Axarquía () is a ''

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'' of

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in southern

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. It is the wedge-shaped area east of Málaga. Its name is traced back to

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(''aš-Šarqiyya'', meaning "the eastern egion). It extends along the coast and inland. Its coastal towns make up the Costa del Sol Oriental - one of the sunniest places in mainland Spain with the average of 320 sunny days a year. The natives of the region are called ''axárquicos''. The ''comarca'' is composed of 31 municipalities, of which the capital is Vélez-Málaga. The Vélez, Algarrobo and Torrox rivers all run through the region. Its highest mountain is La Maroma, highest point of the Sierra de Tejeda,

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. The Axarquía ''comarca'' is also known as Axarquía-Costa del Sol, for it includes the ''Costa del Sol Oriental'' sector of the

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, east of Málaga city made up of Rincón de la Victoria, Vélez-Málaga, Algarrobo,

Torrox : ''For the soil type, see oxisol.'' Torrox is a municipality in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It belongs to the '' comarca'' of Axarquía. It is located in the Costa del Sol The Costa d ...

and

Nerja Nerja () is a municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is part of the comarca of La Axarquía. It is on the country's southern Mediterranean coast, about 50 ...

municipal terms.Fernando Almeida García & Damián López Cano, ''La Costa del Sol Oriental: un conflicto territorial entre el turismo, la agricultura y la urbanización metropolitana''. Baética: Estudios de arte, geografía e historia, ISSN 0212-5099, Nº 25, 2003, pg. 67-80

Etymology

The Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy defines the word "jarquía" (''xarquía'' in

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) as "district or territory located east of a great city and dependent on it" and says that it proceeds from Arabic ''Šarqiyya'', meaning "eastern part" or " eastern." It coincides with the region of Axarquia which lies in the east of Málaga. The Royal Academy, in its spelling of the Spanish Language, 1999 edition, explains that, in old Castilian, consonant fricative phoneme represented the palatal /nowiki>ʃ/nowiki> as in English sh sound, found in words like Axarquía,

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etc.

Municipalities

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Tejeda (La Maroma), 2.068 mAxarquia Comarca Website
Geography of the Province of Málaga Comarcas of Andalusia {{Andalusia-geo-stub

Etymology

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