Monachil is a municipality 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 Tropi ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

. As of 2018, it has a population of 7,826 inhabitants. It lies around 8 km from the city of

Granada Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ...

. It borders the municipalities of Huétor Vega, Cenes de la Vega, 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 Dílar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information abo ...

La Zubia La Zubia is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2010 census ( INE), the city has a population of 18,240 inhabitants. Twin towns — sister cities La Zubia is twinned with: * Miercurea Ciuc, Romania See a ...

and Cájar. 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 (Spain), Sierra Nevada in the province of province of Granada, Granada in southeastern Spain. The ski area is on the northwestern slopes of Veleta (Sierra Nevada), Veleta, the thi ...

. The ski station hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1996, the 2015 Winter Universiade, 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, bringing ...

. The name Monachil comes from the

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

منستير (''monastir''), a word of

Greek Greek may refer to: 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 of all kno ...

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 The Sierra Nevada ( ) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primari ...

, Monachil. File:Monachil en la Vega de Granada.png, Location of Monachil ''(in dark blue)'' relative to the Vega de Granada; ''The city of

is shown in lighter blue''.

Notable people

Adrián Butzke Adrián Butzke Benavides (born 30 March 1999) is a Spanish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for club CD Mirandés on loan from Vitória S.C., Vitória de Guimarães. Club care ...

, footballer, born 1999.

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

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