Valencia capital; Independent community Valencian Community; Spanish and Valencian official language; Total surface Lugar nº 20 10,763 km ²; % of Spain 2.13%; Total population (2005) 2.416.628; % of Spain 5.48%; Lugar density nº 3 224.53 hab. /km ²; Valencian Gentilicio. Located to the east of the Iberian Peninsula, it limits with the Mediterranean Sea the east and the provinces of Castellón and Teruel the north, Cuenca and Albacete to the west and Alicante to the south. 16 benches in the Congress of Deputies and 36 in Valencian Cortes correspond to him. It is the third city in number of inhabitants of Spain. It is located to borders of the Turia river. adC was based like Valentia Edetanorum on year 138, being Roman consul Tenth Gross June. The city in himself has 796,549 (2005) inhabitants, whereas its metropolitan area lodges around 1.632.274 hab. corresponding mostly to the populations of the regions of L'Horta. The beginnings of the city were as loading center and commerce of the Roman empire, and porteriormente with the arrival of the Islamic culture they were created infrastructure multitude to in center facilitate dried and the irrigation of the fields of the surroundings of the city, turning it of an authentic orchard of fields and orchards. Also Valencia, like Toledo, became one of the more important border cities, since a great increase of the commerce between the two ruling cultures in the peninsula even took place, being created institutions dedicated to the commerce and coining own currency. Valencia cannot flee from its history and therefore it is possible to be affirmed that in the city its economic activity moves in these two axes the commerce and agriculture, not forgetting the tourism, since the own city very arranges a varied supply. Like city of great importance, also it emphasizes in other sectors like artisan, industrial, the textile one, etc.