Buffadero Battery

Buffadero Battery was an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located on Windmill Hill.

Description
At the end of the nineteenth century Buffadero Battery had a BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX–X which were part of fourteen available for long range bombardment. These guns could fire across the Straits of Gibraltar including hitting shipping on the coast of Morocco.

A well-like cave was in close proximity to the battery. According to the Royal Engineers, Buffadero Battery is possibly an anglicized corruption derived from the Spanish " bufido " which means "blowing" or "snorting," or it might be of Genoese origin, as many Genoese workmen having been employed in Gibraltar.

Buffadero was the name of a village where people lived at the south end of Gibraltar before World War II. Today the village is used for training soldiers in urban combat.