Buñol

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Buñol

Location

Coordinates : 39°25′10″N, 0°47′26″W
Time Zone : CET (GMT +1)
- summer: CEST (GMT +2)

General information

Native name

Buñol (Spanish)

Spanish name

Buñol

Administration

Country

Spain

Autonomous Community

Valencian Community

Province

Valencia

Comarca

Hoya de Buñol

Geography

Land Area

112.40 km²

Altitude

441 m AMSL

Population

Population

9,571 (2006)

Density

85.2 hab./km² (2006)

Buñol (in Valencian orthography: Bunyol) is a town and municipality in the province of Valencia, Spain. The municipality has an area of some 112 km², and is situated approximately 38 km west of the provincial and autonomous community capital city, Valencia. It lies along the Buñol River and is surrounded by the mountain ranges La Sierra de Las Cabrillas, la Sierra de Dos Aguas and la Sierra de Malacara y Martés.

The municipal local economic base is a mixture of the industrial and the agricultural (Carob trees, almond trees, fruit trees, olive trees and grapes.)

Archaeological evidence indicates civilization in Buñol going back 50,000 years^{[citation needed]}. Buñol's population is about 9,000 people [1] but swells to over 30,000 for La Tomatina (held annually on the last Wednesday in August).

Buñol has regional rail passenger service to Valencia via the RENFE system.

The city was popularized in the later half of the past century by a tomato throwing event in the Plaza del Pueblo. On the last Wednesday of every August, thousands of people gather in the Plaza and throw hundreds of thousands of pounds of tomatoes at one another.