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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Northwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -8.1912,Lat: 43.3639
Elevation	63 meter above sea level
Local time	20:48:02pm
Name province/region	Galicia
Name Subregion	Coruña, A
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Miño

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Bañobre	0.6 km	West
2 Leiro	1.1 km	SouthEast
3 Costa Anacara	1.1 km	North
4 Hombre	1.7 km	North
5 San Xoán	1.8 km	North

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	501 km	SouthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	519 km	SouthSouthWest
3 St Helier	Jersey	796 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

Castro lies at the Atlantic Ocean (direction WestNorthWest).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Galician Coast. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de Cecebre (3.7 km² at a height of around 35 meter above sea level) at a distance of 11.3 km in SouthWestern direction).

The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 134.5 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 188 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 3%, low location: 84%, hill: 13%, The hills are mainly western orientated. The most common land use in the area is forest.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (at a distance of 55 km and direction SouthSouthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is A Coruña Airport (at a distance of 16 km in Western direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

28.4 km2

47.5%

Nature

0.6 km2

1.1%

Wet nature

0.4 km2

0.7%

Agriculture

23.7 km2

39.6%

Urban area

5.6 km2

9.3%

Infrastructure

0.4 km2

0.6%

Rock-Sand

0.3 km2

0.5%

Water - Lakes

0.5 km2

0.8%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Castro in country Spain

Castro at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Tower of Hercules	Spain	18 km	WestNorthWest
2 Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)	Spain	60 km	SouthWest
3 Roman Walls of Lugo	Spain	66 km	SouthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Betanzos - Mandeo	ES	2.2 km	SouthWest

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Miño

Type of weather in Miño	light intensity drizzle
Current temperature:	15 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	5.66 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	South South West
Air pressure:	1013 mb
Humidity:	82 %
Daylength at 4 May 2024:	14 hour and 16 minutes
Sunrise :	07:21 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:37 Europe/Amsterdam