Bárcena Mayor
Bárcena Mayor is a village nestled in the mountains of Cantabria, Spain in the municipality of Los Tojos, and is the only residential village within Saja Reservation within the Saja and Nansa valleys community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Luis Rogelio HM, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Luis Rogelio HM, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 55 residents
- Description: human settlement in Los Tojos, Cantabria, Spain
- Also known as: “Barcena Mayor”
Photo: Ruizo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Argonza River and Saja-Besaya Natural Park.
Saja-Besaya Natural Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Juan sin Tierra, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saja-Besaya Natural Park is Cantabria's largest natural park on the northern slope of the Cantabrian Mountains in West Central Cantabria, Spain. Its hunting reserve is approximately 1800km², the largest and most important in Spain. Saja-Besaya Natural Park is situated 2½ km west of Bárcena Mayor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saja and El Tojo.
Saja
Hamlet
Photo: Dolmanrg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saja is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km west of Bárcena Mayor.
El Tojo
Hamlet
Photo: P. B. Obregón, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Tojo is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km west of Bárcena Mayor.
Los Llares
Hamlet
Los Llares is a town in the Arenas de Iguña municipality of the Spanish region of Cantabria. In the year 2004 the population of los Llares was 45. The town is located 5.1 kilometers from the capital of the municipality, Arenas de Iguña, and 245 meters above sea level. Los Llares is situated 9 km northeast of Bárcena Mayor.
Bárcena Mayor
- Categories: locality and historic grouping
- Location: Los Tojos, Cantabria, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
43.14304° or 43° 8′ 35″ northLongitude
-4.19327° or 4° 11′ 36″ westPopulation
55Elevation
502 metres (1,647 feet)Open location code
8CMQ4RV4+6MOpenStreetMap ID
node 288259128OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
3128736Wikidata ID
Q5004843
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Bárcena Mayor” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bárcena Mayor”
- Dutch: “Bárcena Mayor”
- French: “Bárcena Mayor”
- German: “Bárcena Mayor”
- Portuguese: “Bárcena Mayor”
- Spanish: “Bárcena Mayor”
- Spanish: “Conjunto histórico de Bárcena Mayor”
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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 “Bárcena Mayor”. Photo: Luis Rogelio HM, CC BY-SA 2.0.