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Lorca, Spain. Lorca (Spanish: [ˈloɾka] ⓘ) is a municipality and city in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia in south-eastern Spain, 58 kilometres (36 mi) southwest of the city of Murcia. The municipality had a population of 95,515 in 2020, up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca is the municipality with the second ...
The Region of Murcia (/ ˈmʊərsiə /, US also / ˈmɜːrʃ (i) ə /; [4][5][6] Spanish: Región de Murcia [reˈxjon de ˈmuɾθja]; Valencian: Regió de Múrcia) is an autonomous community of Spain located in the southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Mediterranean coast. The region is 11,313 km 2 (4,368 sq mi) in area and had a ...
Castle of Lorca (Spanish: Castillo de Lorca) in Lorca, Murcia, Spain, is a fortress of medieval origin constructed between the 9th and 15th centuries.It consists of a series of defensive structures that, during the Middle Ages, made the town and the fortress an impregnable point in the southeast part of the Iberian Peninsula.
List of municipalities in the Region of Murcia. This is a list of the 45 municipalities in the province and autonomous community of Murcia, Spain, with their land areas and their populations at the Censuses of 2001, 2011 and 2021. Name. Area. (km 2 )
Murcia. Murcia (/ ˈmʊərsiə /, US also / ˈmɜːrʃ (i) ə /; [5][6][7] Spanish: [ˈmuɾθja] ⓘ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, [8] the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, [9] and the seventh largest city in the country. It had a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 [10] (about one ...
Totana is a municipality in the Region of Murcia in Spain. It has a population of 32008. The local economy is largely dependent on agriculture and related industries. It has a railway station providing a service on the Cercanías Murcia/Alicante commuter line, providing connections to Alicante and Murcia .
The 2011 Lorca earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Lorca de 2011) was a moderate 5.1 Mw[ 2] earthquake that occurred 6:47 p.m. CEST (16:47 UTC) on 11 May 2011, [ 7] near the town of Lorca, causing significant localized damage in the Region of Murcia, Spain, and panic among locals, and displacing many from their homes.
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...