Valdés (Asturias)
Valdes municipality | ||
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coat of arms | Map of Spain | |
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : |
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Comarca : | Eo-Navia | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 33 ′ N , 6 ° 32 ′ W | |
Height : | 19 msnm | |
Area : | 353.52 km² | |
Residents : | 11,504 (Jan 1, 2019) | |
Population density : | 32.54 inhabitants / km² | |
Postal code : | 33700 | |
Municipality number ( INE ): | 33034 | |
Nearest airport : | Asturias airport 50 km | |
administration | ||
Address of the municipal administration: | Plaza de Alfonso X el Sabio, 1 33700 VALDES | |
Website : | ayto-valdes.es | |
Location of the municipality | ||
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Valdés is a municipality in the west of the Autonomous Community of Asturias , on the Costa Verde in Spain . The main town is Luarca .
location
Valdés is located on the Bay of Biscay and has an area of 353.52 square kilometers and 11,504 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). Valdés is located on the A8 coastal road halfway between Gijón and Galicia .
Northwest: Navia | North: Cantabrian Sea | Northeast: Salas |
West: Villayón |
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East: Cudillero and Salas |
Southwest Villayón | South: Tineo | Southeast: Salas |
economy
Workers | Percentage | ||||
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TOTAL | 4,457 | 100 | |||
Agriculture, forestry, fishing | 1,300 | 29.17 | |||
Industry | 305 | 6.84 | |||
construction industry | 471 | 10.57 | |||
Services | 2,381 | 53.42 | |||
Source: 2006 , SADEI |
Population development
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/timeline/3825aa7f8ced0007100445914beb82c0.png)
politics
The municipal council , which was reduced to 17 seats in 1987 , is elected every 4 years and is divided as follows:
Historical development in the municipal council of Valdés | ||||||||||
Political party | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1995 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 |
PSOE | 2 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 11 | 7th | 8th |
FAC | 5 | 3 | ||||||||
CD / AP / PP | 1 | 12 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 8th | 5 | 6th | 3 | 3 |
URAS | 1 | 5 | 0 coalition | 1 coalition | 2 | |||||
PAS | ||||||||||
PCE / IU - BA / IU - Los Verdes | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
UCD / CDS | 10 | 1 | ||||||||
PDP | 1 | |||||||||
Non-party | 8th | |||||||||
Total | 21st | 21st | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th |
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Parroquias
The parish is divided into 15 parroquias.
Barcia is the site of the Arab War Cemetery .
Sons and daughters of the church
- Miguel de Luarca (1540–1591), soldier; one of the first ambassadors of Spain to China and writer
- Álvaro de Albornoz (1879–1954), lawyer, author and politician
- Fernán Coronas (1884–1939), pseudonym of Galo Antonio Fernández, writer
- Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905-1993), Spanish-American biochemist
- Nené Losada (1921–2009), born Carmen Losada Rico, poet
- Manuel Gil Parrondo y Rico (1921–2016), filmmaker
- Margarita Salas Folgueras (1938–2019), biochemist
- Borja Vidal Fernández Fernández (* 1981), Qatari handball and basketball player of Spanish origin
swell
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Election results 2011 Spanish Ministry of the Interior , 2011
- ↑ Election results 2015 Spanish Ministry of the Interior ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2015
- Population figures see INE
- Postcodes [1]
- Coordinates and heights at the headquarters of the municipal administration from Google Maps
Web links
Commons : Valdés - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website
- Federación Asturiana de Concejos
- Various things about Luarca and Valdés
- Photos from Luarca