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San Roque
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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Andalusia
- Province
- Cádiz
- Founded
- 21 May 1706
- Alcalde
- Juan Carlos Ruiz Boix ( PSOE )
- Total
- 146.88 km (56.71 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 108 m (354 ft)
- Density
- 233.6/km (605.0/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Sanroqueño/a
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Postal code
- 11360, 11310, 11311, 11312, 11313, 11314, 11368, 11369
- Dialing code
- (+34) 956 78 XX XX
- Official language s
- Spanish
- Website
- www .sanroque .es
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Part of
- Campo de Gibraltar
- Named after
- Roch
- Official name
- San Roque
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Cádiz Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 34190
- Area
- 146.88
- Elevation
- 108
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Mediterranean Sea
- Shares border with
- Manilva
- Official website
- sanroque.es
- Image
- San Roque (al fondo, Gibraltar).jpg
- Licence plate code
- CA
- Patron saint
- Roch
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- Commons category
- San Roque
- postal code
- 11360 (San Roque Centro)
- topic's main category
- Category:San Roque, Cádiz
- Commons gallery
- San Roque
- inception
- 1706-05-21
- category of associated people
- Category:People from San Roque, Cádiz
- male population
- 15579
- female population
- 15639
- different from
- San Roque
- P8168
- Krzysztof Kowalewski
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Encyclopedic overview
San Roque is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Cádiz, which in turn is part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is also part of the comarca of Campo de Gibraltar. Located in the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, San Roque is a short way inland of the north side of the Bay of Gibraltar, to the north of the Gibraltar peninsula. The municipality has a total surface of 145 km with a population of approximately 25,500 people, as of 2005.
The foundation of San Roque as a city owes to the creation of a sort of Gibraltar-in-exile by refugees fleeing from the Rock in the wake of its seizure by Anglo-Dutch forces in 1704.
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