El Ejido - Costa de Almería

Welcome!

After having traveled, lived and worked in half of Europe I returned to the starting point.

El Ejido is my land, from the Latin "exitum", exit. Exit to the Mediterranean Sea of a Sierra

of Gádor dominating the horizon

to the north.

El Ejido was, and is still today, a crossroads of roads, people and ideas. Denossed, envied, peculiar. It is the place where you can discover how far the hand of man has changed the concept of agriculture.

WHY THE EJIDO?

Three things you did not know about El Ejido

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A lot of history

For many, El Ejido is a new city without a soul because it has no past. It is not true. There are remains of more than 5000 years that show that this territory was already populated. Murgi, as the Romans called it, was a thriving economic center.

You will be able to know all this first-hand in our intensive courses.

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Economic center

El Ejido is the economic center of the province of Almería, where the main companies in the fruit and vegetable sector are based. Thousands of people work in greenhouses, cooperatives, alhóndgias and other companies related to the sector. The only "Corte Inglés" in the province is not in the capital, but in El Ejido. Why is it?

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Social diversity

One of the hallmarks of El Ejido is its human variability. With people of different origins -more than 90 nationalities- that make up a complex social reality and not always easy to manage, where the different groups are integrated to a greater or lesser extent. El Ejido is a complex society where generalizations should be avoided.

Population

El Ejido has been an independent municipality since 1982. At that time its population was about 26,000 inhabitants. Today more than 80,000.
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Dynamic

Agriculture and all its auxiliary industry and, to a lesser extent, tourism are the strengths of the economy of El Ejido.
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Innovative

In El Ejido there are leading companies, from transportation to genetic research, through packaging or the production of auxiliary insects for a more sustainable agriculture.
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A lot of history

The Ciavieja archaeological site preserves remains of human settlements from more than 5000 years ago. Murgi was the Roman name for El Ejido, the remains of which come to light little by little.
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Extensive

The municipality of El Ejido is made up of several population centers: Almerimar, Balerma, Las Norias, Santa María del Águila, Old Guards, Pampanico, Matagorda, Tarambana, S. Agustín.
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