Huelva is an Andalusian province with some 525,000 inhabitants, encompassing 79 municipalities. The capital alone has more than 30,000 inhabitants, meaning that the Provincial Council plays a key role within the territory. The demographic landscape is diverse: the population is concentrated mainly in the capital, its metropolitan area and along the coast.

The municipalities of the province of Huelva are grouped into administrative division (known as comarcas): Andévalo, Condado de Huelva, Cuenca Minera, Costa Occidental and Sierra de Aracena-Picos de Aroche.
Of the province’s total territory, 30.3% qualifies as protected natural space, with parks as emblematic as the Doñana National Park, the Doñana Nature Reserve, the Río Tinto protected landscape, the Marismas del Odiel Nature Reserve, the Marisma del Río Piedras y Flecha del Rompido Nature Reserve, and the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche Nature Reserve. This percentage is higher than in Andalusia (18.9%) and much higher than in Spain (12.6%)./p>

The service sector, which includes tourism, together with the chemical and manufacturing industries and intensive irrigated agriculture (red fruits) and citrus fruits, as well as Iberian pig farming and fishing (extractive, aquaculture, shellfishing), with mining and mineral processing, are its main economic activities.

Tourism accounts for 9.8% of the province’s GDP (€950 M). In 2019, regulated accommodation within the province welcomed nearly 1.5 million tourists, who made 5.5 million overnight stays.

Huelva is widely known for its sun and beach, sports (golf), nature and rural, ornithological, gastronomic and cultural tourism.