El Rocio
El Rocio is a village in Huelva Province in Andalucia. This village has three unusual characteristics: its annual pilgrimage or rosario that takes place at Pentecost; its stunning position at the very edge of a large expanse of water where there are many species of waterfowl together with marsh mares and cattle wading through the shallow water; and its streets covered in sand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Quinok, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Village with 1,540 residents
- Description: human settlement in Almonte, Huelva Province, Andalusia, Spain
- Also known as: “El Rocío” and “El Rocío,”
- Postal code: 21750
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hermitage of El Rocío and Visitors center La Rocina.
Hermitage of El Rocío
Church
Photo: MJJR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hermitage of El Rocío is a hermitage at El Rocío in the countryside of Almonte, Province of Huelva, Andalusia, Spain. The hermitage is home to the Virgin of El Rocío, a small, much-venerated carved wood statue, and is the destination of an annual…
Visitors center La Rocina
Tourism office
Photo: El Pantera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visitors center La Rocina is a tourism office.
El Rocio
- Categories: locality and administrative territorial entity
- Location: Almonte, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.1338° or 37° 8′ 2″ northLongitude
-6.4812° or 6° 28′ 52″ westPopulation
1,540Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
8C9M4GM9+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 248483798OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2518157Wikidata ID
Q3277375
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“El Rocio” goes by many names.
- Basque: “El Rocío”
- Catalan: “El Rocío (llogaret)”
- Catalan: “El Rocío”
- Chinese: “埃爾羅西奧”
- Dutch: “El Rocío”
- Esperanto: “El Rocío”
- French: “El Rocío”
- Galician: “El Rocío”
- German: “El Rocío”
- Japanese: “エル・ロシーオ”
- Persian: “ال روسیو”
- Slovenian: “El Rocío”
- Spanish: “aldea del Rocío”
- Spanish: “El Rocio”
- Spanish: “El Rocío”
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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 Wikivoyage page “El Rocio”. Photo: Olea, CC BY 4.0.