Spanish Language Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, teachers, students and Spanish language enthusiasts in general wanting to discuss the finer points of the language. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I have a problem with the preposición of the adjective "situado" I stumbled across the two sentences:
But meanwhile, I also found:
Could anyone explain why we use different preposiciones in 1. and 2.? Thanks in advance
The phrase estar situado usually goes with en, as en usually denotes location and a usually denotes movement. For example, one would say
But expressions with the cardinal points (norte, sur, este, oeste) are an exception, where al sur de can be used to mean (in the) south of, even if it implies no movement. As explained by Fundéu, al sur de can mean either "south of, but outside" or "south of, but inside". In the second case (which is the one in your example), using en el sur de is also valid and even preferred to avoid ambiguity.
situado a usually means that whatever is located roughly, more or less... example 'situado a tres metros de la playa', even if it says 3m, it is a rough estimate.
en usually means that the indication is more precise
