Guadalcanal (Seville)
Guadalcanal municipality | ||
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coat of arms | Map of Spain | |
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : | Andalusia | |
Province : | Seville | |
Comarca : | Sierra Norte de Seville | |
Coordinates | 38 ° 5 ′ N , 5 ° 49 ′ W | |
Height : | 662 msnm | |
Area : | 275 km² | |
Residents : | 2,627 (Jan 1, 2019) | |
Population density : | 9.55 inhabitants / km² | |
Postal code : | 41390 | |
Municipality number ( INE ): | 41048 | |
administration | ||
Mayor : | Jesús Manuel Martínez Nogales | |
Website : | www.guadalcanal.es |
Guadalcanal is a Spanish municipality in Andalusia in the province of Seville , 110 kilometers north of the city of Seville .
The community has 2627 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). It is the birthplace of the seafarer Pedro de Ortega , who named the Solomonic island of Guadalcanal after her in 1568 .
The name of the community comes from the Arabic name Wadi al-Qanal /وادي القنال / Wādī l-Qanāl .
Web links
Commons : Guadalcanal - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).