Colunga () is a municipality in the

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of the Principality of

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in nor ...

, Spain. It lies on the

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, and is bordered to the west by Villaviciosa, to the south by

Parres Parres is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Caravia and Ribadesella, on the east by Cangas de Onís, on the west by Piloña and Colunga, and on the south by Amieva ...

and

Piloña Piloña () is a municipality in the province and autonomous community of Asturias, northwestern Spain. Its capital is the town of Infiesto. Piloña is bounded to the north by Villaviciosa and Colunga, to the east by Parres, to the west by Nav ...

, and to the east by Caravia.

Politics

Parishes

Parish of Colunga

The capital of the municipality is the parish with the same name. Its population is 1,132 (

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2007) and it is divided in five villages: Cimavilla, El Ferreru, Friera, Loreto and El Sorriberu.

Demography

Anchovy beaching incident

On September 29, 2006, millions of

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, constituting a weight of over three tons, had beached themselves near Colunga. Tests on the dead fish did not detect any toxic chemical that could have caused the beaching, and the current working theory is that the shoal beached itself trying to escape from "hungry dolphins or tuna." If the beached specimens had grown to maturity, it would have been more than "100 tons of potential breeders."Millions of anchovies die on Spain beach
AP, Sept. 29th, 2006

Gallery

File:Iglesia de Santa María de Sabada.jpg, Church of Santa María de Sabada File:Iglesia de Santiago (Gobiendes).jpg,

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Church of Santiago de Gobiendes File:Palacio de Gobiendes - 7.jpg, Palace of Gobiendes File:Torre del Reloj (Lastres).jpg, Clock tower in Lastres, Colunga File:Aytocolunga.jpg, Colunga's Town Hall File:MUJA-Tyrannosaurus.JPG, Jurassic Museum of Asturias File:Costadinosaurios.JPG, The Dinosaur Coast

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