SPAIN

VALENCIAN COMMUNITY

The Valencian Community is a Spanish autonomous community. Its territory, with capital in Valencia, is located in the east and southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. It is formed by the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, and limits to the north with Catalonia and Aragon, to the west with Castilla-La Mancha and Aragón, and to the south with the Region of Murcia.

The greatest concentration of population occurs around the city of Valencia, whose metropolitan area reaches 1 559 084 inhabitants.

The second largest concentration of the population of the community is the metropolitan area of Alicante-Elche, which has 757 085 inhabitants (2014)

The Valencian Community has 524 kilometers of coastline. The coastline alternates cliffs such as the Sierra de Irta or Villajoyosa with wetlands, marshes and lagoons, such as the Prat de Cabanes-Torreblanca, the Albufera de Valencia and Elche, the La Mata and Torrevieja lagoons, transformed into salt flats, or the marches of Pego and Sagunto. On the Valencian coast there are also large sand and / or gravel sandbars, such as those in the Almenara marsh, the Saler dehesa or the Guardamar del Segura

The Valencian Community, in the field of coastal relief, is characterized mainly by the gulf that occupies the province of Castellón and Valencia, and by Cap Roig, (Cabo Rojo in Spanish) which is where it ends. To the south of the Cap Roig the coasts are very irregular and with many capes not very important, and, to the south of these, is the gulf of Alicante. The Valencian Community is bathed in all its coast by the Mediterranean Sea of the one that receives the name its climate, that in the Valencian Community usually is smooth, mainly in the coast.