San Juan de Aznalfarache is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain. According to the 2006

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), the city has a population of 20,121 inhabitants. Despite being a separate municipality, San Juan is in the metropolitan area of Seville, to which it lies on an opposite bank of the

Guadalquivir The Guadalquivir (, also , , ) is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is the only major navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable from the Gul ...

river. The city is linked by two road bridges and a pedestrian one to the Sevillian district of Triana on the

Isla de La Cartuja ''Isla de la Cartuja'' (; ) is an island in the Guadalquivir River at Seville, Spain. The island's name derives from the cloistered monastery (Cartuja) located on the site, the '' Monasterio de Santa María de las Cuevas'', where Cristopher Colu ...

. San Juan lies to the north of

Gelves Gelves is a city located in the Seville (province), province of Seville, in Andalusia, Spain. According to the 2006 census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), INE), the city has a population of 8,325 inhabitants. It lies on the west ban ...

, northeast of

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and south of

Tomares Tomares is a municipality in Andalusia, southern Spain. It is a Seville suburb of over 25,000 inhabitants situated two kilometers west of Triana District of Seville, separated from the city by River Guadalquivir. It is surrounded by other munic ...

, which all also make up Seville's metropolitan area. The city's name refers to the Fortress of Alfaraj ( ar: حصن الفرج), a known site for muslim historians, which was likely built under the

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but better known by the palace built by Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad in the 11th century

Notable people

* El Sevilla (born 1970), actor and singer

References

External links

San Juan de Aznalfarache
- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía Municipalities of the Province of Seville {{Andalusia-geo-stub