Hotels at Altamira-San Kristobal booking.com

Altamira-San Kristobal

Booking.com

Altamira-San Kristobal

General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	North
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -2.7015,Lat: 43.3684
Elevation	69 meter above sea level
Local time	7:31:37am
Name province/region	País Vasco
Name Subregion	Bizkaia
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Busturia

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Axpe-San Bartolomé	1.7 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Kanpantxua	2.7 km	SouthEast
3 Sukarrieta	3 km	NorthNorthEast
4 Atxondoa	3.5 km	SouthSouthEast
5 Elexalde Forua	4.4 km	SouthSouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	335 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Andorra	Andorra	359 km	EastSouthEast
3 St Helier	Jersey	650 km	NorthNorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Bay of Biscay is very close with only a distance of around 4 km (direction NorthNorthEast).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Basque County internal basins. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de Urrunaga (Urrunagako Urtegia) (8.1 km² at a height of around 547 meter above sea level) at a distance of 37.6 km in Southern direction).

The most nearby international border is the French-Spanish border with a straight distance of 74.3 km in Eastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 104 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 9%, low location: 45%, hill: 44%, low mountains: 2%, The hills are mainly eastern orientated. The most common land use in the area is forest.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport (at a distance of 226 km and direction NorthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Bilbao Airport (at a distance of 18 km in WestSouthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

36.8 km2

47.4%

Nature

11.1 km2

14.4%

Wet nature

7.2 km2

9.3%

Agriculture

21.6 km2

27.8%

Urban area

0.6 km2

0.8%

Water - Lakes

0.3 km2

0.3%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Altamira-San Kristobal in country Spain

Altamira-San Kristobal at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Vizcaya Bridge	Spain	26 km	West
2 Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain	Spain	115 km	West
3 San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries	Spain	116 km	SouthSouthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Urdaibaiko ibai sarea / Red fluvial de Urdaibai	ES	0.2 km	SouthSouthWest

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Altamira-San Kristobal
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Altamira-San Kristobal
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Axpe de Busturia

Type of weather in Axpe de Busturia	broken clouds
Current temperature:	12 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	1.54 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 2)
Wind direction:	East South East
Air pressure:	1008 mb
Humidity:	94 %
Daylength at 17 May 2024:	14 hour and 46 minutes
Sunrise :	06:44 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:30 Europe/Amsterdam