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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -15.7793,Lat: 27.9726
Elevation	535 meter above sea level
Local time	0:44:31am
At island	Gran-canaria
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Canarias
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	Las Palmas
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	San Nicolás de Tolentino
Other place with same name 1	La Cardonera Canarias - Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Molino de Viento	0.5 km	NorthNorthWest
2 El Pinillo	0.6 km	NorthEast
3 La Aldea de San Nicolás	0.9 km	North
4 Molino de Agua	1.2 km	EastNorthEast
5 La Aldea de San Nicolás	1.3 km	NorthNorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1310 km	EastNorthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	1312 km	NorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	1737 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Atlantic Ocean is very close with only a distance of around 5 km (direction NorthWest). The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de la Cueva de las Niñas (0.6 km² at a height of around 892 meter above sea level) at a distance of 11.6 km in SouthEastern direction).

The nearest mountain is Moriscos with a height of 1771 meter (at a distance of 16.9 km and direction East).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Gran Canaria (Fissure vent) at a distance of 20 km (direction East). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 1257 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 1760 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 0%, low location: 22%, hill: 38%, low mountains: 28%, moderate high mountains: 12%, high mountains: 0%, 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 40 km and direction EastSouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (at a distance of 82 km in NorthNorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

2.8 km2

3.5%

Nature

63.1 km2

80.5%

Agriculture

11.7 km2

14.9%

Urban area

0.9 km2

1.1%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of La Cardonera in country Spain

La Cardonera 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	14 km	EastNorthEast
2 San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Spain	79 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Teide National Park	Spain	94 km	NorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
El Nublo II	ES	0.5 km	SouthEast

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at San Nicolás

Type of weather in San Nicolás	clear sky
Current temperature:	25 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	5.65 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 4)
Wind direction:	East
Air pressure:	1017 mb
Humidity:	43 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	10 hour and 38 minutes
Sunrise :	08:30 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:08 Europe/Amsterdam