Genil
The Genil River is the main tributary of the river Guadalquivir in Andalusia, Spain. Known as Singilis in Latin, its modern name derives from the Moorish rendering of the Roman name: Sinyil, Sannil, and Sinnil.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Peñaflor train station and Antiguo Convento de Santa Clara.
Peñaflor train station
Railway station
Palma del Río train station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peñaflor and Palma del Río.
Peñaflor
Village
Palma del Río
Town
Genil
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Spain
- Categories: river, gold river, and body of water
- Location: Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.69317° or 37° 41′ 35″ north
Longitude
-5.31598° or 5° 18′ 58″ west
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Open location code
8C9PMMVM+7J
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Satellite Map
Discover Genil from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Genil” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشنيل”
- Arabic: “شنيل”
- Arabic: “نهر الثلج”
- Arabic: “نهر الشنيل”
- Arabic: “نهر سنجل”
- Arabic: “نهر شنيل”
- Arabic: “نهر غرناطة”
- Arabic: “وادي الشنيل”
- Arabic: “وادي شنيل”
- Asturian: “Ríu Genil”
- Basque: “Genil”
- Bavarian: “Genil”
- Belarusian: “Хеніль”
- Bulgarian: “Хенил”
- Catalan: “Genil”
- Cebuano: “Río Genil”
- Chinese: “赫尼尔河”
- Chinese: “赫尼爾河”
- Czech: “Genil”
- Dutch: “Genil”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر شنيل”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Genil”
- Estonian: “Genil”
- Finnish: “Genil”
- French: “Genil”
- Galician: “Río Genil”
- German: “Genil”
- Greek: “Χενίλ”
- Irish: “Genil”
- Italian: “Genil”
- Japanese: “ヘニル川”
- Kazakh: “Хениль”
- Ladin: “Genil”
- Latin: “Singilis”
- Lithuanian: “Chenilis”
- Macedonian: “Хенил”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Genil”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Genil”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Genil”
- Polish: “Genil”
- Portuguese: “Rio Genil”
- Romanian: “Genil”
- Romanian: “Râul genil”
- Romanian: “Râul Genil”
- Russian: “Хениль”
- Serbian: “Хенил”
- Slovenian: “Genil”
- South Azerbaijani: “شنیل چایی”
- Spanish: “Genil”
- Spanish: “Rio Genil”
- Spanish: “Río Genil”
- Swedish: “Río Genil”
- Turkish: “Genil”
- Upper Sorbian: “Genil”
- Urdu: “دریائے شنیل”
- Venetian: “Fiume Genil”
- Western Panjabi: “شنیل”
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