Forua
Forua is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.Photo: Txo, Public domain.
- Type: Residential area
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “48906”
- Neighbors: Guernica
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gernikako Arbola and Urdaibai Bird Center.
Gernikako Arbola
Monument
Photo: Papamanila, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gernikako Arbola is an oak tree that symbolizes traditional freedoms for the Biscayan people, and by extension for the Basque people as a whole. It is located in Gernika, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
Urdaibai Bird Center
Museum
Photo: UrdaibaiBirdCenter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Urdaibai Bird Center is a nature museum. It provides an excellent observation point from which visitors can enjoy the world of birds and their migratory journeys.
Museo de la Paz de Guernica
Museum
Photo: TheFaico, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museo de la Paz de Guernica is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guernica and Arratzu.
Guernica
Photo: Papamanila, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guernica is a Basque town known for its Monday market day which has for decades been considered as a holiday in the town. Airborne bombing by the German Condor Legion in support of Spanish fascists in 1937 destroyed much of Guernica's old town, but several parts were spared and many were rebuilt.
Arratzu
Village
Photo: Euskalduna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arratzu is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain.
Kortezubi
Village
Photo: Jsanchezes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kortezubi is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain. It has 444 inhabitants.
Forua
- Category: municipality of Spain
- Location: Biscay, Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.3342° or 43° 20′ 3″ northLongitude
-2.6766° or 2° 40′ 36″ westPopulation
969Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
8CMV88MF+M9OpenStreetMap ID
way 218664182OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
6362440Wikidata ID
Q679513
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Forua” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوروا”
- Aragonese: “Forua”
- Armenian: “Ֆորուա”
- Asturian: “Forua”
- Basque: “Forua”
- Breton: “Forua”
- Catalan: “Forua”
- Cebuano: “Forua”
- Chechen: “Форуа”
- Chinese: “福鲁阿”
- Dutch: “Forua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوروا”
- French: “Forua”
- Galician: “Forua”
- Georgian: “ფორუა”
- German: “Forua”
- Hungarian: “Forua”
- Interlingua: “Forua”
- Irish: “Forua”
- Italian: “Forua”
- Japanese: “フォルア”
- Ladin: “Forua”
- Latin: “Forua”
- Lombard: “Forua”
- Luxembourgish: “Forua”
- Malay: “Forua”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forua”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forua”
- Polish: “Forua”
- Portuguese: “Forua”
- Russian: “Форуа”
- Scots: “Forua”
- Spanish: “Forua”
- Spanish: “Forúa”
- Swedish: “Forua”
- Tatar: “Форуа”
- Turkish: “Forua”
- Ukrainian: “Форуа”
- Uzbek: “Fórua”
- Venetian: “Forua”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forua”
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