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Álora

Álora is a typical pueblo blanco, a whitewashed village in Andalucia. It is nestled between three rocky spurs topped by the ruins of the castle.
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  • Type: Town with 8,510 residents
  • Description: municipality of Spain
  • Also known as: “Alora”
  • Historically known as: “Iluro”
  • Postal codes: 29500 and 29510
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estación de Álora and Castillo (Álora).

Railway station
Photo: Andrzej O, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Square
Photo: Mike Finn, CC BY 2.0.
is a square.

Álora

Latitude
36.8239° or 36° 49′ 26″ north
Longitude
-4.7063° or 4° 42′ 23″ west
Population
8,510
Elevation
215 metres (705 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ES ALO
Open location code
8C8QR7FV+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1470839586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2521840
Wiki­data ID
Q250746
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Satellite Map

Discover Álora from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Álora” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Alora”
  • Albanian: “Álora”
  • Arabic: “ألورا، مالقة”
  • Arabic: “ألورا”
  • Aragonese: “Álora”
  • Armenian: “Ալորա”
  • Asturian: “Álora”
  • Basque: “Álora”
  • Breton: “Álora”
  • Catalan: “Álora”
  • Cebuano: “Alora”
  • Cebuano: “Álora”
  • Chechen: “Алора”
  • Chinese: “Álora”
  • Chinese: “阿洛拉”
  • Czech: “Álora”
  • Danish: “Álora”
  • Dutch: “Álora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الورا”
  • Esperanto: “Álora”
  • French: “Álora”
  • Galician: “Álora”
  • Georgian: “ალორა”
  • German: “Álora”
  • Haitian: “Alora”
  • Hungarian: “Álora”
  • Ido: “Álora”
  • Interlingua: “Álora”
  • Interlingue: “Álora”
  • Irish: “Álora”
  • Italian: “Álora”
  • Japanese: “アロラ”
  • Kazakh: “Алора”
  • Kongo: “Álora”
  • Korean: “알로라”
  • Ladin: “Álora”
  • Lithuanian: “Aloras”
  • Lombard: “Álora”
  • Malay: “Álora”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Álora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Álora”
  • Norwegian: “Álora”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Álora”
  • Persian: “الورا”
  • Polish: “Álora (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Álora”
  • Portuguese: “Álora”
  • Russian: “Алора”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الورا”
  • Spanish: “Alora”
  • Spanish: “Álora”
  • Swedish: “Alora”
  • Swedish: “Álora”
  • Tatar: “Алора”
  • Turkish: “Álora”
  • Ukrainian: “Алора”
  • Uzbek: “Álora”
  • Venetian: “Álora”
  • Vietnamese: “Álora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Álora”
  • Welsh: “Álora”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալորա”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Álora”. Photo: Andrzej O, CC BY-SA 3.0.