El Puerto de Santa María |El Puerto de Santa María| |—
Municipality —| |Nickname(s): La ciudad de los 100 palacios (The
city of the 100 palaces)| |Motto: Puerto de Menesteo|
|Comarca||Bay of Cádiz| |• Mayor||Enrique Moresco (PP)| |•
Total||159.34 km2 (61.52 sq mi)| |Elevation||0 m (0 ft)| |•
Density||550/km2 ( 1,400/sq mi)| |Time zone||CET (GMT +1)| |•
Summer (DST)||CEST (GMT +2) (UTC)| El Puerto de Santa María
(Spanish: "The Port of Saint Mary", locally known as just El
Puerto) is a municipality located on the banks of the Guadalete
River in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. As of 2009, the city
has a population of c. 88,000, of which some 50,000 live in the
urban center, and the remainder in the surrounding areas. The
town of El Puerto de Santa María is 10 km north east of Cádiz
across the bay of Cádiz and is best known for having been the
port from which Columbus sailed on his second voyage to the
Americas. According to the legend told in the Odyssey of Homer,
after the Trojan War a Greek official named Me