Gorafe

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Gorafe municipality
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Coat of arms of Gorafe
Gorafe (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Andalusia
Province : Granada
Coordinates 37 ° 29 ′  N , 3 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 29 ′  N , 3 ° 3 ′  W
Height : 855  msnm
Area : 77.14 km²
Residents : 381 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 4.94 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 18890
Municipality number  ( INE ): 18086
administration
Mayor : Miguel Pérez Navarro ( PSOE )
Website : www.gorafe.es
Location of the municipality
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Gorafe is a village and a municipality in Spain in the province of Granada .

Hidden in a valley, it is one of the few places where many families still live in the caves carved into the mountains and hills by the Moors . There is a large collection of megalithic graves around the village . There are 240 megalithic structures in the Parque megalitico de Gorafe within a radius of five kilometers .

Web links

Commons : Gorafe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).