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Almuñecar is a municipality of Granada province, in the south of Spain. It is located in the Tropical Coast region, close to Malaga province, in the Mediterranean Sea shore.

It is an important tourist center, located between the sea and the mountain, as well as an important producer of subtropical fruits like avocados, custard apples, mangos, kiwis, etc.

Almuņecar is crossed by two rivers: the Verde and the Seco.

It also has a rich cultural heritage. Originally, it was a small Phoenician enclave called 'Sexi'. Then, in the VIII century, the muslims called it 'Hins-al-Monacar' (means 'sorrounded by mountains'), and finally, after the Reconquest, it was called Almuñecar.

The history of Almuñecar begins the 1500 B.C., influenced by the culture of the Bronze Age. With the passing of time and the consequent socioeconomic evolution, already at the end of the IX century B.C., the natives received the Phoenician colonization, creating the urban structures of the colony. At the end of the III century B.C., the Romans arrived and found a well structured city, with a mighty economy based on the salt meat of fish and own currency, which they will remodelate with wondeful temples, theaters and aqueducts.

When Abderraman I arrived in the year 755, Almuñecar started to belong to Elvira, according to the administrative division of the Muslim.

After the fall of Baza in 1489, Granada's coast surrendered to the Castilian troops, under the capitulations that were signed in Almuñecar.

The Almuñecar's coat of arms, constituted by the heads of three Barbary pirates who float in the sea, was a gift from the emperor Carlos III.

Almunecar coat of arms
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