Alarcón
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Alarcón is a municipality in the province of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Alarcón
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- Bandera de Alarcón.png
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- Escudo de Alarcón.svg
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- Location of Alarcón in Spain.
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- Hoz del río Júcar en Alarcón 01.jpg
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- General view of Alarcón.
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- 831
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- Spain
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- Country
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- Autonomous community
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- Province
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- 23px|border Cuenca
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- Comarca
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- La Manchuela
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- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Pedro María Párraga Villajos
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 120
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Alarcón
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Cuenca Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 173
- Area
- 120
- Elevation
- 831
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Casas de Benítez
- Official website
- aytoalarcon.blogspot.com
- Image
- Alarcón.jpg
- Licence plate code
- CU
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- Commons category
- Alarcón
- postal code
- 16214
- heritage designation
- bien de interés cultural
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons gallery
- Alarcón
- male population
- 67
- female population
- 81
- P8168
- Thasos
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Demographics
- History
- Notable people
- Government
- Monuments
- Castle of Alarcón
- Church of Santo Domingo de Silos
- Art Center – The Murals of Alarcón; Old Church of San Juan Bautista
- Church of the Santa Trinidad
- Church of Santa María del Campo
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Alarcón is a municipality in the province of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
==Geography== Located 87 kilometers (54 miles) south of the city of Cuenca, Alarcón spans an area of 120 km2 (50 sq mi) at an elevation of 831 meters (2,726 feet). It is situated on a promontory within a closed bend of the Júcar. Not far downstream from the Alarcón Dam, an important reservoir, the town also has the smaller Dam of Henchidero at its doorstep.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alarcón” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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