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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Northwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -6.3901,Lat: 42.6024
Elevation	650 meter above sea level
Local time	5:43:18am
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Castilla y León
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	León
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Torre del Bierzo

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Viloria	1.7 km	WestNorthWest
2 Albares de la Ribera	2.1 km	East
3 San Pedro Castañero	2.3 km	SouthWest
4 Bembibre	2.6 km	NorthWest
5 San Andrés de las Puentes	3.5 km	South

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	334 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	485 km	SouthWest
3 Andorra	Andorra	651 km	East

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Bay of Biscay is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 105 km (direction NorthNorthEast).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 Bárcena (9 km² at a height of around 624 meter above sea level) at a distance of 11.3 km in WestNorthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Peña Guiana with a height of 1850 meter (at a distance of 18.2 km and direction SouthSouthWest). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 72.1 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 101 km.
Elevation around place: low mountains: 64%, moderate high mountains: 36%, The hills are mainly northern 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 169 km and direction WestNorthWest).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is León Airport (at a distance of 60 km in EastSouthEastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

25.7 km2

32.8%

Nature

15.2 km2

19.4%

Agriculture

30.5 km2

38.8%

Viticulture

1.9 km2

2.4%

Urban area

3.9 km2

Infrastructure

1 km2

1.2%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Las Ventas de Albares in country Spain

Las Ventas de Albares at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Las Médulas	Spain	34 km	WestSouthWest
2 Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain	Spain	81 km	North
3 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias	Spain	95 km	NorthEast

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Alto Sil	ES	21 km	NorthNorthEast

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Torre del Bierzo

Type of weather in Torre del Bierzo	broken clouds
Current temperature:	4 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	2.24 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 2)
Wind direction:	West South West
Air pressure:	1018 mb
Humidity:	99 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	9 hour and 32 minutes
Sunrise :	08:26 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	17:57 Europe/Amsterdam