Grandas de Salime 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 community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive ...

, Spain. It is famous for its

hydroelectric dam Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...

across the

Navia River The Navia is a river in northern Spain flowing South to North from Galicia into the Autonomous Community of Asturias. It discharges into the Bay of Biscay through an estuary called ''Ría de Navia''. See also * List of rivers of Spain * Rive ...

, forming the Embalse de Salime (''reservoir of Salime''). It is also famous for being a stop along the

Camino Primitivo The Primitive Way ( es, Camino Primitivo, link=no) is one of the paths of the Camino de Santiago. It begins in the old Asturian capital of Oviedo and runs west to Lugo and then south to Santiago de Compostela joining the more popular French Way ...

path of the

Camino de Santiago The Camino de Santiago ( la, Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; gl, O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint ...

, where it is the last stretch of Asturian land before the entrance into Galicia through the

Acebo Pass Acebo may refer to: * Acebo (river), northern Spain *Acebo, Cáceres Acebo (Extremaduran language, Extremaduran: L'Acebu) is a municipality in Cáceres (province), Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain. It is located in the northeast of the provi ...

. The municipality is situated in the interior of the eastern region of Asturias, bordered on the south by the 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 ...

, on the north by the Asturian municipalities of

Santa Eulalia de Oscos Santa Eulalia de Oscos (Eonavian: Santalla d'Ozcos) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Villanueva de Oscos, on the south and west by Lugo province of Galicia, an ...

San Martín de Oscos San Martín de Oscos ( Eonavian: Samartín d'Ozcos) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias. It is bordered on the north by Illano, on the south by Grandas de Salime, on the east by Pesoz and on the west by ...

Pesoz Pesoz (Eonavian: Pezós) is a municipality and the only parish in that municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is one of the least populated municipalities in Asturias. It is bordered on the north by I ...

and

Allande Allande ( Asturian and Galician-Asturian: ''Ayande'') is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Its capital is Pola de Allande. The municipality is bordered on the north by Villayón, on the south by Ca ...

. The village has an

ethnographic Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

museum which occupies the former governing house of Grandas. Geologically, the region is dominated by deposits of

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...

and

quartzite Quartzite is a hard, non- foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.Essentials of Geology, 3rd Edition, Stephen Marshak, p 182 Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to tect ...

. The

hydroelectric Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...

dam turned 50 years old in 2004. Its inside is adorned with a large mural by the architect of the dam, Joaquin Vaquero Palacios.

Parishes A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

* Grandas * La Mesa *

Negueira Negueira is one of seven parishes (administrative divisions) in the municipality of Grandas de Salime, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. The population is 35 (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Instit ...

* Peñafuente *

Trabada Trabada is a municipality in the Spanish province of Lugo Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra, and A Coruña, the ...

* Villarpedre * Vitos Embalse de Salime

Famous people

Manuel Abad y Queipo Manuel Abad y Queipo (26 August 1751 – 15 September 1825) was a Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of Michoacán in the Viceroyalty of New Spain at the time of the Mexican War of Independence. He was "an acute social commentator of late colonial Me ...

, religious figure and minister of the 18th century. * Pepe el Ferreiro, founder of the Ethnographic Museum of Grandas of Salime.

References

External links

Ayuntamiento de Grandas de Salime

Municipalities in Asturias * {{asturias-geo-stub