Sanlúcar de Barrameda

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Image:Sanlucar.jpg Sanlúcar de Barrameda is a Spanish city in the northwestern part of the Cádiz province. Sanlúcar is located at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. Its population is 61,900.

After Sanlúcar de Barrameda was reconquered by King Alfonso X of Castile in 1264, it was again reconstituted in the 13th century, becoming in the 15th and 16th centuries one of the most important ports of the trade which connected the Atlantic with the Mediterranean. Sanlúcar also borders Doñana National Park and is known for its seafood and manzanilla as well as a popular tourist resort with various hotels.

Sanlúcar became a port of reference and departure for various Spanish conquistadors after the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, who on May 30, 1498 left for his third trip from Sanlúcar. Another historical departure was that of Ferdinand Magellan on August 10, 1519, with a fleet of five ships under his command that left Seville and traveled south from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlúcar de Barrameda at the mouth of the rivers, where they remained more than five weeks. Alonso Fernández de Lugo, conqueror of the Canary Islands of La Palma (1492) and Tenerife (1495) and subsequent governor of these islands, was born in Sanlúcar.