
Year
|
Population
|
1857
|
2,696
|
1960
|
4,586
|
1887
|
2,549
|
1970
|
4,715
|
1900
|
2,862
|
1981
|
5,708
|
1910
|
2,898
|
1991
|
7,513
|
1920
|
3,067
|
2001
|
9,944
|
1930
|
4,016
|
2004
|
12,215
|
1940
|
4,703
|
2007
|
15,132
|
1950
|
4,704
|
2011
|
16,683
|
|
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2015
|
15,589
|
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Foreign
population
(official data, 2015)
Nationality
|
Percentage
|
United Kingdom
|
8,93
|
Russia
|
3,49
|
Bulgaria
|
2,24
|
Germany
|
2,02
|
Ukraine
|
1,92
|
Morocco
|
1,71
|
Romania
|
1,37
|
China
|
0,84
|
Italy
|
0,76
|
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Government
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Carmen Verdu is the mayor of the city. In the latest
municipal elections
of May 2011, Carmen Verdu of the
People's Party
(
Partido Popular
) won the elections with an
absolute majority
, larger than the one the former major (Maria Elena Albentosa) had, while the opposition (Socialist Party) lost some of their popular support. She is the second woman ever to occupy this position.
At the
2015 local elections
, the political composition on the local council was:
Geography
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Climate
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Climate data for Guardamar del Segura
|
Month
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Year
|
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
|
16
(61)
|
17
(63)
|
19
(66)
|
20
(68)
|
23
(73)
|
27
(81)
|
30
(86)
|
31
(88)
|
28
(82)
|
24
(75)
|
20
(68)
|
17
(63)
|
23
(73)
|
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
|
6
(43)
|
7
(45)
|
8
(46)
|
10
(50)
|
13
(55)
|
16
(61)
|
19
(66)
|
20
(68)
|
18
(64)
|
14
(57)
|
10
(50)
|
7
(45)
|
12
(54)
|
Average
precipitation
mm (inches)
|
25
(1.0)
|
29
(1.1)
|
28
(1.1)
|
34
(1.3)
|
29
(1.1)
|
20
(0.8)
|
7
(0.3)
|
13
(0.5)
|
37
(1.5)
|
67
(2.6)
|
46
(1.8)
|
36
(1.4)
|
371
(14.5)
|
Source: holiday-weather.com
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