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Spain uses a five digit post code system. The first two digits denote the province and the remaining three denote individual towns or urbanisations within the province.
This system limits the accuracy of the post code system to just 1,000 towns in each province. As such, this system is 500 times less accurate than the one in use in the UK - which can accurately identify a single street within a town.
Additionally, several 'provinces' aren't really provinces at all - yet they share a common post code.
The Balearic islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera are all the same Islas Baleares 'province'. The Canary islands are split into two provinces. Las Palmas 'province' includes the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
The 'province' of Santa Cruz de Tenerife includes the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. Finally, Spain claims two little pieces of North Africa - Ceuta and Melilla are both Spanish provinces, each with their own post code.
To further complicate matters, there are several spoken languages in Spain - Castillian, Catalan, Basque and Gallego. This means that many locations actually have two names in common use - one in the 'local' language and one in Castillian Spanish.
The post office and road sign people just don't keep up with new building and construction in Spain. The result is that the developer will often name the urbanisation - which eventually becomes the name of the 'town'.
As an example, the well-known and established Puerto Banus, near Marbella, doesn't 'officially' exist as far as the post office is concerned. There are almost always colloquial names for towns and urbanisations - sometimes even the 'provisional' name for an urbanisation creeps into the official post office database - we recently spotted three 'towns' simply called 'Golf Course'.
All this means that it's difficult - even for people who live in Spain - to accurately pinpoint an urbanisation or town. That's why every property on Kyero.com is accurately mapped to its nearest town and why we show you the closest airports and schools and coastline and weather patterns.
This system limits the accuracy of the post code system to just 1,000 towns in each province. As such, this system is 500 times less accurate than the one in use in the UK - which can accurately identify a single street within a town.
Additionally, several 'provinces' aren't really provinces at all - yet they share a common post code.
The Balearic islands of Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera are all the same Islas Baleares 'province'. The Canary islands are split into two provinces. Las Palmas 'province' includes the islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
The 'province' of Santa Cruz de Tenerife includes the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. Finally, Spain claims two little pieces of North Africa - Ceuta and Melilla are both Spanish provinces, each with their own post code.
To further complicate matters, there are several spoken languages in Spain - Castillian, Catalan, Basque and Gallego. This means that many locations actually have two names in common use - one in the 'local' language and one in Castillian Spanish.
The post office and road sign people just don't keep up with new building and construction in Spain. The result is that the developer will often name the urbanisation - which eventually becomes the name of the 'town'.
As an example, the well-known and established Puerto Banus, near Marbella, doesn't 'officially' exist as far as the post office is concerned. There are almost always colloquial names for towns and urbanisations - sometimes even the 'provisional' name for an urbanisation creeps into the official post office database - we recently spotted three 'towns' simply called 'Golf Course'.
All this means that it's difficult - even for people who live in Spain - to accurately pinpoint an urbanisation or town. That's why every property on Kyero.com is accurately mapped to its nearest town and why we show you the closest airports and schools and coastline and weather patterns.
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