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The municipality of Algarrobo (6,144 inhabitants in 2008; 970 ha) is located on the Costa del Sol (Sun Coast), 40 km east of Málaga. The village of Algarrobo, administrative center of the municipality is located 4 km off the coast; the other settlements in the municipality are Algarrobo Costa (on the sea shore), Mezquitilla and Trayamar.
The village of Algarrobo, of Moorish origin, was transferred in 1487 to Pedro Enriquez, whose descendants sold it in 1519 to Pedro Fernández de Córdoba, Marquis of Camares, whose family ruled it until the abolition of the feudal system in 1811. The Phoenician necropolis of Trayamar (7th century BP), excavated in the 1960s by the German Institute of Archeology of Madrid, is the most important Phoenician funerary complex in the western Mediterranean basin. Jewels and other artefacts found in the stone tombs are kept in the Provincial Archeological Museum of Málaga.
Source: Tourist Board of the Costa del Sol
Ivan Sache, 29 Jun 2009
The flag of Algarrobo was approved by the Municipal Council on 11 March 2009 and submitted on 12 March 2009 to the General Directorate of Local Administration, which confirmed it by Decree on 7 April 2009, published in the Andalusian official gazette (BoletÃn Oficial de la Junta de AndalucÃa, BOJA) No. 77 on 23 April 2009.
The relevant parts of the Decree are the following:
Flag: Panel in proportions 2/3, divided in three vertical creneled stripes, white, blue and white, the central stripe with proportions 2/4 compared with the stripes at hoist and fly with proportions 1/4. In the middle of the blue stripe a white carob tree.
The flag should be registered on the Andalusian Register of Local Entities, with its official written description and graphics (as originally submitted, but unfortunately not apprended to the Decree).
Source: BOJA, No. 77, pp. 43, 23 Apr 2009
The carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua L.) is canting for the name of the town, the tree being called "algarrobo" in Spanish, from Arabic "al kharâb."
Ivan Sache, 29 Jun 2009