Fornes
Fornes is a municipality in the province of Granada, Spain. As of 2019, it had a population of 555 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 521 residents
- Description: municipality in Granada Province, Spain
- Also known as: “Fornes, Granada”
- Postal code: 18127
- Neighbors: Alhama de Granada
Places of Interest
Highlights include Los Bermejales Reservoir.
Los Bermejales Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Daniel Callejas Sevilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Bermejales Reservoir is a reservoir in Arenas del Rey, province of Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is fed by streams from the Sierra de Almijara mountains in the Sierras of Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park and is the source of the Cacín River. Los Bermejales Reservoir is situated 3 km northwest of Fornes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jayena and Játar.
Jayena
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jayena is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 1237 inhabitants. The village is just north of the Sierras of Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park. Jayena is situated 3 km east of Fornes.
Játar
Village
Photo: Lopezsuarez, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Játar is a municipality in the province of Granada, Spain. As of 2019, it had a population of 614 inhabitants. Játar is situated 5 km southwest of Fornes.
Pantano de los Bermejales
Hamlet
Photo: Veinticuatro de Jahén, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pantano de los Bermejales is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km northwest of Fornes.
Fornes
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Arenas del Rey, Granada, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
36.95433° or 36° 57′ 16″ northLongitude
-3.85557° or 3° 51′ 20″ westPopulation
521Elevation
868 metres (2,848 feet)Open location code
8C8RX43V+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1110117318OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2517683Wikidata ID
Q5864049
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Fornes” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fornes”
- Basque: “Fornes”
- Catalan: “Fornes”
- Danish: “Fornes”
- Dutch: “Fornes”
- Esperanto: “Fornes”
- French: “Fornes”
- Galician: “Fornes”
- Georgian: “ფორნესი”
- German: “Fornes”
- Haitian: “Fornes (Grenad)”
- Haitian: “Fornes”
- Hungarian: “Fornes”
- Interlingua: “Fornes”
- Irish: “Fornes”
- Italian: “Fornes (Granada)”
- Italian: “Fornes”
- Ladin: “Fornes”
- Lombard: “Fornes”
- Malay: “Fornes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fornes”
- Norwegian: “Fornes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fornes”
- Portuguese: “Fornes”
- Romanian: “Fornes”
- Spanish: “Fornes”
- Turkish: “Fornes”
- Uzbek: “Fornes”
- Venetian: “Fornes”
- Vietnamese: “Fornes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fornes”
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