Níjar

Nijar is a town of 30,000 people in Andalucia. It is an extremely picturesque, typically Moorish, agricultural town on the South East coastline, close to the breathtaking , 45,663 ha of protected coastal area.
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  • Type: Village with 2,310 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Province of Almería, Andalusia, Spain
  • Also known as: “04066” and “Nijar”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Atalaya de Níjar and Museo Memoria del Agua.

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Museum
Photo: Josef Papi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Huebro and San Isidro de Nijar.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 7 km southeast of Níjar.

Níjar

Latitude
36.9629° or 36° 57′ 46″ north
Longitude
-2.2064° or 2° 12′ 23″ west
Population
2,310
Elevation
301 metres (988 feet)
Open location code
8C8VXQ7V+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4968863749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6355578
Wiki­data ID
Q1110355
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Níjar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نايجار”
  • Arabic: “نيخار”
  • Aragonese: “Níjar”
  • Armenian: “Նիխար”
  • Asturian: “Níjar”
  • Basque: “Nijar”
  • Basque: “Níjar”
  • Breton: “Níjar”
  • Bulgarian: “Нихар”
  • Catalan: “Níjar”
  • Cebuano: “Níjar”
  • Chechen: “Нихар”
  • Chinese: “Níjar”
  • Chinese: “尼哈尔”
  • Chinese: “尼哈爾”
  • Czech: “Níjar”
  • Danish: “Níjar”
  • Dutch: “Nijar”
  • Dutch: “Níjar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نايجار”
  • Esperanto: “Níjar”
  • Finnish: “Níjar”
  • French: “Nijar”
  • French: “Níjar”
  • Galician: “Níjar”
  • Georgian: “ნიხარი”
  • German: “Níjar”
  • Haitian: “Níjar”
  • Hungarian: “Níjar”
  • Interlingua: “Níjar”
  • Interlingue: “Níjar”
  • Irish: “Níjar”
  • Italian: “Níjar”
  • Japanese: “ニハル (スペイン)”
  • Ladin: “Níjar”
  • Lithuanian: “Nicharas”
  • Lombard: “Níjar”
  • Macedonian: “Нијар”
  • Macedonian: “Нихар”
  • Malagasy: “Níjar”
  • Malay: “Níjar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Níjar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Níjar”
  • Norwegian: “Níjar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Níjar”
  • Persian: “نیخار”
  • Polish: “Níjar”
  • Portuguese: “Níjar”
  • Romanian: “Nijar”
  • Romanian: “Níjar”
  • Russian: “Нихар”
  • Serbian: “Нихар”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیخار”
  • Spanish: “Nijar”
  • Spanish: “Níjar”
  • Swedish: “Níjar”
  • Tatar: “Нихар”
  • Turkish: “Nijar”
  • Turkish: “Níjar”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніхар”
  • Uzbek: “Nijar”
  • Uzbek: “Níjar”
  • Uzbek: “Nixar”
  • Uzbek: “Нíжар”
  • Uzbek: “Нихар”
  • Venetian: “Níjar”
  • Vietnamese: “Níjar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Níjar”
  • “Níjar”

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