Alfaro
Alfaro is a town and municipality in La Rioja, northern Spain. Its population in January 2009 was 9,883 inhabitants, and its area is 194.23 km2. It is known for the annual return and nesting of the 'Storks of Alfaro.' During ancient Roman times, Alfaro was a municipium known as Graccuris; named after Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AlfaroCity, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 9,780 residents
- Description: Spanish municipality in La Rioja
- Also known as: “Alfaro, La Rioja”
- Postal code: 26540
Places of Interest
Highlights include Collegiate of San Miguel Arcángel, Alfaro and Train station of Alfaro.
Collegiate of San Miguel Arcángel, Alfaro
Church
Photo: VirAlfaro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Collegiate of San Miguel Arcángel, Alfaro is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castejón and Cadreita.
Castejón
Village
Castejón is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Castejón is home to Spain's largest photovoltaic power plant, which opened in 2006. Castejón is situated 5 km east of Alfaro.
Cadreita
Village
Cadreita is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Cadreita is situated 6 km northeast of Alfaro.
Milagro
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Milagro is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. Milagro is situated 7 km north of Alfaro.
Alfaro
- Categories: municipality of La Rioja and locality
- Location: Alfaro, La Rioja, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.17857° or 42° 10′ 43″ northLongitude
-1.74925° or 1° 44′ 57″ westPopulation
9,780Elevation
298 metres (978 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES AFOOpen location code
8CJW57H2+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 81332877OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Waray—“Alfaro” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Alfaro”
- Armenian: “Ալֆարո”
- Asturian: “Alfaro”
- Basque: “Alfaro”
- Breton: “Alfaro”
- Catalan: “Alfaro”
- Cebuano: “Alfaro (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Alfaro”
- Chechen: “Альфаро”
- Chinese: “Alfaro”
- Chinese: “阿尔法罗”
- Chinese: “阿爾法羅”
- Dutch: “Alfaro”
- Esperanto: “Alfaro”
- French: “Alfaro”
- Galician: “Alfaro”
- Georgian: “ალფარო”
- German: “Alfaro”
- Hungarian: “Alfaro”
- Interlingua: “Alfaro, La Rioja”
- Interlingua: “Alfaro”
- Interlingue: “Alfaro, La Rioja”
- Interlingue: “Alfaro”
- Irish: “Alfaro”
- Italian: “Alfaro”
- Japanese: “アルファロ (スペイン)”
- Kazakh: “Alʹfaro”
- Kazakh: “Альфаро”
- Kazakh: “الفارو”
- Ladin: “Alfaro”
- Lithuanian: “Alfaras”
- Lombard: “Alfaro (Spagna)”
- Lombard: “Alfaro”
- Luxembourgish: “Alfaro”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Alfaro”
- Malay: “Alfaro, La Rioja”
- Malay: “Alfaro”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alfaro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alfaro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alfaro”
- Persian: “الفارو، لا ریوجا”
- Polish: “Alfaro”
- Portuguese: “Alfaro”
- Romanian: “Alfaro”
- Russian: “Альфаро”
- South Azerbaijani: “الفارو، لا ریوجا”
- Spanish: “Alfaro”
- Spanish: “Eixt”
- Swedish: “Alfaro”
- Tatar: “Альфаро”
- Turkish: “Alfaro”
- Ukrainian: “Альфаро”
- Uzbek: “Alfaro”
- Uzbek: “Алфаро”
- Venetian: “Alfaro (Spagna)”
- Venetian: “Alfaro”
- Vietnamese: “Alfaro, La Rioja”
- Vietnamese: “Alfaro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alfaro, La Rioja”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alfaro”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Canalija and El Sotillo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de España and Parque de la colegiata.
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