Candanchú
Candanchú is a ski resort situated near the town of Canfranc in the High Aragon of the western Pyrenees, in the province of Huesca, Spain. The name of the area is an adaptation of the French "Camp d'Anjou", as it was originally the site of a military camp of the French Angevin dynasty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 89 residents
- Description: ski resort in Spain
- Also known as: “Candanchu” and “Candanchú ski resort”
- Postal code: 22889
Places of Interest
Highlights include Somport and Hospital de Somport.
Somport
Photo: CHV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Somport is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain. It lies on the French Way of the Way of St. James. The pass is the end of the Via Tolosana and the starting point of the Aragonese Way. The elevation is 1,632 m.
Hospital de Somport
Protected area
Photo: CHV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hospital de Somport is a protected area.
Fuerte de Coll de Ladrones
Fort
Photo: JavierMunozF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fuerte de Coll de Ladrones is a fort, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Candanchú.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canfranc-Estación and Canfranc.
Canfranc-Estación
Village
Photo: Lozano Manzanedo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canfranc-Estación is a village, which is situated 4 km south of Candanchú.
Canfranc
Photo: France64160, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canfranc is in Aragon, Spain. It consists of two villages, the original village, which has fewer than 100 residents, and Canfranc Estación, which developed with the establishment of Canfranc international railway station to serve railway traffic across the Pyrenees.
Candanchú
- Categories: ski resort and locality
- Location: Aisa, Huesca, Aragon, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.78536° or 42° 47′ 7″ northLongitude
-0.52665° or 0° 31′ 36″ westPopulation
89Elevation
1,526 metres (5,007 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES KCHOpen location code
8CJXQFPF+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 251164135OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Candanchú” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاندانتشو”
- Aragonese: “Candanchú”
- Basque: “Candanchú”
- Basque: “Kandantxu”
- Catalan: “Candanchú”
- Cebuano: “Candanchú ski resort”
- Dutch: “Candanchú”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منتجع كاندانشو للتزلج”
- French: “Candanchú”
- Galician: “Candanchú”
- German: “Candanchú”
- Hungarian: “Candanchú”
- Japanese: “カンダンチュ”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Camp d’Anjau”
- Romanian: “Candanchú”
- Spanish: “Candanchu”
- Spanish: “Candanchú”
- Swedish: “Candanchú ski resort”
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Highlights include Iglesia de Candanchú and Fuente Usla.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Candanchú”. Photo: Willtron, CC BY-SA 4.0.