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Murcia

Lorca

Lorca is the third most populated city in the , inhabited by approximately 93,000 people. Placed inland, it's a baroque and renaissance city overlooked by its castle.
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  • Type: Town with 63,600 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Region of Murcia, Spain
  • Also known as: “Lorca, Spain”
  • Postal codes: 30800, 30813, and 30815
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of Lorca and Lorca-Sutullena railway station.

Park
Photo: Jose Lorca, Public domain.
in Lorca, , , is a fortress of medieval origin constructed between the 9th and 15th centuries. It consists of a series of defensive structures that, during the Middle Ages, made the town and the fortress an impregnable point in the southeast part of the .

Railway station
Photo: Panxitofeliz, CC BY 2.5 es.
is a station in Lorca, Spain. It was damaged in the 2011 Lorca earthquake. It is primarily served by Cercanías Murcia/Alicante line C-2.

Museum
Photo: Murcianboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sutullena.

Neighborhood
Photo: Falk2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was a village in Murcia, and is now a southern hamlet in the city of Lorca. It is part of the municipality of Lorca. is located adjacent to the hamlets of Tiata, Campillo and Torrecilla.

Lorca

Latitude
37.6712° or 37° 40′ 16″ north
Longitude
-1.6989° or 1° 41′ 56″ west
Population
63,600
Elevation
339 metres (1,112 feet)
IATA airport code
XJR
United Nations Location Code
ES LQA
Open location code
8C9WM8C2+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304873309
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2514891
Wiki­data ID
Q47571
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Lorca” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lorca, Spanjë”
  • Albanian: “Lorca”
  • Arabic: “لرقة”
  • Arabic: “لورقة”
  • Arabic: “لوركا، مرسية”
  • Arabic: “لوركا”
  • Aragonese: “Lorca”
  • Armenian: “Լորկա”
  • Asturian: “Lorca”
  • Basque: “Lorca”
  • Basque: “Lorka”
  • Belarusian: “Лорка (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Лорка”
  • Breton: “Llorca”
  • Bulgarian: “Лорка”
  • Catalan: “Llorca”
  • Cebuano: “Lorca”
  • Chinese: “Lorca”
  • Chinese: “洛尔卡 (西班牙)”
  • Chinese: “洛尔卡”
  • Chinese: “洛爾卡”
  • Czech: “Lorca”
  • Danish: “Lorca”
  • Dutch: “Lorca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوركا, مرسيه”
  • Esperanto: “Lorko”
  • Finnish: “Lorca”
  • French: “Lorca”
  • Galician: “Lorca”
  • Georgian: “ლორკა (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “ლორკა”
  • German: “Lorca”
  • Greek: “Λόρκα”
  • Hebrew: “לורקה”
  • Hungarian: “Lorca”
  • Indonesian: “Lorca”
  • Interlingua: “Lorca (Espania)”
  • Interlingua: “Lorca”
  • Irish: “Lorca”
  • Italian: “Lorca”
  • Japanese: “ロルカ”
  • Korean: “로르카”
  • Korean: “스페인 로르카”
  • Ladin: “Lorca”
  • Ladino: “Lorka”
  • Latvian: “Lorka”
  • Lithuanian: “Lorka”
  • Lombard: “Lorca”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lorca”
  • Macedonian: “Лорка”
  • Malagasy: “Lorca”
  • Malay: “Lorca”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lorca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lorca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lorca”
  • Norwegian: “Lorca”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lorca”
  • Ossetian: “Лоркæ (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Лоркæ”
  • Persian: “لرکا”
  • Polish: “Lorca”
  • Portuguese: “Lorca”
  • Romanian: “Lorca”
  • Russian: “Лорка”
  • Serbian: “Лорка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lorca, Španija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lorca, Španjolska”
  • Slovak: “Lorca”
  • Slovenian: “Lorca”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لرکا”
  • Spanish: “Ilorci”
  • Spanish: “Lorca”
  • Spanish: “Lurqa”
  • Swahili: “Lorca, Hispania”
  • Swedish: “Lorca”
  • Tatar: “Лорка”
  • Turkish: “Lorca”
  • Ukrainian: “Лорка”
  • Venetian: “Lorca”
  • Vietnamese: “Lorca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lorca”
  • “Lorca”

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