Colunga

43°29′10″N 5°16′13″W / 43.48611°N 5.27028°W / 43.48611; -5.27028Country SpainAutonomous community AsturiasProvinceAsturiasComarcaOrienteJudicial districtVillaviciosaCapitalColungaGovernment • AlcaldeJosé Rogelio Pando (PSOE)Area • Total97.57 km² (37.67 sq mi)Highest elevation1,159 m (3,802 ft)Population • Total3,332 • Density34/km² (88/sq mi)Demonymcolungués / colunguesaTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal codeWebsiteOfficial website

Colunga (Spanish pronunciation: [koˈluŋɡa]) is a municipality in the Autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It lies on the Cantabrian Sea, and is bordered to the west by Villaviciosa, to the south by Parres and Piloña, and to the east by Caravia.

Politics

Elecciones municipales
Partido	1979	1983	1987[2]	1991[2]	1995[2]	1999[2]	2003[2]	2007[2]	2011[3]	2015[2]
PSOE		4	4	3	5	3	4	6	6	6
CD / AP / PP	4	4	5	7	6	6	4	5	3	4
FAC									2	1
PCE / IU-BA / IU-The Greens			2	1		1	1	0	0	0
UCD / CDS	6	5	2	0			2
Agrupación Independiente por Colunga				2
Electores por Colunga					2
URAS / URAS-PAS						1	0	0
Independents	3
Total	13	13	13	13	13	11	11	11	11	11

Parishes

Carrandi Colunga Gobiendes La Isla La Llera La Riera Llastres

Lliberdón Llue Pernús Pivierda Sales San Xuan de Duz

Parish of Colunga

The capital of the municipality is the parish with the same name. Its population is 1,132 (INE 2007) and it is divided in five villages: Cimavilla, El Ferreru, Friera, Loreto and El Sorriberu.

Demography

Quelle: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España - grafische Aufarbeitung für Wikipedia

Anchovy beaching incident

On September 29, 2006, millions of anchovies, constituting a weight of over three tons, had beached themselves near Colunga. Tests on the dead fish did not detect any toxic chemical that could have caused the beaching, and the current working theory is that the shoal beached itself trying to escape from "hungry dolphins or tuna." If the beached specimens had grown to maturity, it would have been more than "100 tons of potential breeders."^[4]

Gallery

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  Church of Santa María de Sabada
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  Pre-Romanesque Church of Santiago de Gobiendes
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  Palace of Gobiendes
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  Clock tower in Lastres, Colunga
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  Colunga's Town Hall
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  Jurassic Museum of Asturias
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  The Dinosaur Coast

Notes

References

• Populationsdata INE
• Postalcodes [1]
• Altitdude Google Earth

External links