Pájara
Pájara is a municipality in the southwestern portion of the island of Fuerteventura in the Province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands as well as the name of its largest town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 868 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “Pajara”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Regla is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ajuy.
Ajuy
Hamlet
Photo: Wollex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ajuy is a small remote fishing village on the west coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. It is part of the municipality Pájara. Not far from Ajuy is where the Norman Jean de Béthencourt landed in 1402 to conquer the island for the Spanish crown. Ajuy is situated 7 km northwest of Pájara.
Pájara
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Pájara, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.34979° or 28° 20′ 59″ northLongitude
-14.10809° or 14° 6′ 29″ westPopulation
868Elevation
213 metres (699 feet)Open location code
7CW78VXR+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 33108334OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2513026Wikidata ID
Q661198
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Pájara” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pájara”
- Arabic: “باخارا”
- Aragonese: “Pájara”
- Basque: “Pájara”
- Catalan: “Pájara”
- Cebuano: “Pájara”
- Chechen: “Пахара”
- Chinese: “帕哈拉”
- Danish: “Pájara”
- Dutch: “Pájara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باخارا”
- Esperanto: “Pájara”
- Finnish: “Pájara”
- French: “Pájara”
- Galician: “Pájara”
- Georgian: “პახარა”
- German: “Pajara”
- German: “Pájara”
- Hungarian: “Pájara”
- Interlingua: “Pájara”
- Irish: “Pájara”
- Italian: “Pájara”
- Japanese: “パハラ”
- Ladin: “Pájara”
- Latin: “Pájara”
- Lithuanian: “Pacharas”
- Lombard: “Pájara”
- Malay: “Pájara”
- Northern Frisian: “Pájara”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pájara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pájara”
- Polish: “Pájara”
- Portuguese: “Pájara”
- Russian: “Пахара”
- Spanish: “Pajara”
- Spanish: “Pájara”
- Swedish: “Pájara”
- Tatar: “Пахара”
- Turkish: “Pájara”
- Ukrainian: “Пахара”
- Uzbek: “Pájara”
- Venetian: “Pájara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pájara”
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