{"id":67998,"date":"2026-10-25T22:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=67998"},"modified":"2026-10-25T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:03:17","slug":"the-geography-of-ceuta-and-melilla-and-the-reasons-why-they-are-part-of-spain-analyzed-from-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/10\/25\/the-geography-of-ceuta-and-melilla-and-the-reasons-why-they-are-part-of-spain-analyzed-from-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"The geography of Ceuta and Melilla, and the reasons why they are part of Spain, analyzed from Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Moroccan migratory incursion into Ceuta, there has recently been much discussion regarding the Spanish territories in North Africa.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/08\/03\/what-if-we-extrapolate-to-others-the-idea-that-there-shouldnt-be-spanish-cities-in-africa\/\">What if we extrapolate to others the idea that there shouldn't be Spanish cities in Africa?<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/31\/historical-facts-for-the-uninformed-about-spain-and-the-cities-of-ceuta-and-melilla\/\">Historical facts for the uninformed about Spain and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interest in Ceuta and Melilla has helped shed light on their history<\/strong>, revealing the reasons why they have been part of Spain for centuries\u2014long before the current Kingdom of Morocco was formed in 1956. <strong>This topic also appears to have sparked interest in Argentina<\/strong>, the country from which a highly popular YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UnMundoInmenso\" target=\"_blank\">\"Un Mundo Inmenso,\"<\/a> is produced; its creator has spent years publishing a wide variety of videos centered on geographical curiosities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54326474470_2e4f6edf8a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Their latest video, published on Thursday, October 22, is dedicated to Ceuta and Melilla<\/strong>; it also covers other Spanish possessions in North Africa, analyzing their geography and the reasons why they have long been linked to Spain. <strong>It is a very well-crafted and well-documented video<\/strong>\u2014one that will likely not be well received in Morocco, a country that has spent years laying claim to these two Spanish cities, which have never belonged to it (the video is in Spanish but has an English audio track; you can enable it in the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ceuta y Melilla, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 son espa\u00f1olas?\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHYm72BQEMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@UnMundoInmenso\" target=\"_blank\">Un Mundo Imnenso<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Moroccan migratory incursion into Ceuta, there has recently been much discussion regarding the Spanish territories in North Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23117,19073,10375],"tags":[2081,1653,1654,11462],"class_list":["post-67998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1a-plana-exploring-eng","category-geography","category-history","tag-argentina","tag-ceuta","tag-melilla","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-03 05:00:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}