Chiva, Valencia

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Chiva
Municipality
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Chiva Location in Spain
Coordinates: 39°28′17″N 0°43′11″W / 39.47139°N 0.71972°W / 39.47139; -0.71972
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Valencian Community
Province	Valencia
Comarca	Hoya de Buñol
Judicial district	Chiva
Government
• Alcalde	Emilio Morales Gaitán (2015) (Compromís)
Area
• Total	178.7 km2 (69.0 sq mi)
Elevation	270 m (890 ft)
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	14,941
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Demonym	Chivano/a
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	46370
Official language(s)	Spanish
Website	Official website

Chiva is a municipality in the comarca of Hoya de Buñol in the Valencian Community, Spain. It has a population of 16 750 inhabitants (INE 2023). It is a Spanish-speaking town, in which Spanish has the legally recognised linguistic predominance compared to Valencian, co-official regional language of the Valencian Community. Part of the Hoya de Buñol region, it is located 31 kilometres inland following the A3 Highway from the capital of Valencia in direction towards Madrid.

Chiva has the largest municipal park in Valencia; the mountainous Paraje Natural Municipal Sierra de Chiva, with a surface area of more than 5,500 ha.. This enclave is considered to have ecological, scenic and cultural significance, for which it justified its status as a protected area.^[2]