Lugo is a

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of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the

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. It is bordered by the provinces of

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, Pontevedra, and

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, the principality of

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, the State of León, and in the north by the Cantabrian Sea (

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). The population is 331,327 (2018), of whom a quarter live in the capital

Lugo Lugo (, ; la, Lucus Augusti) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 98,025 in 2018, making it the fourth most populous city in Ga ...

. The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god

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(see

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), later Latinised as ''Lucus Augusti'', and which became one of the three main important Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta (modern Braga and Astorga respectively). The province has 67 municipalities.

Languages

The vast majority of people have a common language which is Galician. Some people, especially the older generation, are monolingual and only speak Galician. There are only a few people bilingual in Galician and Castilian of the little over 10,000 inhabitants. Even in the capital, the vitality of the Galician language in conversation is very strong. The inhabitants speak several variants of Galician in the province of Lugo. They have the characteristics of being the closest to León isoglosses and therefore also the Castilian language. So they have some grammatical and phonetic signs that are mistakenly considered influences of the Castilian or Leonese languages. However, the language of Galicia in Lugo, especially in non-coastal areas, is probably the most genuine in Galicia, due to almost no historic pressure of Castilian exercised on the rural population.

Population

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:600 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:416 text:415,501 bar:1887 from:0 till:438 text:438,076 bar:1900 from:0 till:476 text:476,357 bar:1910 from:0 till:512 text:512,467 bar:1920 from:0 till:518 text:517,918 bar:1930 from:0 till:524 text:523,911 bar:1940 from:0 till:545 text:545,128 bar:1950 from:0 till:521 text:521,213 bar:1960 from:0 till:492 text:491,955 bar:1970 from:0 till:423 text:423,064 bar:1980 from:0 till:405 text:405,365 bar:1990 from:0 till:384 text:384,365 bar:2000 from:0 till:358 text:357,648 bar:2010 from:0 till:348 text:348,067 bar:2020 from:0 till:328 text:327,946 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE"

Geography

Estuaries

The estuaries of the Lugo province are part of the Atlas estuaries. From west to east they are: *O Barqueiro estuary *Viveiro estuary *Foz estuary *Ribadeo estuary

Rivers

*Miño river *Sil river *Landro river *Ouro river *Masmo river

Languages

Population

Geography

Estuaries

Rivers

Municipalities

References

See also