Cheste
Cheste (Valencian: Xest) is a city in Spain. It is in the Valencian Community. It is 26 kilometres (16 miles) west of Valencia and about 350 kilometres (220 miles) east of Madrid. It covers 71.4 square kilometres (27.6 square miles). In 2008, 8,127 people lived there according to the National Institute of Statistics census.
Demography
| Population over time[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857 | 1887 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 1996 | 2001 | 2006 | 2007 | ||||
| Population | 4,732 | 5,548 | 6,039 | 5,826 | 6,110 | 5,101 | 5,100 | 5,210 | 5,221 | 5,966 | 7,424 | 6,726 | 6,857 | 7,027 | 7,425 | 7,872 | |||
Economy
Cheste's main industry is agriculture, specifically the vineyards. Cheste is also known for the MotoGP's Circuit Ricardo Tormo, built in 1999.
References
- ↑ Source: Población de hecho según el Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España (Population de facto according the INE census). Alteraciones de los municipios en los Censos de Población desde 1842, Series de población de los municipios de España desde 1996. (in Spanish)
Other websites
- Cheste's city hall website (in Spanish)