Place:Orihuela, Alicante, Valencia, Spain

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NameOrihuela
Alt namesOriolasource: Wikipedia
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates38.083°N 0.933°W
Located inAlicante, Valencia, Spain
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Orihuela is a city and municipality located at the feet of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains in the province of Alicante, Spain. The city of Orihuela had a population of 33,943 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. The municipality has a total area of 367.19 km2, and stretches all the way down to the Mediterranean coast, west of Torrevieja, and had a total population of 92,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. This includes not only the city of Orihuela, but also the coastal tourist development hub (urbanización turística) of Dehesa de Campoamor with 33,277 inhabitants (2013) and a few other villages.[1]

The river Segura flows through Orihuela. The city was settled by Romans who called it Orcelis and subsequently Aurariola.

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