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  Blas Infante appeared for the first time to the selections of 1918 by the district of Gaucín.  
  IMAGEN DE BLAS INFANTEIn the selections of 1918 the andalucismo appears for the first time, Blas Infante appears by the electoral district of Gaucín, to which its native town belonged, but it retires when seeing as the domination and influence of a cacique annulled any possibility of victory. In June of 1919 it returns to appear again by Gaucín as well as by Seville, within a called candidacy " Democratic Candidacy Andalusian ". Blas Infante raises in the campaign a message only centered in Andalusia and will say: " the Earth of Andalusia is of all the Andalusians whom they love to work it ", in spite of the made effort the candidate anticipated by the caciquil system won that obtained 5,077 votes, Blas Infante obtained a good voting for the circumstances: 1,928 votes, and third candidate only 52.  
       
  There is an oil of the Castle of Gaucín in the Museum of the Prado of D. Jenaro Perez Villaamil of 1849.  
  IMAGEN DEL CUADRO DEL CASTILLO to learn more...  
       
  Last name GAUCIN exists; here you have a few of the U.S.A. with its corresponding directions.  
  ANCESTROS OF GAUCIN    
       
  Exist "The fandango of Gaucín"  
  Its origin is lost at night of the times. It was danced in groups, of men and women of vague number, forming streets in the occasion of some local celebration or some familiar event.
The women solian to take headress. The habitual instruments were the castanets, bandurrias, laúdes, guitars, panderos, mortars, etc.
The rate songs full of force, vividness, merry and simultaneously full of flexibility and charm were.
One danced in the style of the verdiales, raising plus the arms and legs. There were moments at which the pairs were watched fixedly.
The content of the fandango was similar to a satire, where one sang and another one responded.
 
       
  Exist "The Serranas of Gaucín"  
  The rate, music, etc. were similar or a modality of the fandango previously described.  
       
  Gaucín coined its own currency at the Roman time  
  The currencies had a bull, a tree and the name of the city (Vesci) and by reverso, the face of a soldier, a iberian ear and characters.  
       
  D. Luis de Armiñán Pérez Deputy to Cortes by Gaucín was chosen  
  FOTO DE LA VISITA QUE REALIZÓ A GAUCINThe January, 5 of 1921 Luis de Armiñán took possession like Deputy to Cortes by Gaucín.





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  On the 12 of January from 2001 at 23 h. 22 m. 32 s. (UTC) was produced in the term of Gaucín an earthquake with an intensity of 3.1 in the scale of Richter, according to the ANDALUSIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICAL.
Date and hour: 12 of January of 2001; 23 h, 22 m, 32 s (UTC)
Near to: Gaucín, Málaga
Magnitude (Richter) : 3.1
Latitude: 36.56 N
Length: 5.36 W
Depth: 8 km.
Intensity (EMS) : III (weak)
 
     
 
 
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