Palma del Río is a city located in the
province of Córdoba, Spain. According to the 2006 census by the
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, the city has a population of 20,640.
Agriculture
The region was intensively developed agriculturally during Arab rule, with advanced irrigation and water wheels. Some of the orange groves contain trees over 200 years old.
Notable people
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Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (; 1497 – January 3, 1543) was a Portuguese maritime explorer best known for investigations of the west coast of North America, undertaken on behalf of the Spanish Empire. He was the first European to explore presen ...
, a famous explorer of North America, believed to have been born in this town in 1497.
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Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero,
archbishop of Toledo
The Archdiocese of Toledo () is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Spain. .
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El Cordobés
Manuel Benítez Pérez (born 4 May 1936), more commonly known as ''El Cordobés'' (The Cordovan), is a Spanish matador, and actor active in the 1960s who brought an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style to the bullring.
Career
One of the ...
, ''
matador
A bullfighter or matador () is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. ''Torero'' () or ''toureiro'' (), both from Latin ''taurarius'', are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the performers in the activ ...
''.
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Antonio José Sánchez Mazuecos
Antonio José Sánchez Mazuecos (born 2 January 1995), known professionally as Antonio José, is a Spanish singer. He first gained recognition in 2005, after placing second in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Te traigo flo ...
, singer.
See also
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List of municipalities in Córdoba
Córdoba is a province in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 77 municipalities. Spanish census, Córdoba is the 20th largest of the 50 provinces by population, with inhabitants, and the 13th largest by land ...
References
External links
Palma del Río- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain)
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