Balboa, León
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Balboa () (Valboa in Galician language) is a village and municipality located in the region of El Bierzo (
province of León León (, , ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the ...
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Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of th ...
, Spain). It is one of Galician speaking councils of El BierzoMultilingualism in Spain. Teresa Turell. page 113
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Pedanías

The
parish 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 ...
es belonging to the municipality are: * Balboa * Cantejeira * Pumarín * Ruidelamas * Castañeira * Castañoso * Source Olive * Chandevillar * Ruideferros * Valverde do Camín * Villarmarín * Villafeile * Lamagrande * Quintela * Villanueva * Parajís * Villariños Although Galician names are unofficial, they are the original and commonly used by the inhabitants of the municipality, since the names in Castilian are mere translations of the original names.


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Municipalities in El Bierzo {{León-geo-stub