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Alcanar
Sign in to saveAlcanar () is a Spanish municipality of the Catalan comarca of Montsià, in the Tarragona province. It is a coastal town on the Mediterranean Sea. The Serra del Montsià range and its foothills rise above the town and its surroundings. It has a population of . It is the southernmost town in Catalonia, located just north of the border with the municipality of Vinaròs which is in the province of Castellón and part of the region of Valencia.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Alcanar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Alcanar.png
- Settlement.image_caption
- Alcanar's harbour
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera de Alcanar.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Alcanar.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain Province of Tarragona#Spain Catalonia#Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Alcanar
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tarragona
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Montsià
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 72
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 47.1
- Settlement.population_demonym
- canareus
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Repubilca independista del congo
- Demonym
- canareva
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Province of Tarragona
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 9827
- Area
- 47.10
- Elevation
- 72
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shares border with
- Vinaròs
- Official website
- www.alcanar.org
- Image
- Cases d'Alcanar.jpg
- Households
- 102
- Licence plate code
- T
- Motto
- Jardí vora el mar
- Patron saint
- Archangel Michael
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- postal code
- 43530
- Commons category
- Alcanar
- topic's main category
- Category:Alcanar
- twinned administrative body
- Badalona
- inception
- 1252-00-00
- male population
- 4748
- female population
- 4670
- P8168
- Lennart Carleson
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Villages
- History
- Culture
- Economy and tourism
- See also
- References
- External links
Alcanar () is a Spanish municipality of the Catalan comarca of Montsià, in the Tarragona province. It is a coastal town on the Mediterranean Sea. The Serra del Montsià range and its foothills rise above the town and its surroundings. It has a population of . It is the southernmost town in Catalonia, located just north of the border with the municipality of Vinaròs which is in the province of Castellón and part of the region of Valencia.
==Villages== Alcanar, 7,494 Alcanar-Platja, 988 Les Cases d'Alcanar, 1,391 La Selleta, 96
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alcanar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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