Pinos Genil

Pinos Genil municipality
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Andalusia
Province :	Granada
Coordinates	37 ° 10 ′  N , 3 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 10 ′  N , 3 ° 30 ′  W
Height :	774  msnm
Area :	14 km²
Residents :	1,457 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	104.07 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	18191
Municipality number  ( INE ):	18157
Location of the municipality

Pinos Genil is a municipality and a village in the province of Granada in southern Spain .

It is only a few kilometers from the provincial capital Granada and can be reached from there via the town of Cenes de la Vega . It is located on the road that goes up to the Sierra Nevada and between the Genil and Aguas Blancas rivers .

The establishment took place in the period before the Arab rule in Spain, even if it was the Arabs who contributed a large part to the agricultural use.

Immediately after the conquest of Granada in 1492 by the Catholic Kings ( Los Reyes Católicos ) in the course of the Reconquista , Columbus traveled through Pinos Genil. While crossing the bridge over the Genil, he received the news that Queen Isabel accepted his terms for the sea voyage to India .

In the 17th century , Enríquez de Jorquera described Pinos Genil as a place of hunting, winter fruit and silk farming.

Today the village consists of many second homes, which can be explained by its close proximity to the city of Granada.

Web links

Commons : Pinos Genil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.pueblos-espana.org

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).