Manuel is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera Alta, in the Valencian Community of Spain. It is located in the province of Valencia, within the autonomous community that shares that name on Spain's eastern Mediterranean coast.
As a municipality, Manuel forms part of the local administrative structure of the Ribera Alta, a comarca situated inland of the city of Valencia. The Valencian Community is one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, and its municipalities serve as the basic tier of local government.
Manuel is one of several small municipalities that make up the Ribera Alta, a district whose name refers to its position along the lower course of the Júcar river. The area is part of the broader Valencian cultural and linguistic region, where Valencian is spoken alongside Spanish.