Alfoz () is a municipality in the Spanish Galician province of

Lugo Lugo (, ; la, Lucus Augusti) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is the capital of the Lugo (province), province of Lugo. The municipality had a population ...

. It is in the region of

A Mariña Central A Mariña Central is a comarca in the Galician Province of Lugo. The overall population of this local region is 28,955 (2019). This region is a political-administrative division of A Mariña de Lugo macro-region. To the north and northeast the reg ...

. It borders the municipalities of Foz, Mondoñedo,

Abadín Abadín () is a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. It covers 196.1 km² and has a population of 3,250 for a population density of 16.57/km². It resides in the region of Terra Cha. Geography Abadín is situated in the ...

and

O Valadouro O Valadouro is a municipality in the Galician province of Lugo. O Valadouro belongs to the region of A Mariña Central A Mariña Central is a comarca in the Galician Province of Lugo. The overall population of this local region is 28,955 (2019 ...

. The population in 2008 was 2,133 people according to the municipal register of inhabitants. Alfoz is the

antipodes In geography, the antipode () of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it. A pair of points ''antipodal'' () to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through Ear ...

of the

University of Canterbury The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...

in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Parishes

* Adelán (Santiago) * Bacoi (Santa María) * Carballido (San Sebastián) * O Castro de Ouro (San Salvador) * Lagoa (San Vicente)

Celebrities

Juan Carlos Mandía ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

* Paula Lorenzo Geada * Hipólito Geada Pena

External links

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The Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis Province in the 21st Century (Alternatives: The Britonia Province)
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