Hotels at Fondón booking.com

Fondón

Booking.com

Fondón

General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -2.8561,Lat: 36.9813
Elevation	825 meter above sea level
Local time	6:10:31am
Name province/region	Andalucía
Name Subregion	Almería
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Fondón

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Fuente Victoria	1.9 km	WestNorthWest
2 Láujar de Andarax	3.6 km	WestNorthWest
3 Almócita	6.3 km	EastNorthEast
4 Beires	6.6 km	EastNorthEast
5 Padules	7.5 km	East

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Gibraltar	Gibraltar	241 km	WestSouthWest
2 Madrid	Spain	389 km	North
3 Lisboa	Portugal	592 km	WestNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is the nearest seacoast with a distance of around 26 km (direction SouthSouthWest).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Andalusia Mediterranean Basins. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de Benínar (1.5 km² at a height of around 366 meter above sea level) at a distance of 17.8 km in WestSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Chullo with a height of 2609 meter (at a distance of 18.2 km and direction NorthWest). The most nearby international border is the Gibraltarian-Spanish border with a straight distance of 239.9 km in WestSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 336 km.
Elevation around place: low mountains: 3%, moderate high mountains: 83%, high mountains: 14%, The hills are mainly northern orientated. The most common land use in the area is nature.

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

Name

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (at a distance of 151 km and direction West).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Almería Airport (at a distance of 46 km in EastSouthEastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

10.1 km2

12.8%

Nature

53.5 km2

68.2%

Agriculture

14.1 km2

17.9%

Urban area

0.4 km2

0.5%

Rock-Sand

0.5 km2

0.6%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Fondón in country Spain

Fondón at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada	Spain	70 km	WestNorthWest
2 Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza	Spain	123 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Antequera Dolmens Site	Spain	151 km	WestNorthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Sierra Nevada	ES	0.3 km	North

Social media - Maps

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

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Fondón

Type of weather in Fondón	few clouds
Current temperature:	13 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	1.52 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	North North West
Air pressure:	1018 mb
Humidity:	47 %
Daylength at 4 May 2024:	13 hour and 49 minutes
Sunrise :	07:13 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:02 Europe/Amsterdam