Orce

Orce is a municipality located in the province of Granada, in southeastern . According to the 2009 census, the town has a population of 1,333 inhabitants.
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  • Type: Village with 1,030 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Granada Province, Spain
  • Postal code: 18858

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alcazaba de las Siete Torres and Iglesia de Santa María de la Anunciación, Orce.

Castle
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is a castle.

Church
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is a church.

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is an archaeological site in Orce, Andalusia, Spain with an age range between 1.2 and 1.4 million of years. It is noted for having yielded evidence of hominin occupation, including the milk tooth of a boy or girl of 10 years.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fuente Nueva and Galera.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km east of Orce.

Village
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is a municipality in the comarca of Huéscar, province of , autonomous community of , Spain. It is situated in a sparsely populated area roughly 150 kilometres from the provincial capital, . is situated 7 km west of Orce.

Hamlet
is a locality in the municipio of Orce in the . It is known for a paleontological site which has yielded animal remains dated to between 1.5 and 1.6 million years ago. is situated 8 km east of Orce.

Orce

Latitude
37.72128° or 37° 43′ 17″ north
Longitude
-2.47942° or 2° 28′ 46″ west
Population
1,030
Elevation
941 metres (3,087 feet)
Open location code
8C9VPGCC+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5490986588
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2513097
Wiki­data ID
Q605372
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Orce” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أورثي”
  • Aragonese: “Orce”
  • Armenian: “Օրսե”
  • Asturian: “Orce”
  • Basque: “Orce”
  • Bulgarian: “Орсе”
  • Catalan: “Orce”
  • Cebuano: “Orce (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Orce”
  • Chechen: “Орсе”
  • Chinese: “Orce”
  • Chinese: “奥尔塞”
  • Chinese: “奧爾塞”
  • Danish: “Orce”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Orce”
  • Dutch: “Orce”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورثى”
  • Esperanto: “Orce”
  • French: “Orce”
  • Galician: “Orce”
  • Georgian: “ორსე (გრანადა)”
  • Georgian: “ორსე”
  • German: “Orce”
  • Haitian: “Orce”
  • Hungarian: “Orce”
  • Interlingua: “Orce”
  • Irish: “Orce”
  • Italian: “Orce”
  • Japanese: “オルセ”
  • Kazakh: “Orse”
  • Kazakh: “Орсе”
  • Kazakh: “ورسە”
  • Ladin: “Orce”
  • Lombard: “Orce”
  • Luxembourgish: “Orce”
  • Malay: “Orce”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Orce”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orce”
  • Norwegian: “Orce”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Orce”
  • Polish: “Orce”
  • Portuguese: “Orce”
  • Russian: “Орсе”
  • Spanish: “Orce”
  • Swedish: “Orce”
  • Tatar: “Орсе”
  • Turkish: “Orce”
  • Ukrainian: “Орсе”
  • Urdu: “اورسے، ہسپانیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Orce”
  • Uzbek: “Orse”
  • Uzbek: “Орcе”
  • Uzbek: “Орсе”
  • Venetian: “Orce”
  • Vietnamese: “Orce”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Orce”
  • “Orce”

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