Los Barrios power plant
The Los Barrios Power Plant coal-fired power station is based on the Rankine Cycle. It is located in the municipality of Los Barrios in southern Spain, next to the Gibraltar-San Roque Refinery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Fernando Osuna, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: power plant in the town of Los Barrios (Spain)
- Also known as: “Central Térmica de Los Barrios” and “Los Barrios Power Plant”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Carteia and Playa de Palmones.
Carteia
Photo: Falconaumanni, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carteia was a Phoenician and Roman town at the head of the Bay of Gibraltar in Spain. It was established at the most northerly point of the bay, next to the town of San Roque, about halfway between the modern cities of Algeciras and Gibraltar, overlooking the sea on elevated ground at the confluence of two rivers, nowadays called Guadarranque and Cachon. Carteia is situated 1 km northeast of Los Barrios power plant.
Playa de Palmones
Beach
Photo: Falconaumanni, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Playa de Palmones is a beach, which is situated 1 km southwest of Los Barrios power plant.
San Roque Power Plant
Power station
Photo: HrAd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Roque Power Plant is a power station, which is situated 1½ km northeast of Los Barrios power plant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guadarranque and Guadacorte.
Guadacorte
Quarter
Photo: El Pantera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guadacorte is a village and district of the Spanish municipality of Los Barrios in the Province of Cádiz, Spain, between Gibraltar and Algeciras. It is located eight kilometers east of the main town of the municipality and had a population of 1,113 inhabitants in 2009.
Palmones
Village
Photo: Falconaumanni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palmones is a village on the Bay of Gibraltar between Algeciras and La Linea de la Concepcion in the Province of Cádiz in Spain. The San Roque Refinery and Los Barrios commercial centre lie on either side of the town.
Los Barrios power plant
- Categories: coal-fired power station and industry
- Location: Barrios, Los, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
36.18082° or 36° 10′ 51″ northLongitude
-5.42034° or 5° 25′ 13″ westElevation
13 metres (43 feet)Inception
1985Operator
ViesgoOpen location code
8C8P5HJH+8VOpenStreetMap ID
way 143868547OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Los Barrios power plant” goes by many names.
- French: “centrale thermique de Los Barrios”
- German: “Kraftwerk Los Barrios”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Los Barrios kraftverk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Los Barrios kullkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Los Barrios kullkraftverk”
- Spanish: “Central termica de Los Barrios”
- Spanish: “Central térmica de Los Barrios”
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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 “Los Barrios power plant”. Photo: Fernando Osuna, CC BY 2.0.