Candamo

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Candamo / Candamu municipality
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Asturias
Comarca :	Avilés
Coordinates	43 ° 27 ′  N , 6 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 27 ′  N , 6 ° 3 ′  W
Height :	48  msnm
Area :	72.69 km²
Residents :	1,947 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	26.78 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	33828 and 33829
Municipality number  ( INE ):	33010
Nearest airport :	Asturias Airport 23.1 km
administration
Mayor :	José Antonio García Vega ( PSOE )
Address of the municipal administration:	Carretera General, s / n 33829 GRULLOS
Website :	www.ayto-candamo.es/index.htm
Location of the municipality

Candamo is a concejo of the Autonomous Region of Asturias . (In Asturias and Galicia the Concejos correspond to the Municipios in the rest of Spain.) It borders in the north on Soto del Barco , Castrillón and Illas in the south on Grado , in the east on Las Regueras , in the west on Salas and Pravia . The capital Grullos is nine kilometers away

City flag

The Concejo has a rail link to the RENFE network .

history

Around Candamo and especially on the banks of the Nalón River, rich finds from the Paleolithic have been made. An extraordinary occurrence in a cave of the rock of Candamo (discovered 1913), which is the westernmost find of a Paleolithic rock painting . The first documented mentions date from the 11th century and were found in a monastery archive. From the 13th century the place belongs to the municipality of Grado . From 1784 to 1835 the (administrative) struggle for city ​​rights , which Candamo was granted in 1835, lasted .

Attractions

• El palacio de Valdés Bazán, from the 17th century
• La casa de la Torre,
• El Palacio de Cañedo
• El palacio de los Casares in San Tirso

Parroquias

Aces Cuero (in Asturian: Cueiru) Fenolleda (in Asturian: Fenoyeda) Disgusting Llamero (in Asturian: Llameiru)

Murias Prahúa (in Asturian: Praúa) San Roman San Tirso (in Asturian: San Tisu) El Valle Ventosa

politics

The eleven seats of the municipal council are distributed as follows:

Distribution of seats in the municipal council of Candamo
Political party	1979	1983	1987	1991	1995	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015
PSOE	1	1		9	7th	9	8th	8th	7th	6th
PP		2			3	1	2	2		3
IU	6th	8th	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	2
UCD / CDS	4th		2
CVI			6th
FAC									3
Total	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11

Population development

Source: INE - graphic processing for Wikipedia

economy

After the Spanish Civil War , an industrial area was designated, which is characterized by medium-sized companies. The economic focus is still on agriculture. Due to the proximity to the Picos de Europa and the Stone Age finds, a small tourism industry has also grown in recent years.

Employment figures for the municipality of Candamo in the economic sectors

	Employees	Percentage
TOTAL	421	100
Agriculture, livestock and fishing	118	28.03
Industry	9	2.14
Construction industry	87	20.67
Service companies	207	49.17
* Data from the Statistical Office for Economic Development in Asturias, status 2009 (PDF; 109 kB) , SADEI

sons and daughters of the town

• José Valdés, politician and writer from the 18th century and bailiff in Burgos .
• Jesús Fernández, writer and poet, born on March 25, 1863 in Llamero
• Hernando Miranda, Florida governor in the 16th century.

swell

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ 2011 Spanish Ministry of the Interior
3. ↑ 2015 Spanish Ministry of the Interior  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

• Population figures see INE
• Postcodes see [1]
• For coordinates and heights, see Google Earth

Web links

Commons : Candamo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city (Spanish)