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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -15.47,Lat: 27.995
Elevation	450 meter above sea level
Local time	21:14:57pm
At island	Gran-canaria
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Canarias
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	Las Palmas
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Valsequillo de Gran Canaria

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Los Llanetes	0.9 km	WestSouthWest
2 Los Almendros	0.9 km	WestNorthWest
3 Tecén de Valsequillo	1.1 km	SouthEast
4 Los Pinos	1.2 km	North
5 La Cantera	1.3 km	NorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1287 km	EastNorthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	1298 km	NorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	1717 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Atlantic Ocean is the nearest oceancoast with a distance of around 8 km (direction EastNorthEast). The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de Chira (0.7 km² at a height of around 903 meter above sea level) at a distance of 17.9 km in Western direction).

The nearest mountain is Moriscos with a height of 1771 meter (at a distance of 14.8 km and direction WestNorthWest).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Gran Canaria (Fissure vent) at a distance of 11.1 km (direction WestNorthWest). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 1238 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 1733 km.
Elevation around place: low location: 6%, hill: 46%, low mountains: 39%, moderate high mountains: 9%, The hills are mainly northeastern orientated. The most common land use in the area is nature.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Gran Canaria Airport (at a distance of 11 km and direction SouthSouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (at a distance of 105 km in NorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Nature

42.5 km2

54.2%

Agriculture

30.1 km2

38.4%

Viticulture

1 km2

1.2%

Urban area

3 km2

3.8%

Rock-Sand

0.6 km2

0.8%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of La Barrera in country Spain

La Barrera 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	20 km	NorthWest
2 San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Spain	102 km	NorthWest
3 Teide National Park	Spain	123 km	WestNorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Los Marteles	ES	1.8 km	SouthWest

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Valsequillo de Gran Canaria

Type of weather in Valsequillo de Gran Canaria	few clouds
Current temperature:	20 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	0 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 0)
Wind direction:	North
Air pressure:	1018 mb
Humidity:	73 %
Daylength at 24 November 2024:	10 hour and 36 minutes
Sunrise :	08:30 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:06 Europe/Amsterdam