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Rota, Andalusia. / 36.617°N 6.350°W / 36.617; -6.350. The town of Rota is a Spanish municipality located in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Its surface area is 84 km 2 and is bordered by the towns of Chipiona, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. It is located near the city of Jerez de la Frontera and is 36 ...
Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota ( IATA: ROZ, ICAO: LERT) (Spanish: Base Naval de Rota ), is a Spanish-U.S. naval base commanded by a Spanish rear admiral. [ 2] Located in Rota in the Province of Cádiz, NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military community in Spain, housing U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel.
Before 1998, local telephone calls could be made using only the subscriber's number without the area code, while the trunk code '9' was omitted when calling from outside Spain, e.g.: [1] xx[x] xx xx (within the same province) 9xx xxx xxx (within Spain) +34 xx xxx xxx (outside Spain)
Pictograms of sea turtles in a Rota cave. In 1521, the first European to see Rota was the lookout on Ferdinand Magellan's ship Victoria, Lope Navarro.However, Magellan's armada of three ships did not stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota (in 1524), was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Mariana Islands on ...
Great Circle Mapper: 124 Airports in Spain, reference for airport codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 2006-01-12. "UN Location Codes: Spain (includes IATA codes)". UN/LOCODE 2006-2. UNECE. 2007-04-30.
Andalusia ( UK: / ˌændəˈluːsiə, - ziə /, US: /- ʒ ( i) ə, - ʃ ( i) ə /; [ 5][ 6][ 7] Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] ⓘ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. Andalusia is located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous ...
Rota International Airport covers an area of 800 acres (324 ha) which contains one paved runway (9/27) measuring 6,000 x 150 ft (1,829 x 46 m). [1] For a twelve-month period ending March 31, 2006, the airport had 6,550 aircraft operations, an average of 17 per day: 94% air taxi, 4% general aviation and 2% military. [1]
1 October 1997 - Changed name to “Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Europe and Central, Detachment Rota, Spain (NCTAMS EURCENT Det Rota)” to reflect the broader area of responsibility for the regional command in Naples that then included Europe and Southwest Asia (aka Central).