Arucas

Arucas is a municipality in the northern part of the island of , province of Las Palmas, . Arucas borders to the west and is part of its urban area.
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  • Type: Locality with 36,800 residents
  • Description: municipality of Spain
  • Also known as: “35006” and “Arucas, Las Palmas”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of San Juan Bautista and Jardin de la Marquesa de Arucas.

Church
Photo: Mataparda, CC BY 3.0.
The or Arucas Church, is a Catholic church located in the old town of Arucas, in , , . Construction began on 19 March 1909, and took over 68 years.

Garden
Photo: Jayen466, Public domain.
is a garden.

Work of art
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a work of art.

Arucas

Latitude
28.135° or 28° 8′ 6″ north
Longitude
-15.5173° or 15° 31′ 2″ west
Population
36,800
Elevation
150 metres (492 feet)
Open location code
7CW64FPM+23
Geo­Names ID
6360176
Wiki­data ID
Q716384
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Arucas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أروكاس”
  • Aragonese: “Arucas”
  • Armenian: “Արուկաս”
  • Asturian: “Arucas”
  • Basque: “Arucas”
  • Catalan: “Arucas (Gran Canaria)”
  • Catalan: “Arucas (Gran Canària)”
  • Catalan: “Arucas (Las Palmas)”
  • Catalan: “Arucas”
  • Cebuano: “Arucas”
  • Chechen: “Арукас”
  • Chinese: “阿魯卡斯”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁卡斯”
  • Dagbani: “Arucas”
  • Danish: “Arucas”
  • Dutch: “Arucas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اروكاس”
  • Esperanto: “Arucas”
  • Finnish: “Arucas”
  • French: “Arucas”
  • Galician: “Arucas”
  • Georgian: “არუკასი”
  • German: “Arucas”
  • Hebrew: “ארוקאס”
  • Hungarian: “Arucas”
  • Interlingua: “Arucas”
  • Irish: “Arucas”
  • Italian: “Arucas”
  • Japanese: “アルーカス (ラス・パルマス)”
  • Ladin: “Arucas”
  • Latin: “Arucas”
  • Lithuanian: “Arukas”
  • Lithuanian: “Arukasas”
  • Lombard: “Arucas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Arucas”
  • Malagasy: “Arucas”
  • Malay: “Arucas, Las Palmas”
  • Malay: “Arucas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arucas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arucas, Las Palmas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arucas”
  • Norwegian: “Arucas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arucas”
  • Polish: “Arucas”
  • Portuguese: “Arucas”
  • Russian: “Арукас”
  • Serbian: “Арукас”
  • Slovenian: “Arucas, Gran Canaria”
  • Slovenian: “Arucas”
  • Spanish: “Arucas”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵔⵓⴽⴰⵙ”
  • Swedish: “Arucas, Las Palmas”
  • Swedish: “Arucas”
  • Tachelhit: “Arukas”
  • Tatar: “Арукас”
  • Turkish: “Arucas”
  • Ukrainian: “Арукас”
  • Urdu: “اروکاس، لاس پالماس”
  • Uzbek: “Arucas”
  • Uzbek: “Arukas”
  • Uzbek: “Арукас”
  • Venetian: “Arucas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arucas”

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