Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, also known as Hajar Badis, is a Spanish exclave and rocky tidal island in the western Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Moroccan shore by a sandy isthmus, and to a smaller islet to the east, La Isleta, by a rocky isthmus.Photo: Soufiane elkadaoui, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: Spanish tidal island in North Africa
- Also known as: “Badis”, “El Peñón de Vélez”, “Isla de San Antonio”, “Peñón de la Gomera”, and “Rock of Badis”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torres Castle and Bni Boufrah.
Torres Castle
Hamlet
Torres Castle, also known as Sanhaja Castle, is a historical fortress located in Bni Boufrah, on the Mediterranean coast of Northern Morocco. The castle consists of five circular towers: four positioned in the four corners, and a fifth flanking the northern side of the entrance. Torres Castle is situated 3 km southwest of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
Bni Boufrah
Village
Ait Boufrah is a small town and rural commune in Al Hoceïma Province of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region of Morocco. At the time of the 2014 census, the commune had a total population of 9,633. Bni Boufrah is situated 8 km south of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Arabic: “جزيرة باديس”
- Arabic: “جزيرة قميرة”
- Arabic: “صخرة قميرة”
- Arabic: “قميرة”
- Arabic: “قميره”
- Aragonese: “Bélez d’a Gomera”
- Aragonese: “Peñón de Bélez d’a Gomera”
- Aragonese: “Penyón de Vélez d’a Gomera”
- Aragonese: “Penyón de Vélez da Gomera”
- Aragonese: “Penyón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Aragonese: “Vélez d’a Gomera”
- Armenian: “Պենիոն դե Վելես դե լա Գոմերա”
- Asturian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Azerbaijani: “Penon-de-Veles-de-la-Qomera”
- Azerbaijani: “Penyon-de-Veles-de-la-Qomera”
- Basque: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Basque: “Velez de la Gomera haitza”
- Basque: “Vélez de la Gomera haitza”
- Bulgarian: “Пеньон де Велес де ла Гомера”
- Catalan: “Peñon de San Antonio”
- Catalan: “Peñon de Velez de la Gomera”
- Catalan: “Penyal de San Antonio”
- Catalan: “Penyal de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Catalan: “Velez de la Gomera”
- Catalan: “Vélez de la Gomera”
- Cebuano: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Chinese: “戈梅拉岛”
- Chinese: “貝萊斯-德拉戈梅拉岩”
- Chinese: “贝莱斯-德拉戈梅拉岩”
- Chinese: “贝莱斯岩”
- Croatian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Czech: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Dimli (individual language): “Penon de Vélez”
- Dutch: “Badis Rock”
- Dutch: “Badis”
- Dutch: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة قميره”
- Esperanto: “Roko Vélez de la Gomera”
- Estonian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Finnish: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Finnish: “Velez de la Gomera”
- French: “Badis”
- French: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- French: “Peñon Velez de la Gomera”
- French: “Presqu’île Velez de la Gomera”
- French: “Rocher de Badis”
- Galician: “Peñón de Vélez da Gomera”
- Galician: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- German: “Badis Felsen”
- German: “Badis”
- German: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Greek: “Πενιόν ντε Βέλεθ δε λα Γομέρα”
- Hebrew: “פניון דה ולס דה לה גומרה”
- Indonesian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Interlingua: “Peñón de Vélez de le Gomera”
- Italian: “Pegnon di Velez della Gomera”
- Italian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Japanese: “ペニョン・デ・ベレス・デ・ラ・ゴメラ”
- Japanese: “ペニョン・デ・ベレス・デ・ラ・ゴメラ島”
- Kazakh: “Penʹon-de-Veles-de-la-Gomera”
- Kazakh: “Пеньон-де-Велес-де-ла-Гомера”
- Kazakh: “پەنون-دە-ۆەلەس-دە-لا-گومەرا”
- Korean: “페뇽데벨레스데라고메라 섬”
- Korean: “페뇽데벨레스데라고메라”
- Lithuanian: “Penjon de Veles de la Gomera”
- Luxembourgish: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Macedonian: “Пењон де Велез де ла Гомера”
- Macedonian: “Пењон де Велес де ла Гомера”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Norwegian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Persian: “صخره قمیره”
- Polish: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Portuguese: “Bades”
- Portuguese: “Badès”
- Portuguese: “Ilhéu de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Portuguese: “ilhote de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Portuguese: “Ilhote de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Portuguese: “Penedo de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Portuguese: “Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Portuguese: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Romanian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Russian: “Пеньон-де-Велес-де-ла-Гомера”
- Scots: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Serbian: “Penjon de Velez de la Gomera”
- Serbian: “Пењон де Велез де ла Гомера”
- Serbian: “Пењон де Велес де ла Гомера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Slovak: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Slovenian: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Spanish: “Bades”
- Spanish: “Penon de Velez de La Gomera”
- Spanish: “Penón de Velez de la Gomera”
- Spanish: “Penón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Spanish: “Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Spanish: “Peñón de Velez de La Gomera”
- Spanish: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Spanish: “Penon de Velez”
- Spanish: “Penon de Vélez”
- Spanish: “Penón de Velez”
- Spanish: “Peñon de Velez”
- Spanish: “Peñón de Velez”
- Spanish: “Velez de la Gomera”
- Swedish: “Penon de Velez de la Gomera”
- Swedish: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Thai: “เปญญอนเดเบเลซเดลาโกเมรา”
- Turkish: “Peñón de Vélez”
- Ukrainian: “Бадіс”
- Ukrainian: “Пеньйон-де-Велес-де-ла-Гомера”
- Urdu: “چٹان قمیرہ”
- Venetian: “Vélez de la Gomera”
- Vietnamese: “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- “Penon de Velez de la Gomera”
- “Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera”
- “Vélez de la Gomera”
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