Allande ( Asturian and Galician-Asturian: ''Ayande'') 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 coextensiv ...

, Spain. Its capital is Pola de Allande. The municipality is bordered on the north by Villayón, on the south by

Cangas del Narcea Cangas del Narcea is the oldest municipality in the Principality of Asturias in Spain. It is also the largest municipality in Asturias. It is in the southwest of Asturias, on the Asturian border with León. Formerly, Cangas del Narcea was kn ...

and

Ibias Ibias is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Allande and A Fonsagranda and Negueira (in the Province of Lugo, Galicia); on the east by Degaña and Cangas de Narce ...

, to the east by Tineo and to the west by Pesoz, Grandas de Salime and

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(in the province of

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). The majority of the territory of the municipality is a National Monument. Among its forest riches are thousand-year-old yews in the parishes of Santa Colma and Lago, and the cork forest of Boxu.

Demography

Allande is one of the least populated municipalities in Asturias. Like the rest of the Asturian rural areas, the area is losing population. In the 20th century, there were two major periods of population loss. The first was from 1900 to 1930, where a large number of the inhabitants emigrated to the

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, especially

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, and the

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. The second period began in 1960 and is due to the

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of the countryside, which caused the municipality to lose nearly two-thirds of its population.

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Holidays

In this municipality a number of local holidays are celebrated. The ''Nuestra Señora de Avellano'' (Our Lady of Avellano) in Pola de Allande from September 7 to 10, and ''Nuestra Señora de Belderaman'' (Our Lady of Belderaman) on August 15, in the 18th-century sanctuary of the same name in which there is a fountain which, according to legend, cures goiter. There is also the holidays of San Jorge de Monon on June 29, San Pedro de Valbona on June 29, Santa Isabel in Berducedo the first Sunday in July, San Cristóbal in Campo el Río the second Sunday of July, and San Roque in Fonteta August 16, 17, and 18.

Politics

References

*Populationsdata INE *Postalcode

*Altitdude

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External links

www.allande.es

Concejo de Allande
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