Guadalcanal, Seville

Guadalcanal is a village in the province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

Location and population

In 2006 there were 2,970 inhabitants. It has an area of 275 square kilometres and a population density of 10,6 people per km2. It is at an altitude of 662 metres, in a valley between the Sierra del Agua and the Sierra del Viento, in the region of the North Mountains of Seville. Guadalcanal is 80 kilometres north of Seville, it depends to the judicial party of Cazalla de la Sierra

Demographics

Number of inhabitants of the last ten years (according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spanish National Institute of Statistics).

Etymology

The name, etymologically, comes from the Arabic phrase Wadi al-Qanal (وادي القنال), "river of the stalls". Other names were Tereses or Tereja or Canani with the Iberians. Its name was given to the island of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands by Pedro de Ortega Valencia, born in this village.

History

It was reconquered by the Order of Santiago in 1241 from the Moors, then, it belonged to the León's province as well as other parts of Extremadura. In the ecclesiastical matter, it belonged to the Santa María de Tendudia vicary.

It was fortified by means of a now ruined wall which was demolished because the village took part in the Guerra de las Comunidades de Castilla.

In the mid-16th century, the area had some silver mines financed by the Fugger family.

The village suffered crisis in the 19th century. That one finished with the four religious communities resting in the village and as well as other rural communities in Spain it had to face with the massive exodus of their inhabitants to the cities in the 20th century.

External links

• Página web oficial del Ayuntamiento de Guadalcanal
• Guadalcanal - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
• Información de Guadalcanal
• Guadalcanal Cofrade - Página con la actualidad cofrade de Guadalcanal.
• Página web del pintor Fernando Díaz Mirón
• Mirador La Capitana en el término municipal de Guadalcanal
• Vídeos de Guadalcanal