What is "barbate"

Barbate \Bar"bate\, a. [L. barbatus, fr. barba beard. See Barb beard.] (Bot.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.
--Gray.

a. (context botany English) bearded; having long thin hairs

adj. having hair on the cheeks and chin [syn: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery]

Barbate is a coastal town located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2006 census, the city has a population of 22,496.

Barbate is situated at the mouth of the River Barbate, some 7 miles (11 kilometres) along the coast to the east of Cape Trafalgar and within the La Breña y Marismas del Barbate Natural Park. The "Tómbolo de Trafalgar", a local point of interest comprises a sandy isthmus joining Cape Trafalgar to the mainland. from the 1930s the town was known as Barbate de Franco because General Francisco Franco spent leisure time there. It ceased to be called this in 1998 after a decree was passed by the Junta de Andalucia. Barbate has a long history of fishing stretching back to Roman times when fish salting was at its peak. The town does not have the charm of many older settlements but it is well designed and has an attractive central square, "Plaza de la Inmaculada", flanked by the Town Hall and the Church of St. Paul. Barbate is popular with Spanish tourists in the summer but attracts few foreign visitors.

The Barbate is a coastal river in southern Spain. It flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Barbate (the town after which it is named) in the province of Cádiz, autonomous community of Andalusia.

The Barbate begins in the northern foothills of the Sierra del Aljibe, at an elevation of above sea level. The upper portion of the river descends rapidly, running through Triassic terrain, and dropping in barely ; after that, the river descends gently over Eocene terrain, losing only in the rest of its course, which after the confluence with the river Alberite flows through Quaternary terrain. Because the river, with a length of over , flows in all but its upper part through relatively flat land, it meanders considerably.

The Barbate and its tributaries drain an area of (17.6 percent of the province of Cádiz). It runs through wide colluvial plains and the magnificent dark clay soils the Spanish call bujeo or the tierras negras andaluzas ("black Andalusian lands"), arriving finally in the desiccated former Janda Lagoon, where the River Almodóvar flows into the Barbate from the left. Other tributaries are the Rocinejo, the Celemín (river), the Álamo and the Fraja.

It then passes Alcalá de los Gazules, Benalup-Casas Viejas, and after passing through the gorge of Barca de Vejer, it passes through the of the Marismas de Barbate, to its mouth at Barbate.

Category:Geography of the Province of Cádiz Category:Rivers of Andalusia