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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	North
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -4.4006,Lat: 43.3825
Elevation	51 meter above sea level
Local time	3:13:24am
Name province/region (Comunidad Autónoma)	Cantabria
Wiki-website Subregion (Provincia)	Cantabria
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	San Vicente de la Barquera

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 La Acebosa	1.9 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Abaño	2.3 km	South
3 La Revilla	3 km	EastSouthEast
4 Rupuente	3.7 km	East
5 Prellezo	3.8 km	WestNorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	334 km	South
2 Andorra	Andorra	495 km	EastSouthEast
3 Lisboa	Portugal	646 km	SouthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

San Vicente de la Barquera lies at the Bay of Biscay (direction NorthEast).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 Cohilla (0.5 km² at a height of around 780 meter above sea level) at a distance of 27.7 km in Southern direction).

The most nearby international border is the French-Spanish border with a straight distance of 212.1 km in Eastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 297 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 8%, low location: 90%, hill: 2%, The hills are mainly northeastern orientated. 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 330 km and direction West).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Seve Ballesteros-Santander Airport (at a distance of 47 km in Eastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

7.9 km2

14.5%

Nature

5.9 km2

10.7%

Wet nature

2.9 km2

5.3%

Agriculture

34.9 km2

63.8%

Urban area

0.9 km2

1.7%

Infrastructure

0.3 km2

0.5%

Rock-Sand

0.9 km2

1.6%

Water - Lakes

0.4 km2

0.6%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of San Vicente de la Barquera in country Spain

San Vicente de la Barquera at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain	Spain	23 km	East
2 Vizcaya Bridge	Spain	113 km	EastSouthEast
3 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias	Spain	117 km	West

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Rias occidentales y Duna de Oyambre	ES	0.2 km	WestNorthWest

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at San Vicente de la Barquera

Type of weather in San Vicente de la Barquera	broken clouds
Current temperature:	12 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	10.27 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 5)
Wind direction:	West North West
Air pressure:	1014 mb
Humidity:	78 %
Daylength at 22 November 2024:	9 hour and 27 minutes
Sunrise :	08:20 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	17:47 Europe/Amsterdam