Yegen
Yegen is a village of the municipality of Alpujarra de la Sierra in the province of Granada. The village was the home of the British writer Gerald Brenan in the 1920s, and he described its customs in South from Granada, one of his best-known books.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 345 residents
- Description: human settlement in Granada Province, Spain
- Postal code: 18460
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iglesia de Yegen and Iglesia Parroquial de San José.
Iglesia Parroquial de San José
Church
Photo: Lopezsuarez, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia Parroquial de San José is a church, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Yegen.
Montenegro
Dwelling
Montenegro is a cortijada or hamlet part of the municipality of Alpujarra de la Sierra, province of Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It currently has 5 adult inhabitants.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yátor and Mecina Bombarón.
Ugíjar
Village
Photo: Andy Roberts, CC BY 2.0.
Ugíjar is a village, which is situated 6 km east of Yegen.
Yegen
- Categories: single entity of population and locality
- Location: Alpujarra de la Sierra, Granada, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
36.98271° or 36° 58′ 58″ northLongitude
-3.11873° or 3° 7′ 7″ westPopulation
345Elevation
1,038 metres (3,406 feet)Open location code
8C8RXVMJ+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 558843857OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2509397Wikidata ID
Q8051135
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Yegen” goes by many names.
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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 Wikipedia page “Yegen”. Photo: Laherrumbre, Public domain.