Valdés (Asturias)

Valdes municipality
	Town hall of the municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Asturias
Comarca :	Eo-Navia
Coordinates	43 ° 33 ′ N , 6 ° 32 ′ W 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

Traditional parade in Valdés

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 .

The municipality of Valdés is bounded by
Northwest: Navia	North: Cantabrian Sea	Northeast: Salas
West: Villayón		East: Cudillero and Salas
Southwest Villayón	South: Tineo	Southeast: Salas

economy

Employees in the branches of industry (2006)
	Workers	Percentage
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

Source: INE

politics

The municipal council , which was reduced to 17 seats in 1987 , is elected every 4 years and is divided as follows:

Total	21st	21st	17th	17th	17th	17th	17th	17th	17th	17th
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								0 ^coalition	1 ^coalition
PCE / IU - BA / IU - Los Verdes									1	1
UCD / CDS	10		1
PDP			1
Non-party	8th

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 @1@ 2

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

[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] Election results 2011 Spanish Ministry of the Interior , 2011

[3] 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 @1@ 2