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Almería Province (Andalusia, Spain)

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[Almería Province (Andalusia, Spain)]
by Jaume Ollé

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Description

Not all the Spanish provinces have oficial flags. 30 provinces have oficial flags and some others unoficial. A little group don't have flags. Almería is in Eastern Andalucia. In the X century the marchant "republic" of Pechina was very important. In the 60s the province was the scenary of many westerns (movies) and spaghetti westerns. Currently some towns in the province have the highest "rent per capita" of Spain (at same level - or higher - of Catalonia and Balearic Islands) due to intensive agriculture. It is divided in 8 districts and 103 Municipalities. The shield was aproved on 29 July 1959. The flag (with the successive shields) flows since the 19 century.

Jaume Ollé, 29 January 1997