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Competa is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. Competa is situated 49 kilometres from Malaga City and 18 kilometres from the coast at Torrox Costa on the Mediterranean coast, at an altitude of 636 metres. It lies within the area of Axarquia, east of Malaga, in the foothills of Mount Maroma in the Sierra Almijara the snow capped range of mountains between Malaga and Granada that stretch down to the warm Mediterranean. On the scenic Route of Sun and Wine. Competa village is surrounded by a 4,000 hectares wide wildlife reserve, the Sierra Almijara, with peaks as high as 2,068 metres. Competa has no documented history until the fifteenth century. Competa appears by name in written records for the first time in 1487, when the corregidor (magistrate) of Vélez, which by then was in the hands of the Christians, urged the population to submit to the new owners. The Moriscos (Moors) of Cómpeta, like most of those in La Axarquía, joined those that had already risen up and established strongholds in Peñón de Frigiliana –a place that was linked in the sixteenth century and ever afterwards to the history of La Axarquía by the part it was to play- until the Christian troops overcame the Moorish resistance on 12 June 1569. The town was practically abandoned and was repopulated by long-time Christians from Puente Genil, Estepa, Baena, Seville and other localities that had already been retaken from the Muslims. The document from the first marriage contracted between established Christians in the town is preserved in the parish church. The year was 1573. The magnificent parish church of La Asuncion, in the main square of Plaza Almijara, was built in the 16th century in Baroque-Mudejar stlye. Competa is best known to many for its locally produced wine, available both dry and sweet, as well as being plentiful and cheap.
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