Chipiona is a town and municipality

Municipality

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 located on the Atlantic coast

Costa de la Luz

The Costa de la Luz is a section of the Andalusian coast in Spain facing the Atlantic; it extends from Tarifa in the south, along the coasts of the Province of Cádiz and the Province of Huelva, to the mouth of the Guadiana River....

 in the province of Cádiz

Cádiz (province)

Cádiz is a province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia, the southernmost part of continental Western Europe....

, Spain

Spain

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. According to the 2009 census

Census

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, the city has a population of 18,583 inhabitants but this amount increases greatly during the summer holiday period. The town covers an area of 33²kilometres. Being in the lower valley of the River Guadalquivir it is very flat with a maximum terrestrial height of 4 metres. It is bordered on the north-west by San Lucar de Barrameda and on the south-east by the port of Rota

Rota

Rota may refer to:* Rota , a list of employees who are working on any given day, week, or month* Rota , a rotating cylinder built into a wall, used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy...

.

It is the town of birth of the late singer Rocío Jurado

Rocío Jurado

María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado , was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain and was nicknamed "La más grande" . Jurado was once married to boxer Pedro Carrasco, with whom she had a daughter, Rocío Carrasco...

 and where her body now rests.

Chipiona is also home to the tallest lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

 in Spain and the third tallest lighthouse in Europe. The town is also well known for several varieties of Moscatel.

Demographics

Source: INE (Spain)

1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
16,200	16,539	16,814	17,127	17,334	17,603	17,730	17,952

External links

• Ayuntamiento de Chipiona
• Chipiona - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía: Chipiona