Cañas

Cañas is a municipality of La Rioja, . It was the birthplace of Saint Dominic of Silos. The abbey of Santa María de San Salvador de Cañas for Cistercian nuns was founded in this town by Lope Díaz I de Haro and his wife Aldonza in 1169 and 1170.
  • Locality with 93 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 672 metres (2,205 feet)
  • Description: municipality of Spain
  • Also known as
    “26040”
    “Cañas, La Rioja”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cordovín and Torrecilla sobre Alesanco.
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Cañas

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Latitude
42.3949° or 42° 23′ 42″ north
Longitude
-2.853° or 2° 51′ 11″ west
Open location code
8CJV94VW+XQ
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Aragonese to Waray—“Cañas” goes by many names.
  • Aragonese: “Cañas”
  • Armenian: “Կանիաս”
  • Asturian: “Cañas”
  • Basque: “Cañas”
  • Breton: “Cañas”
  • Catalan: “Cañas”
  • Cebuano: “Cañas”
  • Chechen: “Каньяс”
  • Chinese: “卡尼亚斯”
  • Dutch: “Cañas”
  • Esperanto: “Cañas”
  • French: “Cañas”
  • Galician: “Cañas”
  • Georgian: “კანიასი”
  • German: “Cañas”
  • Hebrew: “קניאס; לה ריוחה”
  • Hungarian: “Cañas”
  • Interlingua: “Cañas, La Rioja”
  • Interlingua: “Cañas”
  • Interlingue: “Cañas, La Rioja”
  • Interlingue: “Cañas”
  • Irish: “Cañas”
  • Italian: “Cañas”
  • Kazakh: “Каньяс”
  • Ladin: “Cañas”
  • Lombard: “Cañas (Spagna)”
  • Lombard: “Cañas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cañas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cañas”
  • Malay: “Cañas, La Rioja”
  • Malay: “Cañas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cañas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cañas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cañas”
  • Polish: “Cañas (Hiszpania)”
  • Polish: “Cañas”
  • Portuguese: “Cañas”
  • Russian: “Каньяс”
  • Slovenian: “Cañas”
  • Spanish: “Cañas”
  • Swedish: “Cañas”
  • Tatar: “Каньяс”
  • Turkish: “Cañas”
  • Ukrainian: “Каньяс”
  • Urdu: “کانیاس، لا ریوخا”
  • Uzbek: “Cañas”
  • Venetian: “Cañas (Spagna)”
  • Venetian: “Cañas”
  • Vietnamese: “Cañas, La Rioja”
  • Vietnamese: “Cañas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cañas, Espanya”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Rioja Alta Golf Club and Santo Domingo de la Calzada Cathedral.

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