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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	Southwest
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -15.7269,Lat: 28.0465
Elevation	268 meter above sea level
Local time	20:44:56pm
At island	Gran-canaria
Name province/region	Canarias
Name Subregion	Las Palmas
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Agaete

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Urbanización El Palmeral	6.1 km	NorthEast
2 Puerto de las Nieves	6.2 km	NorthNorthEast
3 Agaete	6.2 km	NorthEast
4 Vecindad de Enfrente	6.2 km	EastNorthEast
5 San Pedro	6.5 km	EastNorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	1301 km	EastNorthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	1303 km	NorthEast
3 Madrid	Spain	1727 km	NorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

El Risco lies at the Atlantic Ocean (direction NorthNorthWest). The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de la Cueva de las Niñas (0.6 km² at a height of around 892 meter above sea level) at a distance of 14.7 km in Southern direction).

The nearest mountain is Moriscos with a height of 1771 meter (at a distance of 11.9 km and direction SouthEast).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Gran Canaria (Fissure vent) at a distance of 15.8 km (direction SouthEast). The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 1247.6 km in NorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 1747 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 0%, low location: 12%, hill: 21%, low mountains: 27%, moderate high mountains: 40%, high mountains: 0%, The hills are mainly northern orientated. The most common land use in the area is nature.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Gran Canaria Airport (at a distance of 37 km and direction SouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna Airport (at a distance of 80 km in NorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

23.1 km2

39.9%

Nature

33.9 km2

58.7%

Agriculture

0.8 km2

1.3%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of El Risco in country Spain

El Risco at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape	Spain	6.6 km	EastSouthEast
2 San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Spain	77 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Teide National Park	Spain	96 km	NorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Tamadaba	ES	0 km	East

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Artenara

Type of weather in Artenara	overcast clouds
Current temperature:	21 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	4.37 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	EastcNorth East
Air pressure:	1015 mb
Humidity:	63 %
Daylength at 6 May 2024:	13 hour and 21 minutes
Sunrise :	08:18 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:40 Europe/Amsterdam