GUADIX

town, Granada provincia, in the comunidad autnoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain, northeast of Granada city. The town originated as the Acci of the Romans; its present name was corrupted from the Arabic Wadi-Ash (River of Life). Outstanding landmarks include the Moorish Alcazaba (fortress); the 18th-century Renaissance and Baroque cathedral built on the site of an old mosque; and the Barrio de Santiago, an adjacent locality famous for its inhabited caves excavated in the mountainsides. The economy is agricultural, based chiefly on wheat, olives, flax, and hemp. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 19,105.