Mancomunidad de Municipios Marquesado del Zenete

Location of the Mancomunidad del Marquesado del Zenete in the province of Granada.

Relief map of Granada.

The Mancomunidad de Municipios Marquesado del Zenete or Mancomunidad del Marquesado del Zenete ("Mancomunidad of municipalities of the Marquisate of Cenete") is a voluntary grouping (mancomunidad) of municipalities, located in the province of Granada, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. They take their name from the Marquisate of Cenete, the former seigneury (Spanish: señorio) in this area, which in turn takes its name (historically spelled either Zenete or Cenete) from the Arabic sened, meaning the slope that constitutes one side of a mountain range. That refers to the north slope of the Sierra Nevada, where the municipalities are located.^[1]

The objective of the mancomunidad is to promote, stimulate, and rationalize the social and economic development of the municipalities of which it is constituted. It also constitutes a subcomarca within the Comarca of Guadix.

The mancomunidad consists of the following municipalities:

• Albuñán
• Aldeire
• Alquife
• La Calahorra
• Cogollos de Guadix
• Dólar
• Ferreira
• Huéneja
• Jérez del Marquesado
• Lanteira

The Marquisate of Cenete extends north from the ridge line of the Sierra Nevada. In the northeast it reaches to the ridge line of the Sierra de Baza; most of the mancomunidad is the wide valley of the Zalabí; immediatey to its north is the municipality of Valle de Zalabí.

Notes

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2010-02-10 of the equivalent article on the Spanish Wikipedia.

1. ^ Portal Turismo Comarca de Guadix (2007?). "Municipios del Marqusado de Zenete". Archived from the original on 2007-09-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20070908155322/http://www.elaccitano.com/marquesado/index.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-10. "Zenete que indistintamente se verá escrito con 'z' o con 'c', es palabra derivadadel áreabe sened, que significa 'falda, subida, cuesta del monte', por lo que en este caso haría refenecia al declive de Sierra Nevada hacia el norte." 

External links

• Mancomunidad del Marquesado del Zenete, official site