Almegíjar
Sign in to saveAlmegíjar is a Spanish village and municipality located in the province of Granada, Andalusia. According to the 2005 census (INE), it has a population of 435 inhabitants.
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- Almegíjar
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- Escudo de Almegíjar (Granada).svg
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- Cortijada en la Contraviesa I.JPG
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- An abandoned Cortijada in the Sierra de la Contraviesa, near Almegíjar
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- Location of Almegíjar
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- Country
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- Aut. community
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- Province
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- Granada
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- Comarca
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- Alpujarra Granadina
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- Judicial district
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- Órgiva
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- 30
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 812
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- auto
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- CET
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Almegíjar is a Spanish village and municipality located in the province of Granada, Andalusia. According to the 2005 census (INE), it has a population of 435 inhabitants.
==Overview== It is situated at over 800 metres above sea level, on the southern slopes of the Sierra Morena, a spur of Mulhacen, the highest mountain in Spain. Before the Spanish Civil War in 1935, the church was burned by anarchists and during the war it was just behind the republican front lines; the remains of trenches can still be seen up the mountain. These trenches represents the furthest advance of the Fascists into Las Alpujarras after they took Granada.