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Rota

Naval Station Rota

Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota, is a Spanish naval base, that is jointly used by the Spanish Navy and the United States Navy. Located in Rota in the , NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military community in Spain, housing U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Military installation
  • Description: United States Navy base in Spain
  • Also known as: “Base Naval de Rota”, “LERT”, “Naval Air Station Rota”, “NAVSTA Rota”, “Rota”, “Rota Navy Airport”, and “ROZ”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rota Lighthouse and Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la O (Rota).

Lighthouse
Photo: Joschi71, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 3 km west of Naval Station Rota.

Church
Photo: AMRD, Public domain.
is a church, which is situated 3 km west of Naval Station Rota.

Beach
Photo: El Pantera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a beach, which is situated 3½ km west of Naval Station Rota.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rota and El Puerto de Santa María.

Town
Photo: AMRD, Public domain.
is a municipality and town in the , , Spain. Its surface area is 84 km. It belongs to two associations, the Association of Municipalities of Cádiz Bay along with the municipalities of Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto… is situated 3 km west of Naval Station Rota.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Puerto de Santa Maria is a city of 88,000 people in in the Andalucia region of . It lies on the North-East shore of the Cadiz Bay and is easily reachable from the city of in a short boat trip aboard "El vaporcito"…

Photo: Tango7174, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cadiz is the capital of the Cadiz Province in the Andalucia. is, in most respects, a typically Andalusian city with a wealth of attractive vistas and well-preserved historical landmarks.

Naval Station Rota

Latitude
36.614° or 36° 36′ 50″ north
Longitude
-6.32568° or 6° 19′ 33″ west
Open location code
8C8MJM7F+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39736545
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­military
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­base
Wiki­data ID
Q729530
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Naval Station Rota” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Rotako itsas-basea”
  • Catalan: “Base Naval de Rota”
  • Cebuano: “Naval Station Rota”
  • Chinese: “羅塔海軍基地”
  • Czech: “Námořní základna Rota”
  • French: “base navale de Rota”
  • French: “Base navale de Rota”
  • Galician: “Base Naval de Rota”
  • German: “Marinebasis Rota”
  • Hebrew: “בסיס הצי רוטה”
  • Indonesian: “LERT”
  • Indonesian: “ROZ”
  • Japanese: “ロタ海軍ステーション”
  • Japanese: “ロタ海軍基地”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Rota Navy”
  • Malay: “Stesen Tentera Laut Rota”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marinehavnen Rota (Spania)”
  • Norwegian: “Rota orlogsstasjon”
  • Polish: “Naval Station Rota”
  • Russian: “Рота (ВМБ)”
  • Russian: “Рота”
  • Spanish: “base aeronaval de Rota”
  • Spanish: “Base de Rota”
  • Spanish: “Base Naval de Rota”
  • Spanish: “Estación Naval de Rota”
  • Spanish: “NAVSTA Rota”
  • Spanish: “Rota”
  • Swedish: “Marinbasen Rota”
  • Swedish: “Naval Station Rota”

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