Faura

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Faura
Location
Coordinates : 39°43′40″N, 0°15′40″W
Time zone : CET (GMT +1)
- summer : CEST (GMT +2)
General information
Native name Faura (Valencian)
Spanish name Faura
Website [1] Official Website
Administration
Country Spain
Autonomous Community Valencian Community
Province Valencia
Comarca Camp de Morvedre
Geography
Land Area 1.64 km²
Altitude 27 m AMSL
Population
Population 3,127 (2006)
Density 1,907 hab./km² (2006)

Faura is a municipality in the comarca of Camp de Morvedre in the Valencian Community, Spain.

The Catholic guardian of this town is Santa Barbara. During some feast days there is an eventin which the people of Faura will hold a procession for the image of the virgin.

Faura itself lays between orange fields and has an old historic past.