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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -13.8579,Lat: 28.3986
Elevation	146 meter above sea level
Local time	8:16:32am
At island	Fuerteventura
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Canarias
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	Las Palmas
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Antigua
Other place with same name 1	El Castillo Comunidad de Madrid - Madrid

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Caleta de Fuste	1 km	West
2 Costa de Antigua	1.5 km	NorthNorthEast
3 Urbanización Fuerteventura Golf Club	1.6 km	WestSouthWest
4 El Matorral	4.6 km	North
5 Los Alares	9.5 km	West

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1150 km	EastNorthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	1202 km	NorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	1596 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

El Castillo lies at the Atlantic Ocean (direction South). The nearest bigger lake is Laguna de Janubio (0.6 km² at a distance of 57.9 km in NorthNorthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Gran Montaña with a height of 708 meter (at a distance of 20.5 km and direction West).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Fuerteventura (Fissure vent) at a distance of 16.5 km (direction West). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 1119.3 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 1567 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 9%, low location: 90%, hill: 1%, The hills are mainly southeastern orientated. The most common land use in the area is nature.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Fuerteventura Airport (at a distance of 6 km and direction North).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Hassan I Airport (at a distance of 154 km in Southern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Nature

25.4 km2

68.9%

Agriculture

0.9 km2

2.4%

Urban area

8.5 km2

23%

Infrastructure

0.7 km2

1.8%

Rock-Sand

1.4 km2

3.8%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of El Castillo in country Spain

El Castillo at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape	Spain	182 km	West
2 San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Spain	245 km	WestNorthWest
3 Teide National Park	Spain	277 km	WestNorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Espacio marino del oriente y sur de Lanzarote-Fuerteventura	ES	1.5 km	SouthEast

Social media - Maps

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Filming Location	IMDB El Castillo
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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at El Matorral

Type of weather in El Matorral	clear sky
Current temperature:	22 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	3.6 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	North West
Air pressure:	1017 mb
Humidity:	60 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	10 hour and 36 minutes
Sunrise :	08:23 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	18:59 Europe/Amsterdam