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Roquetas de Mar

Roquetas de Mar is in Almeria. This is a low-key tourist resort town on the Mediterranean coast of , about 18 km from the provincial capital city of Almeria.
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  • Type: Town with 50,900 residents
  • Description: municipality of Spain
  • Postal codes: 04710 and 04740

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castillo de Santa Ana and Roquetas de Mar Lighthouse.

Castle
Photo: Informagico, CC BY-SA 3.0 es.
The , also known as Castillo de Las Roquetas, is a fortification built between the 16th and 17th centuries, located in the town of Roquetas de Mar which was used as a refuge for the inhabitants who lived near the port.

Lighthouse
Photo: AquariaNR, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.

Theater building
Photo: Luispihormiguero, Public domain.
is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Mojonera and Aguadulce.

Village
Photo: Miguel.guadalinfo.lamojonera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of , Spain. is situated 7 km west of Roquetas de Mar.

Town
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is a Spanish town in the municipality of Roquetas de Mar, , in the autonomous community of Andalucía. It is located in the region of Poniente Almeriense, about 14 kilometres from the city of , along the national road and… is situated 7 km northeast of Roquetas de Mar.

Roquetas de Mar

Latitude
36.763° or 36° 45′ 47″ north
Longitude
-2.6116° or 2° 36′ 42″ west
Population
50,900
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ES RQM
Open location code
8C8VQ97Q+69
Open­Street­Map ID
node 279235745
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2511716
Wiki­data ID
Q499184
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Roquetas de Mar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روكويتاس دي مار”
  • Aragonese: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Armenian: “Ռոկետաս դե Մար”
  • Asturian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Basque: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Belarusian: “Рокетас-дэ-Мар”
  • Breton: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Bulgarian: “Рокетас де Мар”
  • Catalan: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Cebuano: “Roquetas de Mar (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Chechen: “Рокетас-де-Мар”
  • Chinese: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Chinese: “滨海罗克塔斯”
  • Chinese: “罗克塔斯德马尔”
  • Chinese: “羅克塔斯德馬爾”
  • Czech: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Danish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Dutch: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روكويتاس دى مار”
  • Esperanto: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Finnish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • French: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • French: “Roquetas”
  • Galician: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Georgian: “როკეტას-დე-მარი”
  • German: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Haitian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Hebrew: “רוקטאס דה מאר”
  • Hungarian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Indonesian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Interlingua: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Interlingue: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Irish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Italian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Japanese: “ロケタス・デ・マル”
  • Korean: “로케타스데마르”
  • Ladin: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Lithuanian: “Roketas de Mar”
  • Lombard: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Macedonian: “Рокетас де Мар”
  • Malagasy: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Malay: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Norwegian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Persian: “رکتاس د مار”
  • Polish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Portuguese: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Romanian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Russian: “Рокетас-де-Мар”
  • Serbian: “Roketas de Mar”
  • Serbian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Serbian: “Рокетас де Мар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رکتاس د مار”
  • Spanish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Swahili: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Swedish: “Roquetas de Mar (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Tatar: “Рокетас-де-Мар”
  • Turkish: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Ukrainian: “Рокетас-де-Мар”
  • Uzbek: “Roketas de Mar”
  • Uzbek: “Roketas-de-Mar”
  • Uzbek: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Uzbek: “Рокетас-де-Мар”
  • Uzbek: “Роқуетас де Мар”
  • Venetian: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Vietnamese: “Roquetas de Mar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Roquetas de Mar”

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