The Comarca de Antequera is a comarca (currently with no administrative role) in

Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a ...

, southern

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

. It is located in the area of the Surco Intrabético range, on the boundary with the province of Córdoba. The landscape is largely plain (

Hoya de Antequera The Hoya of Antequera (also Antequera Depression or, in Spanish, ''Depresión de Antequera'', ''Hoya de Antequera'' or ''Vega de Antequera'') is a sedimentary basin located in the northern part of the province of Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. It tak ...

), run by the higher valley of the

Guadalhorce river The Guadalhorce (from Arabic وَادِي (''wādī''), "river" + Latin ''forfex'', "scissors") is the principal river of the Province of Málaga in southern Spain. Its source is in the Sierra de Alhama in the Province of Granada, from which it ...

. The present-day ''comarca'' was established in 2003 by the Government of Andalusia.

Municipalities

The comarca originally included seven municipalities, a further municipality,

Villanueva de la Concepción Villanueva de la Concepción is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalucía in southern Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de Españ ...

, was created by separation from Antequera municipality on 17 March 2009: + a new municipality, created in 2009 from part of Antequera municipality.

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