Pinar de Campoverde

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Country Spain
Elevation
160 m (520 ft)
Pinar de Campoverde
Motto: 
Mar y Montaña
(Sea and Mountains)
Pinar de Campoverde is located in Spain
Pinar de Campoverde
Pinar de Campoverde
Location in Spain
Coordinates: 37°54′00″N 0°50′30″W / 37.90000°N 0.84167°W / 37.90000; -0.84167
Country Spain
Autonomous community Valencian Community
ProvinceAlacant
ComarcaVega Baja del Segura
  Alcalde(PP)
Area
  Total
3 km2 (1.2 sq mi)
Elevation
160 m (520 ft)
Population
  Total
3,000
  Density1,000/km2 (2,600/sq mi)
 (approx.)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
03191
Official language(s)Spanish
WebsiteOfficial website

Pinar de Campoverde (Pine Forest in/of the Green Field literally) is a small village located at the foot of the Sierra de Escalona mountain range, nine kilometres from Pilar de la Horadada borough council, in the province of Alicante, Spain. The town has around 3000 inhabitants and is ten kilometres from the Mediterranean coastline.

The town has only developed since the mid-1980s when many British, German, French and Scandinavian expatriates settled in villas. Originally, the area had been a large pine forest, next to the Río Seco river and had little agricultural importance until much of the wooded area was cleared for orange and lemon groves. The name Pinar de Campoverde or Pinar de Campo Verde derives from the fact that the area was once pine woodland (Pinar) and its impression on its first residents was a 'green field' (Campo Verde)

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