What is made in Spain?
Where does your lunch come from? The regions of Spain have a rich variety of natural resources, so they produce many raw materials and products. Let's look at the three sectors in Spain.
🌾 Primary sector
Spain is the world's largest producer of olive oil, an important part of the Spanish diet. Jaén is full of olive trees!
Oranges from Valencia, tomatoes and peppers from Almería's greenhouses, bananas from the Canary Islands…
Spain has huge vineyards, and Spanish wine is famous all around the world.
Animals farmed for meat, milk, wool or leather: pigs, cows, sheep and goats.
Spain is one of the biggest fish and seafood producers in Europe, and there are farms for mussels and clams.
Coal, marble and metals are still mined in Spain, but much less than in the past.
🏭 Secondary and 🛎️ tertiary sectors
The largest industry in Spain: factories make drinks, crisps, biscuits, tinned food, cheese and ham.
Spain is one of the top car producers in Europe. There are car factories in Catalonia, Valencia, Navarre, Castilla y León and other regions.
The service sector is the largest in Spain, and tourism is a big part of it. Spain is one of the most visited countries in the world. Rural tourism helps keep villages alive.
Using local raw materials helps the environment: products travel fewer kilometres, so lorries and planes burn less fuel. Look at a product at home: where was it made?
To describe actions that were in progress in the past, use was/were + -ing: The population was increasing, but now it is decreasing. · They were carrying oranges to the factory all day. · We were living in a village, but now we live in a city.