Níjar () is a Spanish municipality in the province of

Almería Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city g ...

Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost 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 "historical nationality". The t ...

. It lies in the eastern part of Almería, in the

Sierra de Alhamilla Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following: Places Mountains and mountain ranges * Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico * Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...

and the south-eastern

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coast, in the Campo de Níjar, near the

Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park ''Cabo de Gata-Níjar'' Natural Park in the southeastern corner of Spain is Andalusia's largest protected coastal area, a wild and isolated landscape. Spain's southeast coast, where the park is situated, is a region in mainland Europe with a h ...

. Níjar covers an area of 599.8 square kilometres, making it one of the most extended municipalities of Spain. Its population of 17,824 (2002) is mainly concentrated in the cities of

Campohermoso Campohermoso () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Boyacá, part of the subregion of the Lengupá Province. Climate Campohermoso has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with th ...

, San Isidro, and Níjar. The main sources of income are agriculture, especially in the growing of greenhouse crops, and tourism, especially the watersports centre of San José.

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- Diputación Provincial de Almería Municipalities in the Province of Almería {{Almería-geo-stub