CATE Málaga
Puerto de Málaga, 29001 Málaga · Málaga
Managed by Ministerio del Interior, Policía Nacional (with Cruz Roja humanitarian support) · ~300 places
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 on land ceded by the Port of Málaga, opened on 29 August 2019. Roughly 2,500 m² across five independent modules with an expected capacity of about 300 people. CATEs are police-run first-reception facilities where people are identified and given first aid after arrival; by law a stay cannot exceed 72 hours. They are not part of the reception system proper, people are moved on from here into reception, or into detention.
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.