Cenes de la Vega is a municipality located in the

province of Granada Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea (along the Costa Tropical ...

, Spain. According to the 2020

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses inc ...

( INE), the city has a population of 8153 inhabitants.

Geography

Orography

Cenes de la Vega has an irregular orography, standing on one side of the valley through which the

Genil The Genil River is the main (left) tributary of the river Guadalquivir in Andalusia, Spain. The Roman ''Singilis'', its modern name derives from the Moorish rendering of the Roman name: ''Sinyil, Sannil'', and ''Sinnil''. Route The source of th ...

Crosses, at the hillside of the cerro del oro. The lowest point has an elevation of about 700 meters above sea level, and the highest point is around 1200 meters above the sea level, located in the Purche, where Cenes de la vega borders with the municipality of

Monachil Monachil is a municipality in the province of Granada, Spain. As of 2018, it has a population of 7,826 inhabitants. It lies around 8 km from the city of Granada. It borders the municipalities of Huétor Vega, Cenes de la Vega, Pinos Genil ...

. Cerro del Oro, reach an elevation of about 1020 meters, and it's called like this because under it there is gold

Climate

The climate in Cenes de la Vega is Mediterranean. The summers are hot and dry and the winters are cold and wet. The coolest month is January with an average temperature of 6 °C and the hottest month is July with 25 °C of average temperature.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Granada {{Granada-geo-stub