Cordoba Province (Spain)

Córdoba is a province in southern Spain, in the north-central part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It limits with the provinces of Seville, Badajoz, Málaga, Ciudad Real, Jaén, and Granada. Its capital is Cordoba. The government of the province is exercised by the Provincial Council of Córdoba.

Its area is 13,771 km². Its population is 781,451 inhabitants (2021). More than 40% live in the capital, and its demographic density is 56.74 inhab/km².

History

Kingdom of Córdoba in 1590 according to votes in the Courts of Castile

The Royal Decree of November 30, 1833 created the Province of Córdoba, which was formed by uniting the towns of the Kingdom of Córdoba and the following places in Extremadura: Belalcázar, Fuente la Lancha, Hinojosa del Duque and Villanueva del Duque. However, Chillón and its village of Guadalmez, places belonging to the kingdom, became part of the province of Ciudad Real. Likewise, the new province incorporated two enclaves of the Kingdom of Jaén that existed in the kingdom of Córdoba: Belmez (which included Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, segregated in 1886) and Villafranca de Córdoba. Currently, the province is made up of the municipalities that can be seen in the annex Municipalities of the province of Córdoba.

Geography

Relieve de la provincia

The province is divided mainly into three geographical areas: Sierra Morena to the north, the Guadalquivir valley in the center and the Sierras Subbéticas to the south.

Climate

The climate is continental Mediterranean with temperatures that in the capital range between 9.2 °C in January and 27.2 °C in July and August, with highs that sometimes exceed 40 °C. The thermal amplitude is very frequent, especially in summer with a difference of 20 °C between day and night. Rainfall in the province varies between 400 to 600 mm a year, concentrating from October to April.

Pollution

According to Ecologistas en Acción, around a population of 330,000 people have breathed air with levels of polluting substances above the established limits. This would affect the inhabitants of the Córdoba capital area and the Puente Nuevo thermal power plant. The latter was cut off on June 30, 2020 in its commitment to renewable energy.

Protected natural areas

Natural parks

The province has three natural parks:

Peri-urban parks

Places

Reservoir

Natural monuments

Nature reserves

Population

Evolution

Distribution

The province of Córdoba is the 11th in Spain in which there is a higher percentage of inhabitants concentrated in its capital (41.71%, compared to 31.96% for the whole of Spain). In 2012 the province reached its historical maximum population, with 802,719 inhabitants. Since then it has been declining considerably, losing over 20,000 residents in a decade. Among the causes is the aging of the population, a low birth rate and a gradual exile of young people in search of employment, to other areas of Spain or the EU. As of March 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic, the province lost 990 inhabitants (until July 2021). As of January 1, 2021, 781,451 inhabitants were registered.

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  Population by municipality

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  Population density by municipality

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  Population change from 2001 to 2011

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  Variation of population between 2011 and 2021

Immigration

Municipal map of immigrants in the province of Córdoba in 2007

Pyramid of the population of the province of Córdoba in 2008, compared to 1981 (in red).

Evolution of vegetative growth (birth - mortality) in the province of Córdoba

Immigrant population in Córdoba

Country/Zona	Men	Women	Total	% Total Ext.	% Total And.	% Pob.
Germany	94	83	177	0.82%	0.73%	0.02%
Bulgaria	184	128	312	1.44%	3.04%	0.04%
France	170	178	348	1.61%	2.53%	0.04%
Italy	218	129	347	1.60%	2.01%	0.04%
United Kingdom	463	459	922	4.26%	0.93 per cent	0.12%
Romania	3937	2870	6807	31.44%	8.60%	0.85%
European Union	5413	4161	9574	44.22%	3.1 per cent	1.20%
Russia	58	117	175	0.81%	2.02%	0.02%
Ukraine	197	194	391	1.81%	3.75%	0.05%
EUROPE NO EU	494	567	1061	4.90 per cent	3,80%	0.13%
Morocco	1498	882	2380	10.99%	2.57%	0.30%
AFRICA	2316	1049	3365	15.54%	2.80%	0.42%
Argentina	229	224	453	2.09%	1.77%	0.06%
Bolivia	242	359	601	2.78%	2.72%	0.08%
Colombia	530	872	1402	6.48%	6.72%	0.18%
Ecuador	892	1219	2111	9.75 per cent	9.24%	0.26%
Peru	61	92	153	0.71%	3.38%	0.02%
AMERICA	2645	4088	6733	31.10%	4.77%	0.84%
China	336	281	617	2.85%	6.00%	0.08%
ASIA	523	380	903	4.17%	4.91 per cent	0.11%
OTHER	7	7	14	0.06%	4.35%	0.00%
TOTAL	11398	10252	21650	100,00%	3.52%	2.71%

Territorial organization

The province, made up of 77 municipalities, is made up administratively by 7 associations and judicially by 12 judicial districts.

Municipalities

The basic administrative unit into which the province is divided are the municipalities. There are 77 today. The municipality with the most inhabitants is the provincial capital. The province has an enclave within the province of Seville in which the town of Villar is located, belonging to the municipality of Fuente Palmera.

The municipalities of the province of Córdoba ordered by population are the following (according to the municipal register of the INE in 2020):

No. Municipality Population 1. a Cordoba (Capital) 326 039 2. a Lucena 42 733 3. a Genil Bridge 29 943 4. a Montilla 22 739 5. a Priego de Córdoba 22 367 6. a Palma del Río 20 928 7. a Cabra 20 347 8. a Babe 19 045 9. a Pozoblanco 17 204 10. a La Carlota 14 079 11. a Aguilar de la Frontera 13 382 12. a Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo 10 561 13. a Rute 9898 14. a Palmer Source 9766 15. a Fernán-Núñez 9651 16. a Montoro 9293 17. a Villanueva de Córdoba 8671 18. a Almodóvar del Río 7932 19. a Castro del Río 7767 20. a La Rambla 7529 21. a Bujalance 7320 22. a Posadas 7318 23. a Villa del Río 7067 24. a Hinojosa del Duque 6707 25. a New Carteya 5341 26. a Benamejí 4963

No. Municipality Population 27. a Villafranca de Córdoba 4860 28. a Doña Mencía 4615 29. a Santaella 4614 30. a Source Obejuna 4501 31. a Hornachuelos 4480 32. a Montalbán de Córdoba 467 33. a The Carpio 4363 34. a Iznájar 4134 35. a Adamuz 4137 36. a Montemayor 3856 37. a Moriles 3701 38. a Mirror 3289 39. a Belalcázar 3235 40. a Villaviciosa de Córdoba 3200 41. a Luque 2976 42. a Cañete de las Torres 2923 43. a Belmez 2921 44. a Pedro Abad 2815 45. a The Viso 2517 46. a Espiel 2405 47. a Two 2394 48. a Almedinilla 2390 49. a Carcabuey 2371 50. a Victoria 2289 51. a Real oaks 2254 52. a Obejo 2008

No. Municipality Population 53. a Monturque 1943 54. a Guadalcazar 1559 55. a Year 1530 56. a Pedroche 1482 57. a Cardeña 1471 58. a Alcaracejos 1470 59. a Palenciana 1465 60. a Villanueva del Duque 1 448 61. a The Guijarrosa 1379 62. a Source of Roads 1148 63. a Valenzuela 1118 64. a Villaralto 1118 65. a Torrecampo 1040 66. a Villanueva del Rey 1015 67. a San Sebastián de los Ballesteros 804 68. a Santa Eufemia 743 69. a Source-Tójar 666 70. a The Blázquez 664 71. a Zuheros 635 72. a Villaharta 621 73. a The Granjuela 439 74. a Conquest 366 75. a Valsequillo 348 76. a The Guijo 352 77. a Source of Lancha 342

Commonwealths

Community	Extension	Population	Density	Municipalities	Comarcal Map
Alto Guadalquivir	1299 km2	44 127.	33.9 hectares/km2	8
Campiña Este - Guadajoz	725 km2	39 260.	54.1 hectares/km2	5
Campiña Sur Cordobesa	1101.8 km2	104 062 hab.	94.4 hectares/km2	11
Subbetic	1597 km2	123 651 hab.	77,48 ha/km2	14
The Pedroches	3612 km2	56 435.	15.6 hectares/km2	17
Guadiato Valley	2493 km2	32 118 hab.	12,88 hectares/km2	11
Valle Medio del Guadalquivir (Vega)	1691 km2	65 554 hab.	38,76 ha/km2	8

Judicial parties

There are 12 judicial districts in the province:

Symbols

Shield

On a silver field a rampant lion gules (red or purple from the lion crown) since Córdoba was conquered by Fernando III with soldiers from the lion crown. Border composed of the royal arms of the crowns of León and Castilla. At the buzzer, royal crown closed. The mouth of the shield will be that of modern Spanish, that is to say: square and rounded at its base, with 6 units high (from the axis to the tip) for every 5 units wide (from the right flank to the sinister flank).

Flag

Rectangular cloth one and a half times as long, from the stem to the flap, as it is wide; purple color. Centered the shield of the province of Córdoba with its corresponding stamp, with the dimensions of the shield, from the crown of the stamp to the tip, ½ of the total width of the flag, and the rest of the proportions in accordance.

Logo

Logo of Deputation

The logo is made up of a symbol that represents the synthesized figure of a rampant lion in yellow color (Pantone 117), which stands in front of a mass of red color (Pantone 485), which on its right side, due to its In this way, draw the initial of the word Córdoba, together with the legend Diputación de Córdoba with the Trade Gothic Bold 2 font for the word "Diputación" and Trade Gothic Light for "de Córdoba", both in black.

Education

Cordoba University

The University of Córdoba was founded as such in 1972, although it has two centuries of history that support a trajectory that has its roots in the Free University, which operated in the province at the end of the 19th century and has centuries-old studies such as those of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, unique in Andalusia.

Its youth and its average size -the UCO has 21,000 students, just over 1,200 professors and 700 workers- have given it the necessary dynamism to adapt and enter the century XXI as a university with high teaching quality and proven scientific solvency.

The studies at the University of Córdoba range from Humanities and Legal-Social Sciences to Health Sciences and scientific-technical careers, three areas that correspond to its structure in three large campuses: Social Law, integrated in the urban center; that of Health, to the west of the capital, and the Agrifood, Scientific and Technical of Rabanales, in the eastern area. In addition, the UCO has the Belmez Polytechnic School, located sixty kilometers from the Cordoba capital.