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Separated from Africa by the thirteen kilometres of the Straits of Gibraltar, Andalusia is at the western end of the Mediterranean basin, and also occupies a considerable stretch of the Atlantic coastline. It is, moreover, the southern most part of Europe. This extreme position of closing off a sea, opening up an ocean and limiting a continent is perhaps the primary explanation of the region's history.
Since time immemorial people have succumbed to the urge to visit or possess this extreme and uneven land. So many centuries of visit or conquest have used up those resources which Nature is unable to replace, such as forests and minerals. Visitors or invaders have also left many things which Andalusians did not take long in making their own, some of these as important as the Latin and Castilian languages. One example would be to mention the litany of universal Andalusian poets.
In the 87,268 square kilometres that make up Andalusia, each district is distinct from the previous area, and from the region that follows. Distinct in climate, altitude, countryside, almost desert lands and valleys of incredible fecundity, rainfall, variety of cultures and human types.
Dividing Andalusia into two, East and West, the Andalusia of snow and the Andalusia of the Guadalquivir Valley, is little more than a didactic simplification.

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