Gata is in the northeast of the Marina Alta region, on a plain at the foot of the south face of Montgó. Its municipal area has approximately 20 square kilometers and borders with Pedreguer, Dénia, Teulada-Moraira, Benissa, Senija and Llíber. The Gata inhabitants According to the 2019 census, there were 6049 people.
The municipality is marked by the course of Gorgos river. At the end of the 30s of the XNUMXth century, after the construction of the the Alcolaies, the population began to spread also on the other side of the river.
The birth of Gata dates back to Islamic times, around the year 1023, when Gata was a Muslim farmhouse linked to the King of Denia, Abu Mujahid. In the year 1075, about 300 inhabitants lived in Gata, who remained at around 60 due to a cholera epidemic. The king of Dénia, to promote this settlement, installed a school of ceramic art. The school became so popular that by 1180 Gata already had about 600 inhabitants.
The boom in commerce came in the XNUMXth century, with the raisin, made from the cultivation of muscat grapes. At that time many riuraus in the municipal term. Even so, in the middle of the same century there was a great emigration of catmen, especially towards America. These years, products made by hand with wicker are also on the rise.
