Puerto Lope

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Puerto Lope (commonly called El Puerto) is a town belonging to the municipality of Moclin, Province of Granada, Spain. It is located in the eastern part of the Loja region. Six kilometers from the border with the province of Jaén, near this town are the core of Tiena, Tózar and Íllora.

This district is the bigger core of population of all the municipality and is where the most number of towns is located. Its name comes from his owner Lope de Leon.

History

Population constituted since Roman times, it acquires importance during the period of Muslim occupation where it becomes a free trade port due to its strategic location of passage between [[Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castilla) and the Crown of Castilla.

During de modern age the most of the lands of Puerto Lope were owner of the family of León o Ponce de León. The “oidor” Lope de León will acquire up to 1,600 fanegas of land from the Ponce de Ocampo and the Gadea on which it will be founded to this he will add the jurisdiction of the town, which he bought from the Crown in 1559, becoming the first lord of Puerto Lope. The lordship will continue in this family until Don Juan Ponce de León Bobadilla as early as the eighteenth century, but with his death he will pass to the Velluti until the extinction of the manors.

At the time of the French occupation it is burned and destroyed by its resistance to the enemy and later it is repopulated by native people of Asturias - hence the surname Argüelles, common in the area

Localization

This parish church of Moclín It is one of the cores(nucleuses) with major population of the municipal area. It is located in the road N-432, between(among) Granada and Cordova, and in we can find the Industrial estate The Trumpets, as well as great quantity of places of leisure

Geography

Moclín is placed to the northwest of the province of Granada, nailed in the Region of the Mounts, integrated to the most western part of the mountainous chains of the subAndalusian way. It(he,she) occupies a surface of 112.7 km2 and shelters seven cores(nucleuses) of population: Gumiel, Lemons, Moclín, Olive groves, Port Lope, Tózar and Tiena.

Climate

The rainfalls of 450 Km2, the everage temperature and the thermal extent of 16 º to 20 º respectively, the altitude, the orientation and the soil have defined three essential elements of the landscape, composed by hills and marly covered(overcast) hills of olive trees, hondanadas with clayey soils occupied by calmness cerealistas and limy degraded and removed the flesh summits. The river Velillos, which flows from lands of Jaen, waters with his(her,your) small flow(wealth) the fertile fertile plaines that spread symmetrically from north to south, along all his(her,your) course(year). The vegetation is composed by degraded Mediterranean forest, with spots of groves of evergreen oaks, on limy area. In the margins of the river the typical vegetation appears rebereña, especially in the slits of the sickle, where this one appears with enough exhuberancia, giving him(her) close to the limy forms of the relief a great vistosidad.

See furthermore

• N-432, entre Granada y Alcalá la Real.
• Torre atalaya de Mingoandrés.
• Atalaya de la Mesa.
• Torre de la Gallina.

External links

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