La Marañosa
La Marañosa is a locality of Madrid, Spain. Its hills overlook both banks of the Jarama river. The locality is known for being home of The "Fábrica Nacional de Productos Químicos" which supplied the Spanish Army of Africa with chemical warfare agents during the Rif rebellion between 1923 and 1927.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 159 residents
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Barrio La Marañosa”, “La Maranosa”, “Marañosa”, and “Maranosa de Santa Barbara”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pinto.
Pinto
Town
Photo: Onanymous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pinto is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located in the central area of the Iberian Peninsula at an altitude of 604 meters, 20 kilometers south of Madrid, and covers 62.7 square kilometers. Pinto is situated 10 km west of La Marañosa.
La Marañosa
- Categories: mountain and locality
- Location: San Martín de la Vega, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
40.27351° or 40° 16′ 25″ northLongitude
-3.59123° or 3° 35′ 28″ westPopulation
159Elevation
630 metres (2,067 feet)Open location code
8CGR7CF5+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 11014370888OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3119485Wikidata ID
Q988865
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“La Marañosa” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Marañosako muinoak”
- Czech: “Cerros de la Marañosa”
- Dutch: “La Marañosa”
- French: “La Marañosa”
- German: “La Marañosa”
- Ladin: “La Marañosa”
- Spanish: “Cerros de la maranosa”
- Spanish: “Cerros de la Marañosa”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Instituto Tecnológico La Marañosa and Casa de Compuertas de la Acequia del Jarama.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Marañosa”. Photo: Miguel303xm, CC BY-SA 2.5.