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Jerez de la Frontera

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Jerez de la Frontera
Plaza de la Yerba
Plaza de la Yerba
Banner o Jerez de la Frontera
Banner
Coat of airms o Jerez de la Frontera
Coat airms
Location of Jerez de la Frontera within Cádiz province
Location of Jerez de la Frontera within Cádiz province
Jerez de la Frontera is located in Andalusia
Jerez de la Frontera
Jerez de la Frontera
Location in Andalusie
Coordinates: 36°42′N 6°7′W / 36.700°N 6.117°W / 36.700; -6.117
Kintra Spain
Autonomous commonty Andalusie
ProvinceCádiz
ComarcaCampiña de Jerez
Judicial destrictJerez de la Frontera
CommonwalthMunicipios de la Bahía de Cádiz
Govrenment
 • AlcaldeMaría José García-Pelayo Jurado (PP)
Area
 • Total1188.23 km2 (458.78 sq mi)
Elevation
56 m (184 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total208,896
 • Density180/km2 (460/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Jerezanos
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
11401 – 11409
Offeecial leid(s)Spaingie
WebsiteOffeecial wabsteid

Jerez de la Frontera is a municipality in the province o Cádiz in the autonomous community o Andalusie in soothwastren Spain, situatit midway atween the sea an the mountains. As o 2008, the ceety the lairgest ceety in the province, haed 205,364 inhabitants; it is the fift lairgest in Andalusie. It haes become the transportation an communications hub o the province, surpassin even Cadiz, the provincial caipital, in economic activity. Jerez de la Frontera is an aw, in terms o land aurie, the lairgest municipality in the province, an its sprawlin ootlyin auries are a fertile zone for agricultur. There are an aw mony cattle ranches an horse-breedin operations, as well as a warld-renouned wine industry.