Lugo is a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the
autonomous community
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of
Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of
Ourense,
Pontevedra
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, and
A Coruña
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, 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 ...
, the State of
León, and in the north by the Cantabrian Sea (
Bay of Biscay).
The population is 331,327 (2018), of whom a quarter live in the capital
Lugo. The capital city was an ancient Celtic settlement named in honour of the god
Lugh
Lugh or Lug (; ga, label= Modern Irish, Lú ) is a figure in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a group of supernatural beings, Lugh is portrayed as a warrior, a king, a master craftsman and a savior.Olmsted, Garrett. ''The Go ...
(see
Lyon
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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
Braga ( , ; cel-x-proto, Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality has a resident population of 193,333 inhabitants (in ...
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:
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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
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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
Municipalities
References
See also
*
List of municipalities in Lugo
This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.
The Galician name is the sole official
Older or informal texts may use Castillan forms or spellings.
References
See also
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Galician wine
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