Yecla

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Yecla
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Yecla
Location in Spain.
Coordinates: 38°37′N 1°07′W / 38.617°N 1.117°W / 38.617; -1.117
Country Spain
A. community Murcia
Province Murcia
Comarca Altiplano murciano
Judicial party Yecla
Government
 • Mayor Juan Miguel Benedito Rodríguez
Area
 • Total 607.7 km2 (234.6 sq mi)
Elevation 602 m (1,975 ft)
Population (2010)
 • Total 34,945
 • Density 58/km2 (150/sq mi)
Demonym Yeclanos
Website Official website

Yecla is a town and municipality in eastern Spain, in the extreme north of the autonomous community of Murcia, located 96 km from the capital of the region, Murcia.

The most important mountains of the locality are Sierra de Salinas (1,238 m), Monte Arabí (1,065 m), Sierra de la Magdalena (1,038 m), and others. The chief buildings are a half-ruined citadel, a modern parish church with a pillared Corinthian facade, and a town hall standing in a fine arcaded plaza mayor (square). Yecla has traditionally had a thriving trade in grain, wine, oil, fruit and other agricultural products produced in the surrounding country. Since the second half of the 20th century, furniture making has become a local trade.

Economy

Yecla, with neighboring Jumilla, is one of the primary regions for development of the Murciana and Granadina breeds of dairy goats.[1]

Yecla is also a wine-producing region, another attribute it shares with close-by Jumilla[2]

Twin towns

See also

References

  1. ↑ European Association for Animal Production (1978), "Ruminant production in the dry subtropics: constraints and potentials", EAAP publication (Butterworths) (38): 68, ISBN 978-90-220-0949-9 
  2. ↑ Wine culture

Sources

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press 

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