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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	North
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -5.9727,Lat: 43.5687
Elevation	54 meter above sea level
Local time	8:50:13am
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Principado de Asturias
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	Asturias
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Castrillón
Other place with same name 1	El Pontón Comunitat Valenciana - Valencia/València

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 San Francisco	0.4 km	SouthWest
2 Las Chabolas	0.7 km	NorthNorthWest
3 La Fábrica	0.8 km	NorthNorthWest
4 Piedrasblancas	1 km	SouthSouthWest
5 El Cotu Carcéu	1.4 km	EastSouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	400 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	595 km	SouthWest
3 Andorra	Andorra	624 km	EastSouthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

El Pontón lies at the Bay of Biscay (direction North).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Mino coastal: Narcea, part of the larger catchment area Minho and Lima. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de la Granda (0.6 km² at a height of around 31 meter above sea level) at a distance of 9.1 km in EastSouthEastern direction).

The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 184.1 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 258 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 12%, low location: 88%, hill: 0%, The hills are mainly southeastern orientated. The surroundings of the place have a rural character (very sparsely urbanised). The most common land use in the area is agriculture.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (at a distance of 211 km and direction West).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Asturias Airport (at a distance of 5 km in Western direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

13.2 km2

23.5%

Nature

0.8 km2

1.4%

Agriculture

27.9 km2

49.5%

Urban area

9.5 km2

16.8%

Infrastructure

1.7 km2

3.1%

Rock-Sand

1 km2

1.8%

Water - Lakes

1.7 km2

3.1%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of El Pontón in country Spain

El Pontón at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias	Spain	25 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain	Spain	44 km	WestSouthWest
3 Las Médulas	Spain	138 km	SouthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Cabo Busto-Luanco	ES	1.1 km	NorthNorthWest

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Laspra

Type of weather in Laspra	scattered clouds
Current temperature:	8 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	4.63 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	South West
Air pressure:	1020 mb
Humidity:	82 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	9 hour and 26 minutes
Sunrise :	08:27 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	17:53 Europe/Amsterdam