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Aller, Asturias
Aller ( Asturian: ''Ayer'') is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Mieres, on the south by the province of León, on the east by Laviana, Caso, and Sobrescobio, and on the west by Lena. Geography The municipality is crossed by the Aller River, which flows into the Caudal. Near the confluence, the Aller forms a deep valley between steep hillsides covered with forest. The municipality, along with those of Lena and Mieres, forms the coal-rich basin of the Caudal. The principal economic activity has been coal mining, especially in the lower part of the valley, while agriculture and ranching are also important. The towers of coal mines and the buildings of the mining communities dominate the landscape. Upriver is the municipal capital, Cabañaquinta, in the direction of which the landscape gradually transforms into a high mountain valley, which culminates in the San Isidro Pass (1,520 m), whi ...
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Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality (, , , , , )In other languages of Spain: *Catalan language, Catalan/Valencian (), grammatical number, sing. . *Galician language, Galician () or (), grammatical number, sing. /. *Basque language, Basque (), grammatical number, sing. . *Asturian language, Asturian (), grammatical number, sing. . is one of the two fundamental territorial divisions in Spain, the other being the Provinces of Spain, provinces. Organisation Although provinces of Spain, provinces are groupings of municipality, municipalities, there is no implied hierarchy or primacy of one over the other. Instead the two entities are defined according to the authority or jurisdiction of each (). Some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas of Spain, comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). The governing body in most municipalities is called ''Ayuntamiento (Spain), ayuntamiento'' (municipal council or municipal corporation, corpora ...
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Mieres, Asturias
Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbiés, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello. History Mieres is the heart of the coal mining industry in Spain. The topography of Mieres is mountainous with the greatest population centers being located in the valley along the banks of the Caudal River (''Río Caudal'') valley in the center of Asturias. Before the Spanish Industrial Restructuring Mieres was one of the industrial backbones of Asturias, and hosted 70000 inhabitants in the 1960s. Today Mieres shelters a campus of the University of Oviedo and different museums in relation with the industrial heritage. The municipality of Mieres is served by bus routes and the regional rail lines Renfe Feve and Renfe Cercani ...
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Boo (Aller)
Bo ( Spanish: Boo Official Toponyms: Laws
- Decreto 30/2008, de 8 de abril, por el que se determinan los topónimos oficiales del Concejo de Aller) is one of 18 in Aller, a within the province and of

Bello (Aller)
Beyo ( Spanish: Bello) is one of 18 parish (administrative division) in Aller, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur .... It is in size with a population of 331 ( INE 2004). Villages and hamlets * Ferguerúa * Maravidí * Pando * Riarría * Vaḷḷina References Parishes in Aller {{asturias-geo-stub ...
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Parish (subnational Entity)
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ''ecclesiastical parish'', the term ''civil parish'' is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division: See also * Muban Muban (; , ) is the lowest Administrative divisions of Thailand, administrative sub-division of Thailand. Usually translated as 'village' and sometimes as 'hamlet (place), hamlet', they are a subdivision of a tambon (subdistrict). , there were 74 ... References {{Terms for types of country subdivisions Types of administrative division ...
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Felechosa
Felechosa is a village in Asturias in Spain, in El Pino (Aller), El Pino Parish of Aller, Asturias, Aller Municipality. Its dialect of Asturian is different from many others of the region. Language Felechosa's dialect of the Asturian Language is known for distinguishing masculine singular nouns from mass nouns by raising the stress (linguistics), stressed vowel, with mid vowels becoming high vowel, high and /Open central unrounded vowel, a/ becoming /Mid front unrounded vowel, e/. This extends to the adjective paradigm, with the word for "good" declining as [bwino] in the masculine singular rather than [bwenu] as in other dialects of Asturian. References

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Mieres
Mieres is a municipality of Asturias, northern Spain, with approximately 38,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Mieres is made up of the capital, Mieres del Camino and the villages of Baíña, Figaredo, Cenera, Loredo, La Peña, La Rebollada, Santullano, Santa Rosa, Seana, Ujo, Urbiés, Valdecuna, Santa Cruz, Ablaña, Turón, Gallegos, Bustiello. History Mieres is the heart of the coal mining industry in Spain. The topography of Mieres is mountainous with the greatest population centers being located in the valley along the banks of the Caudal River (''Río Caudal'') valley in the center of Asturias. Before the Spanish Industrial Restructuring Mieres was one of the industrial backbones of Asturias, and hosted 70000 inhabitants in the 1960s. Today Mieres shelters a campus of the University of Oviedo and different museums in relation with the industrial heritage. The municipality of Mieres is served by bus routes and the regional rail lines Renfe Feve and Renfe Cercanias, ...
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Caudal (river)
The Caudal is a river in northern Spain flowing through the Autonomous Community of Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t .... Rivers of Spain Rivers of Asturias {{Spain-river-stub ...
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Aller (Caudal)
The Aller is a river in northern Spain flowing through the Autonomous Community of Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t .... Rivers of Spain Rivers of Asturias {{Spain-river-stub ...
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Santuario Miravalles-frontal Sur
Santuario may refer to: * Santuario, town and municipality in the Department of Risaralda, Colombia; * El Santuario, town and municipality in the Antioquia Department, Colombia; * ''Santuario'' (TV series), television series. See also * Santuario station (other) * Sanctuary (other) A sanctuary is a place of safety. Sanctuary or The Sanctuary or Sanctuaries may also refer to: Places * Sanctuary, Saskatchewan, Canada * Sanctuary, Texas, United States * Sanctuary, Shkodër, a church-mosque building and Cultural Monument ...
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Lena, Asturias
Lena ( Asturian: ''Ḷḷena'' ) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It has a population of 12.000 inhabitants, while 9,200 of them live in the capital, Pola de Lena. Parishes Main sights * Pre-Romanesque church of Santa Cristina de Lena. In 1985 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. *Mosaic of Vega de Ciego, discovered in 1921. It was probably from a Roman villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Nevertheless, the term "Roman villa" generally covers buildings with the common ..., and is now in the Archaeological Museum of Asturias *''El Hospitalón'' (16th century) *Baroque ''Palacio de Faes'', at Carabanzo See also * Sanctuary of the Virgen de Bendueños References Municipalities in Asturias * {{asturias-geo-stub ...
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Sobrescobio
Sobrescobio (; ) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Piloña, on the east by Caso, on the south by Aller, and on the west by Laviana. It is situated in the southeast section of Asturias, at the eastern limit of the Nalón mineral basin. It forms part of the Communal Valley of Nalón, together with Langreo, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Laviana and Caso. With Caso, it forms part of the Parque Natural de Redes. Geography Geology Limestone, slate and occasionally sandstone are the typical rocks in this area. The mountains of the Sierra Grandesllanes, Sierra Carderu, Sierra del Crespón, Sierra Mermeja and Sierra de Collaroces surround the area with El Retriñón, (1.862 m) as highest point. Rivers and lakes Río Nalon passes Sobrescobio. The rivers Rio del Alba, Rio Llaimu, Rio Nozalin and Rio Huegro are located nearby. The reservoir Embalse de Rioseco is in Rioseco, the Capital of Sob ...
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