Muxia

Muxía municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Galicia
Province :	A Coruña
Comarca :	Fisterra
Coordinates	43 ° 6 ′ N , 9 ° 13 ′ W Coordinates: 43 ° 6 ′ N , 9 ° 13 ′ W
Area :	121.19 km²
Residents :	4,657 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	38.43 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number ( INE ):	15052
administration
Website :	www.concellomuxia.com
Location of the municipality

Muxía (officially and in Galician language ; unofficially Spanish and formerly officially Mugía ) is a municipality in the Galician province of A Coruña in north-western Spain .

geography

The place is on the Costa da Morte , a section of the north-west Spanish Atlantic coast . Cape Touriñán, the westernmost point of mainland Spain, belongs to the municipality .

Districts ( Parroquias )

Bardullas (San Xoán)
Caberta (San Fins)
Coucieiro (San Pedro)
Frixe (Santa Locacia)
Leis de Nemancos (San Pedro)
Moraime (San Xulián)
Morquintián (Santa María)

Muxia (Santa María)
Nemiña (San Cristovo)
Nosa Señora da O (Santa María)
San Martiño de Ozón (San Martiño)
Santiso de Vuiturón (San Tirso)
Touriñán (San Martiño)
Vilastose (San Cibrán)

history

The coast of Muxía was one of the hardest hit areas in the environmental disaster caused by the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker in November 2002 .

On the evening of December 25, 2013, a fire after a lightning strike during the Christmas storm destroyed the roof structure and part of the sanctuary of the Virxe da Barca (Marian shrine to the ship's maiden). The church is an important place of pilgrimage in Galicia and another destination of many pilgrims after reaching Santiago de Compostela.