Ourense

Ourense is a city in in northwest Spain, with a population of 105,000 in 2024. It's mostly modern and industrial but has a medieval quarter around its cathedral, a stop on the Via de la Plata branch of El Camino pilgrimage trail to Santiago.
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  • Type: City with 98,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Galicia, northwestern Spain
  • Historically known as: “Orance”
  • Postal codes: 32001-32005, 32070, 32071, 32080, 32103, 32915, 32950, 32960, 32970, 32980, 32981, and 32990

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ourense railway station and Ourense Cathedral.

Railway station
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, formerly known as Ourense-Empalme, is the main railway station of Ourense, .

Church
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The is a Roman Catholic church located in Ourense in Galicia. Dedicated to St Martin, it was founded in 550. The first structure was restored by Alonso el Casto.

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is a medieval footbridge built on Roman foundations in Ourense, Spain. Located at the intersection of N120 and Rua Progreso, it spans the Minho River.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include O Couto and As Eiroás.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Ourense

Latitude
42.3436° or 42° 20′ 37″ north
Longitude
-7.8674° or 7° 52′ 3″ west
Population
98,900
Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)
IATA airport code
OUQ
United Nations Location Code
ES ORE
Open location code
8CJJ84VM+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30843230
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3114965
Wiki­data ID
Q99151
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Ourense” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኦረንሴ”
  • Arabic: “أورنسي”
  • Arabic: “أورينسي”
  • Aragonese: “Ourense”
  • Armenian: “Օրենսե”
  • Asturian: “Ourense”
  • Azerbaijani: “Orense”
  • Basque: “Ourense”
  • Belarusian: “Арэнсе”
  • Belarusian: “Арэнсэ”
  • Bengali: “ওরেন্স”
  • Breton: “Ourense”
  • Bulgarian: “Оренсе”
  • Catalan: “Ourense”
  • Cebuano: “Ourense”
  • Chechen: “Оренсе”
  • Chinese: “Ourense”
  • Chinese: “奥伦塞”
  • Chinese: “欧伦塞”
  • Chinese: “歐倫塞”
  • Chinese: “歐倫薩”
  • Czech: “Ourense”
  • Danish: “Ourense”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ourense”
  • Dutch: “Ourense”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورينسى”
  • Esperanto: “Orenso”
  • Esperanto: “Oŭrenso”
  • Finnish: “Ourense”
  • French: “Coyos”
  • French: “Orense”
  • French: “Ourense”
  • Galician: “Ourense”
  • Georgian: “ორენსე”
  • German: “Ourense”
  • Greek: “Οουρένσε”
  • Greek: “Οουρένσι”
  • Greek: “Ορένσε”
  • Guarani: “Ourense”
  • Gujarati: “ઓરેંસે”
  • Hebrew: “אורנסה”
  • Hindi: “ओरेंसे”
  • Hungarian: “Ourense”
  • Icelandic: “Ourense”
  • Indonesian: “Orense”
  • Indonesian: “Ourense”
  • Interlingua: “Ourense”
  • Interlingue: “Ourense”
  • Irish: “Ourense”
  • Italian: “Ourense”
  • Japanese: “オウレンセ”
  • Kannada: “ಓರೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Оренсе”
  • Korean: “오렌세”
  • Korean: “오우렌세”
  • Ladin: “Ourense”
  • Ladino: “Ourense”
  • Latin: “Auria”
  • Latvian: “Orense”
  • Latvian: “Ourense”
  • Ligurian: “Ourense”
  • Lithuanian: “Orensė”
  • Lithuanian: “Ourensė”
  • Lombard: “Ourense”
  • Luxembourgish: “Orense”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ourense”
  • Macedonian: “Оренсе”
  • Malagasy: “Ourense”
  • Malay: “Ourense”
  • Maori: “Ourense”
  • Marathi: “ऑरेन्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ourense”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ourense”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ourense”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ourense”
  • Norwegian: “Ourense”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ourense”
  • Ossetian: “Оренсе”
  • Persian: “دهستان اورنسه”
  • Polish: “Orense”
  • Polish: “Ourense”
  • Portuguese: “Ourense”
  • Romanian: “Ourense”
  • Russian: “Оренсе”
  • Scots: “Ourense”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ourense”
  • Serbian: “Овренсе”
  • Serbian: “Оренсе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ourense”
  • Silesian: “Ourense”
  • Sinhala: “ඕරන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Ourense”
  • Slovenian: “Ourense”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دهستان اورنسه”
  • Spanish: “Orense”
  • Spanish: “Ourense”
  • Swahili: “Ourense”
  • Swedish: “Orense”
  • Swedish: “Ourense”
  • Tamil: “ஓரென்சி”
  • Tatar: “Оренсе”
  • Telugu: “ఔరెంసె”
  • Thai: “โอเรนเซ”
  • Thai: “โอว์แรนเซ”
  • Turkish: “Ourense”
  • Ukrainian: “Оренсе”
  • Urdu: “اورینسے”
  • Venetian: “Ourense”
  • Vietnamese: “Ourense”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ourense”
  • Welsh: “Ourense”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧伦塞”
  • Yue Chinese: “歐倫薩”
  • “Ourense”

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