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Municipality in Andalusia, Seville, Spain

Key facts

Country
Spain
Autonomous community
Andalusia
Province
Seville
Comarca
Sierra Norte de Sevilla
Total
2,544

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Official website

Ayuntamiento de Guadalcanal

Portada principal del portal

guadalcanal.es

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Guadalcanal
Country
Spain
Continent
Europe
Population
2544
Area
275
Elevation
762
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Alanís
Official website
guadalcanal.es
Image
Iglesia de Santa Ana y entorno.jpg
Licence plate code
SE
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postal code
41390
Commons category
Guadalcanal (Sevilla)
topic's main category
Category:Guadalcanal (Sevilla)
male population
1316
female population
1311
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Encyclopedic overview

Guadalcanal ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaðalkaˈnal]) is a village in the province of Seville, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

The name was given to the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1568. The name was chosen by Pedro de Ortega Valencia who had been born in the village. He was a subordinate of Spanish explorer and navigator Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guadalcanal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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