Purchena
Purchena is a small town in Almería, southern Spain. It is situated at the foot of the Sierra de los Filabres, in the middle of the Almanzora River Valley, surrounded by woods which ascend towards the mountains, an environment which contrasts with the rest of the municipalities of the area which are set in much more arid surroundings.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,280 residents
- Description: municipality in Spain
- Also known as: “04076”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iglesia de San Ginés de la Jara and Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
Iglesia de San Ginés de la Jara
Church
Photo: 19Tarrestnom65, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia de San Ginés de la Jara is a church.
Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Church
Photo: 19Tarrestnom65, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora del Rosario is a church, which is situated 4½ km west of Purchena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Suflí and Sierro.
Suflí
Village
Suflí is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Suflí is known for a product of tomatoes and peppers that's roasted and bottled in a nearby factory called fritá.
Sierro
Village
Photo: Jrubmart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sierro is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, It is located in the valley of the River Sierro in the 'Comarca del Mármol', county of the marble. Sierro is situated 4½ km southwest of Purchena.
Armuña de Almanzora
Village
Photo: 19Tarrestnom65, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Armuña de Almanzora is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Armuña de Almanzora is situated 4½ km west of Purchena.
Purchena
- Categories: municipality of Spain and locality
- Location: Almería, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.3477° or 37° 20′ 52″ northLongitude
-2.3608° or 2° 21′ 39″ westPopulation
1,280Elevation
638 metres (2,093 feet)Open location code
8C9V8JXQ+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 27715974OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6355588Wikidata ID
Q1445232
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Purchena” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برشانة”
- Arabic: “بورتشينا”
- Aragonese: “Purchena”
- Armenian: “Պուրչենա”
- Asturian: “Purchena”
- Basque: “Purchena”
- Breton: “Purchena”
- Catalan: “Purchena”
- Cebuano: “Purchena”
- Chechen: “Пурчена”
- Chinese: “Purchena”
- Chinese: “普尔切纳”
- Chinese: “普爾切納”
- Danish: “Purchena”
- Dutch: “Purchena”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورتشينا”
- Esperanto: “Purchena”
- French: “Purchena”
- Galician: “Purchena”
- Georgian: “პურჩენა”
- German: “Purchena”
- Haitian: “Purchena (Almería)”
- Haitian: “Purchena”
- Hungarian: “Purchena”
- Indonesian: “Purchena”
- Interlingua: “Purchena”
- Irish: “Purchena”
- Italian: “Purchena”
- Japanese: “プルチェナ”
- Ladin: “Purchena”
- Lithuanian: “Purčena”
- Lombard: “Purchena”
- Macedonian: “Пурчена”
- Malay: “Purchena”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Purchena”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Purchena”
- Norwegian: “Purchena”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Purchena”
- Persian: “پورچنا”
- Polish: “Purchena”
- Portuguese: “Purchena”
- Romanian: “Purchena”
- Russian: “Пурчена”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورچنا”
- Spanish: “Purchena”
- Swedish: “Purchena”
- Tatar: “Пурчена”
- Turkish: “Purchena”
- Ukrainian: “Пурчена”
- Uzbek: “Purchena”
- Uzbek: “Пурчена”
- Venetian: “Purchena”
- Vietnamese: “Purchena”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purchena”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de España and Ayuntamiento de Purchena.
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