The analysis of the scope, boundaries and evolution of a port hinterland is not a very common topic on the ports … inland Spanish territory. With this objective in mind, we set the boundaries of the ports hinterland at high level of detail … using municipal data and the location of the companies generating the trade flows. The port hinterland boundaries suggested …

hinterland. In technical terms, the metropolitan area is a zone of direct city impact in which the relationships are strong and … permanent (functional urban area, internal hinterland zone) whereas the metropolitan region is a zone in which the relationships … are weaker, but the area is under the core city influence (macroregion, external hinterland zone). One of the main debates …