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
Huétor Vega is a municipality in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE
INE, Ine or ine may refer to:
Institutions
* Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center
* Instituto Nacional de Estad ...
,
Cenes de la Vega
Cenes de la Vega is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2020 census ( INE), the city has a population of 8153 inhabitants.
Geography Orography
Cenes de la Vega has an irregular orography, standing on o ...
,
Pinos Genil,
Güéjar Sierra
Güéjar Sierra is a village and municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the INE, it had a population of 2,988 at the start of 2010. The village is situated in the north-western part of the Sierra Nevada mountain rang ...
,
Dílar,
La Zubia and
Cájar
Cájar is a city located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE
INE, Ine or ine may refer to:
Institutions
* Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center
* Instituto Nacional de Estadística ...
.
Within the municipality of Monachil there are three distinct population centres: the old village, often referred to as Monachil Pueblo, the newer Barrio de la Vega and Pradollano, the resort village at the
Sierra Nevada Ski Station
The Sierra Nevada Ski Station is a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada in the province of Granada in southeastern Spain. The ski area is on the northwestern slopes of Veleta, the third highest peak in Peninsular Spain and the most southerly ski ...
. The ski station hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1996, the
2015 Winter Universiade
The 2015 Winter Universiade, the XXVII Winter Universiade, was a multi sport winter event held in Granada, Spain and Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia. On 14 March 2009, FISU announced that the host would be Granada because they were the only bid.
On 25 J ...
, and the
FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017
The 2017 FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships were held in Sierra Nevada, Spain, from March 6–19, 2017.
Snowboard cross team events for men and women were introduced to the championships schedule for the first time, bringin ...
.
The name Monachil comes from the
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
منستير (''monastir''), a word of
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
origin meaning "monastery".
[José María Calvo Baeza, ''Nombres de lugar españoles de origen árabe'', Madrid: Darek-Nyumba, 1990.]
File:Sierra Nevada Pradollano 3.jpg, Pradollano, Sierra Nevada, Monachil.
File:Monachil en la Vega de Granada.png, Location of Monachil ''(in dark blue)'' relative to the Vega de Granada
The Vega de Granada is a ''comarca'' (county, but with no administrative role) in the province of Granada, southeastern Spain. According to the 2007 census (INE), the comarca has a population of 500,121 inhabitants, which is over half the overa ...
; ''The city of Granada is shown in lighter blue''.
References
External links
Municipalities in the Province of Granada
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