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Orihuela
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Orihuela () is a city and municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. The city is in one of the few Spanish-speaking areas of the Valencian Community.
Orihuela is a city located in the province of Alicante in southeastern Spain, positioned at the base of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains. It is notable as one of the few areas in the Valencian Community where Spanish is spoken rather than Valencian.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Orihuela
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Conjunto histórico de Orihuela.jpg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera d'Oriola (anvers).png
- Settlement.flag_border
- no
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of arms of Orihuela.svg
- Settlement.motto
- Muy noble, leal y siempre fiel ciudad de Orihuela (English: Very noble, loyal and always faithful city of Orihuela)
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Orihuela
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- Spain Province of Alicante#Spain Valencia#Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Valencian Community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Alicante
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Vega Baja del Segura
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Orihuela
- Demonym
- oriolana
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Vega Baja del Segura
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 84560
- Area
- 365.44
- Elevation
- 23
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Capital of
- Vega Baja del Segura
- Shares border with
- Abanilla
- Official website
- www.orihuela.es
- Image
- Ajuntament i església de les santes Justa i Rufina (Oriola).JPG
- Licence plate code
- A
- Patron saint
- Justa and Rufina
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Orihuela
- native label
- Oriola
- topic's main category
- Category:Orihuela
- Commons category
- Orihuela
- postal code
- 03315
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Orihuela
- twinned administrative body
- Zacatecas
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Orihuela
- Commons gallery
- Orihuela
- owner of
- Estadio Municipal Los Arcos
- female population
- 39054
- male population
- 38360
- P8168
- Joaquín Sorolla
- P12749
- entropy
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- City and suburbs
- Economy
- Main sights
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Orihuela () is a city and municipality located at the foot of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. The city is in one of the few Spanish-speaking areas of the Valencian Community.
The city of Orihuela had a population of 33,943 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. The municipality has an area of 367.19 km2, and stretches all the way down to the Mediterranean coast, west of Torrevieja, and had a total population of 92,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. This includes not only the city of Orihuela, but also the coastal tourist development hub (urbanización turística) of Dehesa de Campoamor with 33,277 inhabitants (2013) and a few other villages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orihuela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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