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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Andalusia
- Province
- Granada
- Comarca
- Vega de Granada
- Total
- 39 km (15 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 677 m (2,221 ft)
- Density
- 600/km (1,600/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Part of
- Vega de Granada
- Official name
- Gabias, Las
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Province of Granada
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 23584
- Area
- 39
- Elevation
- 677
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Santa Fe
- Official website
- www.lasgabias.es
- Image
- Iglesia de la Encarnación (Gabia Grande, Granada).jpg
- Licence plate code
- GR
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- Commons category
- Las Gabias
- postal code
- 18110
- twinned administrative body
- Tenjo
- male population
- 10738
- female population
- 10377
- P8168
- Radomir Antić
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Encyclopedic overview
Las Gabias (commonly referred to as Gabia) is a Spanish city and municipality located in the central southern part of the Vega of Granada, in the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, approximately 8 km from the provincial capital of Granada. It borders the municipalities of Vegas del Genil, Cúllar Vega, Churriana de la Vega, Alhendín, La Malahá, Chimeneas and Santa Fe. Las Gabias includes the localities of "Gabia Grande", the municipal capital, and "Gabia Chica" that were a unified with the region in 1973, in addition to the annexation of Híjar, Los Llanos, Pedro Verde and San Javier. The name may have originated from Hisn Caviar, which means "military tower", in allusion to the one that still exists in Gabia Grande. It is one of the most populous municipalities in Spain as well as one of the youngest, with the median age of inhabitants being only 34.3 years of age. In 2016, the population of Las Gabias surpassed 20,000, making it the third most populous municipality in the Granada Metropolitan Area, surpassed only by Granada and Armilla.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Las Gabias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.