Hotels at Cáñar booking.com

Cáñar

Booking.com

Cáñar

General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -3.4277,Lat: 36.9261
Elevation	976 meter above sea level
Local time	23:31:34pm
Name province/region	Andalucía
Name Subregion	Granada
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Cáñar

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Carataunas	1.7 km	EastSouthEast
2 Soportújar	2 km	East
3 Órgiva	2.8 km	South
4 Cortijo la Rehoya	3.5 km	SouthSouthEast
5 Lanjarón	4.9 km	West

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	192 km	WestSouthWest
2 Madrid	Spain	388 km	North
3 Lisboa	Portugal	547 km	NorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 22 km (direction SouthSouthEast).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Andalusia Mediterranean Basins. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de Rules (4.7 km² at a height of around 249 meter above sea level) at a distance of 5.4 km in SouthSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Pico Veleta with a height of 3398 meter (at a distance of 15.3 km and direction NorthNorthEast). The most nearby international border is the Gibraltarian-Spanish border with a straight distance of 190.6 km in WestSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 267 km.
Elevation around place: hill: 17%, low mountains: 25%, moderate high mountains: 31%, high mountains: 28%, The hills are mainly southern orientated. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name
Sierra Nevada

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (at a distance of 100 km and direction West).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

13.3 km2

16.9%

Nature

30.9 km2

39.3%

Agriculture

33.9 km2

43.1%

Urban area

0.5 km2

0.7%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Cáñar in country Spain

Cáñar at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada	Spain	32 km	NorthNorthWest
2 Antequera Dolmens Site	Spain	101 km	WestNorthWest
3 Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza	Spain	120 km	North

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Sierra Nevada	ES	0.5 km	SouthWest

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Cáñar
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Cáñar
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Cáñar

Type of weather in Cáñar	clear sky
Current temperature:	13 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	4.86 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	North North East
Air pressure:	1016 mb
Humidity:	62 %
Daylength at 6 May 2024:	13 hour and 53 minutes
Sunrise :	07:13 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:06 Europe/Amsterdam