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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Northwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -6.7685,Lat: 42.4575
Elevation	699 meter above sea level
Local time	5:43:12am
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Castilla y León
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	León
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Carucedo

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Carucedo	3.6 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Salas de la Ribera	4.6 km	WestSouthWest
3 Borrenes	5.2 km	NorthEast
4 Quereño	6.5 km	WestSouthWest
5 Puente de Domingo Flórez	6.6 km	SouthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	346 km	SouthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	456 km	SouthWest
3 Andorra	Andorra	682 km	East

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Bay of Biscay is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 122 km (direction North).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Mino main - Medium - Sil, part of the larger catchment area Minho and Lima. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de Peñarrubia (1.1 km² at a height of around 396 meter above sea level) at a distance of 3.3 km in WestNorthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Peña Trevinca with a height of 2127 meter (at a distance of 24.8 km and direction SouthSouthWest). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 51.7 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 72 km.
Elevation around place: hill: 18%, low mountains: 64%, moderate high mountains: 18%, The hills are mainly northern orientated. The most common land use in the area is forest.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (at a distance of 144 km and direction WestNorthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Bragança Airport (at a distance of 67 km in Southern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

34.8 km2

44.4%

Nature

27.4 km2

34.8%

Wet nature

0.9 km2

1.1%

Agriculture

12.7 km2

16.2%

Water - Lakes

1.6 km2

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Las Médulas in country Spain

Las Médulas at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Las Médulas	Spain	1.3 km	North
2 Roman Walls of Lugo	Spain	90 km	NorthWest
3 Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain	Spain	101 km	NorthNorthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Montes Aquilanos	ES	0 km	East

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Carucedo

Type of weather in Carucedo	broken clouds
Current temperature:	4 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	1.46 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	North North West
Air pressure:	1018 mb
Humidity:	90 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	9 hour and 33 minutes
Sunrise :	08:27 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	17:59 Europe/Amsterdam