The first rugrat of the year in Andalucia was born at eight minutes past midnight in the Hospital Poniente in El Ejido, Almería.
The baby weighed in at 3,770 grams and measured 50 centimetres. The mother is a resident of San Agustín in. El Ejido.
Second to arrive was Alberto, born at 00:10 at a hospital in Puerto Real, Cádiz. In third place was a girl born at 00:35 in the Complejo Hospitalario Materno Infantil in Jaén.