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General information - Location

Country	Spain
Location in country	North
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -5.9445,Lat: 43.5512
Elevation	74 meter above sea level
Local time	20:00:32pm
Name province/region	Principado de Asturias
Name Subregion	Asturias
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Avilés

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Villanueva	0.8 km	SouthSouthWest
2 El Caliero	1.1 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Miranda	1.2 km	South
4 El Barrial	1.5 km	SouthEast
5 L'Alfaraz	1.6 km	SouthSouthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Madrid	Spain	397 km	SouthSouthEast
2 Lisboa	Portugal	594 km	SouthWest
3 Andorra	Andorra	621 km	EastSouthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Bay of Biscay is very close with only a distance of around 3 km (direction North).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named Mino coastal: Narcea, part of the larger catchment area Minho and Lima. The nearest bigger lake (reservoir) is Embalse de la Granda (0.6 km² at a height of around 31 meter above sea level) at a distance of 6.9 km in Eastern direction).

The most nearby international border is the Portugese-Spanish border with a straight distance of 182.9 km in SouthSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 256 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 12%, low location: 86%, hill: 2%, The hills are mainly northern orientated. The surroundings of the place is lightly urbanised. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Santiago-Rosalía de Castro Airport (at a distance of 212 km and direction West).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Asturias Airport (at a distance of 7.4 km in WestNorthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

13.7 km2

18.6%

Nature

1 km2

1.4%

Agriculture

38.1 km2

51.8%

Urban area

16 km2

21.7%

Infrastructure

1 km2

1.3%

Rock-Sand

1 km2

1.3%

Water - Lakes

1.8 km2

2.4%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Heros in country Spain

Heros at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias	Spain	23 km	South
2 Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain	Spain	45 km	WestSouthWest
3 Las Médulas	Spain	137 km	SouthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Cabo Busto-Luanco	ES	3.2 km	North

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Avilés

Type of weather in Avilés	broken clouds
Current temperature:	11 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	3.6 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 3)
Wind direction:	West North West
Air pressure:	1016 mb
Humidity:	87 %
Daylength at 2 May 2024:	14 hour and 12 minutes
Sunrise :	07:14 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:26 Europe/Amsterdam