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Education and Culture Department. Town-Hall of Alzira. Phone: +34 962 400 450
 
  Alzira is a city placed in a region called "La Ribera", in Valencia. This region gets its name due to its formation along the Xúquer river. In fact, we can distinguish between "Ribera Alta" and "Ribera Baixa". The first one placed in the highest part of the river and the second one placed between the shortest territories and the mouth of the river.  
   
  GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION  
   
 

"La Ribera Alta" has an extension of 841.87 Km2 and a total of around 300.000 inhabitants. Alzira is the administrative capital of this region and its territory is bigger than 111' 46 km2. Alzira is limited by Guadasuar, Algemesí and Poliñá in the North side; Tavernes, Benifairó, Simat and Carcaixent in the South; Corbera, Llaurí and Favareta in the East and Benimuslem, Alberic and Massalavés in the West.

Alzira has nowadays 41.083 inhabitants. The city is placed between 14 and 20 m. over the level of the sea and between the meridians 3º10' and 3º23' West longitude and the parallels of North latitude 39º4' and 39º11'.

The nucleus of the city is mostly at the right side of the river and it is formed by a central and modern nucleus (old bed of the rivers Júcar and Barcheta and old suburb of St Augustine); an old part called "La Villa", and "Las Barracas" (old St. Mary's suburb), "la Alquerieta", "la Montañeta", "el Torrechó", "la Garrofera" and "la Barraca de Aguas Vivas".

Orographically, it is worth mentioning the mountains of "Corbera", "la Murta" and "las Agujas", and we can also find the valleys of "la Murta", "la Casella" and "Aguas Vivas" between them, with a maximum highs in the "Tallat Roig" (394m.), "la Creu del Cardenal" (543m.), "les Orelles d'Ase" (592m.) and "la Ratlla" (625m.)

The climate in Alzira is typically Mediterranean, soft and temperate, and normally without extreme temperatures in winter nor in summer. There is not much rain, and if so, they are very irregular, due to the torrential rains that follow a long drought period.
Alzira presents excellent communication links which facilitate the access from any direction.
The motorway from Valencia to Xàtiva comes between the region from North to South, and from there, there is a road to Favareta. There is also railway from Valencia to Almansa. From East to West you can find the road from Tavernes de Valldigna to Lliria passing through Chiva.

  
  SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION  
  Economically, Alzira presents an equilibrium between the three productive factors. The agriculture was until recently the most important activity where we should distinguish the oranges cultivate, from which we have knowledge as an agrocommercial factor in the 16th century. At the end of the 18th century and beginnings of the 19th century, it started to be an intensive cultivate, and others varieties such as the "navel", the "sanguina", the "verna", etc started to appear together to the primitive plantations. In Alzira there are 98.580 acres dedicated to the citric cultivate. This territory is the biggest in the country, and that is why, Alzira is known as "the cradle of the oranges". Apart from the citric, we also have the traditional orchard cultivates. The industry, was spectacularly developed from the 60's as a consequence of the agrarian crisis and it has important factories dedicated to the bird-rearing, ice-creams, paper, cartoon, construction, dyeing, furniture, impression, drinks productions, as well as a subsidiary sector of agricultural production. Finally, the service sector is consequence of the other two, and its parallel development is present in the quantity of banking offices, agencies, concessionaires, civil servants, commences, etc.