CATE Algeciras
Puerto de Algeciras, 11201 Algeciras, Cádiz · Cádiz
Managed by Ministerio del Interior, Policía Nacional
First reception, not reception proper. CATEs are police-run facilities where people are identified and given first aid on arrival; by law a stay cannot exceed 72 hours. People move on from here into the reception system, into a detention centre, or are released. Their figures must not be added to reception totals.
Temporary attention centre at Algeciras, on the Strait of Gibraltar, serving as a base for receiving people in the hours or days immediately following arrival. A separate CIE detention centre also operates at La Piñera in the same town, the two are different things and should not be conflated.
Source
Iniseg: Centros de Atención Temporal de Extranjeros · news
Part of Spain’s reception and detention system. Figures are described neutrally from the cited source; coordinates marked “approx.” are town-level estimates. Most Spanish reception capacity is delivered through acción concertada in rented, dispersed apartments with no published addresses, we do not map homes. Any allegation against a named organisation is reported as an ongoing proceeding, not an established fact.