ASdTorrevieja Information - tourist guide: Demography

Demography
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Torrevieja has a market of homes for second residences of over 100,000
dwellings.

Geographical facts:
Surface area: 30 square kilometres.
Coastline: 20 kilometres.
Green areas: 11 square kilometres of Protected Natural Park and urban green
areas.
Situated between the Sierra Escalona (San Miguel de Salinas), the estuary of the
Segura River (Guardamar del Segura) and the agricultural lands of the Vega Baja.
Temperate climate.
Rainfall below 180 litres per square metre a year.
Population:
Population registered on electoral roll: 81,080 inhabitants.
Nationalities: 144 countries of origen.
Spanish population: 43,661 inhabitants.
Foreign population: 37,419 inhabitants.
Summer population: 650,000 people.
European population: English - 8,500, Germans - 4,500, Scandinavians - 4,200,
Netherlands - 2,500, French - 1,800 and around a thousand each of Italians,
Portuguese, Austrians and Irish.
Non-European community population: 12,000 inhabitants, predominantly citizens of
former Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Torrevieja has a market of homes for second residences of over 100,000
dwellings.
Torrevieja receives more than two million visitors a year.
There are 2,713 hotel beds. The annual average hotel occupation is 75%.