Official Name: | Manzanera, Spain |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Coordinates: | 40.05°N -50°W |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Gúdar-Javalambre |
Area Total Km2: | 168.66 |
Elevation M: | 996 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Manzanera should not be confused with Manzaneda.
Manzanera is a small town and municipality in the province of Teruel, part of the autonomous community of Aragón, Spain. It is in the Gúdar-Javalambre comarca and it has 540 people. It is close to the ski area called Javalambre.
Manzanera is a settlement located in the South of Aragon, at an altitude of 960m (3,150feet) above sea level in the Sierra de Javalambra, where the tallest point of the province is located as well as one of the tallest of the Iberian System, near the Province of Castellón. It enjoys a continental Mediterranean climate with cold winters and mild summers.
The municipality is composed of various settlements besides the main nucleus of Manzanera, these are Los Cerezos, Alcotas, El Paúl, Los Olmos, Las Alhambras, and Paraíso Bajo; as well as some uninhabited neighbourhoods such as Torre de Alcotas, Torre de los Peones, and Paraíso Alto. There are several country houses, called masías, scattered throughout the municipal limits. Manzanera is located about 50km (30miles) from Teruel and 110km (70miles) from Valencia, the nearest highways are the A-23 and N-234, found 10km (10miles) from town.
Through Manzanera flows the River Albentosa, tributary of the River Mijares, formed barely one kilometre before reaching town after the union of the small rivers called Torrijas (which in turn just received the waters from the River Paraíso) and Los Olmos.