Barracas
Barracas is a Spanish town located in Castellón. In 2004 a truck carrying 25 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded half an hour after a traffic accident on March 9, 2004, killing two people and injuring five others.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 189 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “12020”, “Barracas, Spain”, and “Barraques”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ermita de la Virgen de Gracia.
Ermita de la Virgen de Gracia
Chapel
Photo: TaronjaSatsuma, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ermita de la Virgen de Gracia is a chapel, which is situated 4 km east of Barracas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pina de Montalgrao and San Agustín.
Pina de Montalgrao
Village
Photo: Wakamai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pina de Montalgrao, or simply Pina, is a municipality in the comarca of Alto Palancia, Castellón, Valencia, Spain. According to the 2010 census the municipality has a population of 148 inhabitants. This town is located in the mountainous Sistema Ibérico area. Pina de Montalgrao is situated 3½ km east of Barracas.
San Agustín
Village
Photo: 19Tarrestnom65, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Agustín is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. It lies just east of the Autovía A-23 60 km south east of the town of Teruel and 70 km north west of Sagunt. San Agustín is situated 5 km north of Barracas.
El Toro
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Toro is a municipality in the comarca of Alto Palancia, Castellón, Valencia, Spain. The Sierra del Toro mountain range is named after this town. El Toro is situated 6 km southwest of Barracas.
Barracas
- Categories: municipality of Spain, municipality of the Valencian Community, and locality
- Location: Castellón, Valencian Community, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
40.0162° or 40° 0′ 58″ northLongitude
-0.6976° or 0° 41′ 51″ westPopulation
189Elevation
980 metres (3,215 feet)Open location code
8CGX2882+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 324296990OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6356978Wikidata ID
Q1995232
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Barracas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باراكاس، كاستيلون”
- Arabic: “باراكاس”
- Aragonese: “Barracas”
- Basque: “Barracas”
- Basque: “Barraques”
- Catalan: “Barraques”
- Cebuano: “Barracas”
- Chechen: “Барракас”
- Chinese: “Barracas”
- Chinese: “巴拉卡斯”
- Dutch: “Barracas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باراكاس”
- Esperanto: “Barracas”
- French: “Barracas”
- French: “Barraques”
- Galician: “Barracas”
- Georgian: “ბარაკასი”
- German: “Barracas”
- Hungarian: “Barracas”
- Interlingua: “Barraques”
- Irish: “Barracas”
- Italian: “Barracas”
- Ladin: “Barracas”
- Lombard: “Barracas”
- Malay: “Barracas, Castellón”
- Malay: “Barracas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barracas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barracas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Barracas”
- Pampanga: “Barracas”
- Polish: “Barracas”
- Portuguese: “Barracas”
- Portuguese: “Barraques”
- Russian: “Барракас”
- Spanish: “Barracas”
- Spanish: “Barraques”
- Swedish: “Barracas”
- Tatar: “Барракас”
- Turkish: “Barracas”
- Ukrainian: “Барракас”
- Ukrainian: “Барракес”
- Uzbek: “Barracas”
- Uzbek: “Barrakas”
- Uzbek: “Барраcас”
- Uzbek: “Барракас”
- Venetian: “Barracas”
- Vietnamese: “Barracas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barracas, Castellón”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barracas”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ayuntamiento de Barracas and Iglesia de San Pedro.
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