a town of Spain, province of Estremadura, 60 miles N. by W. of Cáceres, on the right bank of the river Gata. It is not well built, has narrow crooked streets, three small squares, a fine parish church with a tall spire; a chapel, a large town-house built in 1843, with the lower story

a secular town of Spain, in the province and archbishopric of Valencia. The district lies between those of Llíber and Jávea, and is very irregular and mountainous in surface, especially towards the east, where Mount Mongo stands. Gata is about 60 miles from Alicante, on the right bank of the Jalon, and contains nearly 2000 inhabitants. The surrounding district produces silk, almonds, raisins, figs, olive-oil, carob-fruit, wine, wheat and other cereal grains, maize, and pulse. The chief objects of industry are basket-making, and utensils for the cultivation of the dwarf-palm, which abounds in an indigenous state in this district.

Rio de, a small river of Spain, in the province of Estremadura. It rises near the town of the same name from numerous large springs in the Sierras de Gata, Jalama, Moncayo, &c., which all unite near a mill called the Infernal, on the road which passes between the Piezas de la Moraleja and Perales, afterwards falling into the Arrago, which joins the Alagon about four miles below the town of Casillas.

Sierra de, in Spain, a ridge of mountains between Leon and Estremadura, commencing east at the termination of the Peña Franca, and extending S.S.W. into Portugal, where it unites with the Serra de Estrella. Two branches nearly perpendicular to its axis shoot out from it; one north, forming the watershed between the Aqueda and the Con; and the other south, between the Alagon and the Erjas. The main chain forms part of the watershed between the Tagus and the Duero or Douro. This entire chain is almost wholly composed of granite.

Calvo de, a headland of Spain, in Andalucia, in the province and 22 miles S.E. of Almeria, on the east side of the Gulf of Gata, in Lat. 36° 44' N. and Long. 2° 14' W. In the centre of the promontory of Gata are four hills; and a rocky mass about 80 yards from the beach, formed of crystallized limestone, rises to the height of 215 feet above the sea, and contains a marble quarry in which corundum and agates are found, and large masses of carnelian. Its ancient name was Charidenei Promontorium, the S. point of Hispania Tarraconensis. It lay directly opposite to the mouth of the river Malva in Mauretania. (Ptol. ii. 4, 7.)