Alfoz () is a municipality in the province of
Lugo
Lugo (, ) 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 of 100,060 in 2024, ...
, in the autonomous community of
Galicia, Spain. It is in the comarca of
A Mariña Central
A Mariña Central is a comarca in the Galician Province of Lugo. The overall population of this local region is 28,955 (2019). This region is a political-administrative division of A Mariña de Lugo macro-region. To the north and northeast the reg ...
. It borders the municipalities of
Foz
Foz () is a town and municipality in the A Mariña Central comarca in the Galician province of Lugo. It has been historically linked to the Ancient Province of Mondoñedo and also linked to the arrival of Briton immigrants during the Dark Ages ...
,
Mondoñedo
Mondoñedo () is a small town and municipality in the Galician province of Lugo, Spain. , the town has a population of 4,508. Mondoñedo occupies a sheltered valley among the northern outliers of the Cantabrian Mountains. Despite being the core ...
,
Abadín
Abadín () is a municipality in the province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. It covers 196.1 km2 and has a population of 3,250 for a population density of 16.57/km2. It resides in the region of Terra Cha.
Geography
Abadín is situated in the no ...
and
O Valadouro
O Valadouro is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the comarca
A ''comarca'' (, , , ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain, and som ...
.
The population in 2008 was 2,133 people according to the municipal register of inhabitants. Alfoz is the
antipodes
In geography, the antipode () of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it. A pair of points ''antipodal'' () to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through Ea ...
of the
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury (UC; ; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbur ...
in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Parishes
* Adelán (Santiago)
* Bacoi (Santa María)
* Carballido (San Sebastián)
* O Castro de Ouro (San Salvador)
* Lagoa (San Vicente)
External links
*
The Mindoniensis-Ferrolensis Province in the 21st Century (Alternatives: The Britonia Province)( ( 2009-10-24)
Municipalities in the Province of Lugo
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