Province of Huelva

Huelva (ˈwelβa) is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by Portugal, the provinces of Badajoz, Seville, and Cádiz, and the Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is Huelva. Its area is 10,148 km2. Its population is 483,792 (2005), of whom about 30% live in the capital, and its population density is 47.67/km2. It contains 79 municipalities. The economy is based on agriculture and mining. The famous Rio Tinto mines have been worked since before 1000 BC, and were the major source of copper for the Roman Empire. As an indication of the scope of ancient mining, sixteen million tons of Roman slag have been identified at the Roman mines. British companies resumed large-scale mining in 1873; the district is the namesake of the Rio Tinto Group. The province contains Palos de la Frontera, and Moguer, where Christopher Columbus sailed out of on his first voyage in 1492, and shares the Parque Nacional de Doñana, located mainly in Almonte. Provincial Deputation of Huelva The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:550 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:50 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:10 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:209 text:209,194 bar:1887 from:0 till:240 text:240,067 bar:1900 from:0 till:258 text:258,143 bar:1910 from:0 till:296 text:295,898 bar:1920 from:0 till:332 text:331,527 bar:1930 from:0 till:355 text:355,441 bar:1940 from:0 till:375 text:375,180 bar:1950 from:0 till:370 text:369,722 bar:1960 from:0 till:405 text:404,517 bar:1970 from:0 till:403 text:403,405 bar:1980 from:0 till:419 text:418,584 bar:1990 from:0 till:443 text:443,476 bar:2000 from:0 till:463 text:462,579 bar:2010 from:0 till:520 text:519,895 bar:2020 from:0 till:524 text:524,278 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE" The delayed tourist development of the province has allowed better city planning than in other regions on the Spanish coast.