Huelva
Huelva is the name of a city and a province in southwestern
Spain, in the autonomous region of
Andalusia. The province borders on
Portugal to the west, the autonomous region of
Extremadura to the north, and the provinces of
Seville to the east and
Cadiz to the south. It is located on the coast of the
Atlantic Ocean. The economy is based on
agriculture
and
mining. The province contains Palos de la Frontera, where
Christopher Columbus sailed out of on his first voyage in
1492, and parts of the Doņana national park.
The city was called Onoba during Roman times. It suffered substantial
damages in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.