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La Calahorra
La Calahorra
Municipality
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	La Calahorra Location of La Calahorra in Spain
	Coordinates: 37°10′45″N 3°03′44″W / 37.1791°N 3.0622°W
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Andalusia
Province	Córdoba
Area
• Total	39.45 km2 (15.23 sq mi)
Elevation	1,192 m (3,911 ft)
Population (2018)
• Total	661
• Density	17/km2 (43/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.lacalahorra.es

La Calahorra is a municipality, part of the Comarca de Guadix, located in the middle of the Province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2019 census, the town has a population of 673 inhabitants.^[2]

Nearby, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, is the Castillo de La Calahorra. Built between 1509 and 1512, it is one of the first Italian Renaissance castles outside Italy.^[3]

The town aims to become a site of free-of-light pollution conservation^[4] following the nearby Sierra de los Filabres and Sierra Nevada Starlight Foundation^[5] certification project.

It is well known, as the setting of the final scenes in the 1974 David Essex film Stardust.

Central Termosolar Andasol, a 150-megawatt CSP plant, is located about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 miles) north of the town.

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística
^ "Granada Province - La Calahorra". Andalucia.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
^ Astroturismo
^ Starlight Foundation certification

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[1] Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.

[2] Instituto Nacional de Estadística

[3] "Granada Province - La Calahorra". Andalucia.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2020.

[4] Astroturismo

[5] Starlight Foundation certification

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