Orihuela
Orihuela is a municipality of over 100,000 people in the Alicante province of the Valencian Community. It is a historic city with many monuments, especially churches.- Type: Town with 32,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Spain
- Also known as: “Origüela”, “Οριχουέλα”, “Ориҳуела”, “Оріола”, “أريولة”, “أورايهويلا”, “أوريويلة”, and “اورايهويلا”
- Postal codes: 03300 and 03317
- Neighbors: Murcia and Torrevieja
Places of Interest
Highlights: Orihuela-Miguel Hernández railway station and Orihuela‘ Bishop Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Redován and Bigastro.
Redován
Village
Redován is a municipality in the comarca of Vega Baja del Segura in the Valencian Community, Spain. Redován is situated 4½ km northeast of Orihuela.
Bigastro
Village
Bigastro is a municipality in the Valencian Community… Bigastro is situated 4½ km southeast of Orihuela.
Hurchillo
Hamlet
Hurchillo is a village in Alicante, Spain. Hurchillo is situated 3½ km southeast of Orihuela.
Orihuela
- Categories: municipality of Spain, municipality of the Valencian Community, and locality
- Location: Alicante, Valencian Community, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.0857° or 38° 5′ 9″ north
Longitude
-0.9449° or 0° 56′ 42″ west
Population
32,000
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ES OHL
Open location code
8CCX33P4+72
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Orihuela” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Orihuela”
- Arabic: “أوريولة”
- Arabic: “أوريويلا”
- Aragonese: “Oriuela”
- Armenian: “Օրիուելա”
- Basque: “Orihuela”
- Catalan: “Oriola”
- Cebuano: “Orihuela (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Orihuela”
- Chechen: “Ориуэла”
- Chinese: “奥里韦拉”
- Chinese: “奧里韋拉”
- Czech: “Orihuela”
- Dagbani: “Orihuela”
- Dutch: “Orihuela”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوريويله”
- Esperanto: “Orihuela”
- Finnish: “Orihuela”
- French: “Orihuela”
- Galician: “Orihuela”
- Georgian: “ორიუელა”
- German: “Orihuela”
- Greek: “Οριουέλα”
- Hebrew: “אוריוולה”
- Hungarian: “Orihuela”
- Indonesian: “Orihuela”
- Interlingua: “Oriola”
- Irish: “Orihuela”
- Italian: “Orihuela”
- Japanese: “オリウエラ”
- Kazakh: “Orïwéla”
- Kazakh: “Ориуела”
- Kazakh: “Ориуэла”
- Kazakh: “ورىيۋەلا”
- Ladin: “Orihuela”
- Latin: “Auraiola”
- Latin: “Aurariola”
- Lithuanian: “Orihuela”
- Lombard: “Orihuela”
- Luxembourgish: “Orihuela”
- Macedonian: “Оривела”
- Malagasy: “Orihuela”
- Malay: “Orihuela”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orihuela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orihuela”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orihuela”
- Norwegian: “Orihuela”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oriola”
- Persian: “اریهوئلا”
- Polish: “Orihuela”
- Portuguese: “Orihuela”
- Romanian: “Orihuela”
- Russian: “Ориуэла”
- Scots: “Orihuela”
- Serbian: “Orivela”
- Serbian: “Оривела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orihuela”
- Silesian: “Orihuela”
- Slovenian: “Orihuela”
- South Azerbaijani: “اریهوئلا”
- Spanish: “Orihuela”
- Swahili: “Orihuela”
- Swedish: “Orihuela”
- Tatar: “Ориуэла”
- Turkish: “Orihuela”
- Ukrainian: “Оріуела”
- Urdu: “اوریہویلا”
- Uzbek: “Orihuela”
- Venetian: “Orihuela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Orihuela”
- Western Panjabi: “اوریہیولا”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Historical District of Orihuela and Barrio Nuevo.
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