El Rompido

El Rompido is a coastal borough in the municipality of Cartaya which is situated in the province of Huelva in Andalucía. El Rompido was founded sometime in the 16th century. El Rompido is situated in the mouth of the Río Piedras. It has 1,792 inhabitants and is 8 kilometres away from Cartaya which connects to El Rompido via Carretera Forestal de las Cumbres.HistoryEvidence of human settlement in El Rompido dates back to the paleolithic era who inhabited the area around the mouth of the Río Piedras. In 1971, 208 pieces of quartzite thought to date back to the third to ninth millennium were discovered in El Rompido. There are indications that the area was used as a fishing settlement in the Roman era, something the local economy has relied on for decades upon decades until the influx of tourists. Despite this, evidence of settlements in El Rompido during the Islamic presence in Spain from 711 until 1614 have not been found. Tourism, now one of El Rompido's main industries, has slowly been building in the village since the 1960's and there has been a sharp upturn in tourism in the last decade.