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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 (5th and 6th centuries) fleeing by sea from the British Isles (see Bishop Maeloc, Britonia and San Martiño de Mondoñedo). It has 9800 inhabitants. It borders the coastal municipalities of Burela and Barreiros, and the inland municipalities of Lourenzá, Mondoñedo, O Valadouro, Alfoz, and Cervo. Foz is a coastal town on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea at the mouth of the river Masma, which forms the Foz estuary, with an approximate area of 100 km². Although Foz was previously a fishing village, most of its economic resources now come from tourism. Etymology The name Foz comes from the Latin word ''faux'' which graphically describes the river mouth of the Masma river; Foz is the Galician term for base level. History The fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lugo (province)
Lugo is a province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense, Pontevedra, and A Coruña, the principality of Asturias, 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 (see Lyon), 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 (; ) is a cities of Portugal, city and a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality, capital of the northwestern Portugal, Portuguese Braga (district), district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province. Braga Municipality ... and Astorga respectively). The province has 67 municipalities. Languages The vast majority of people have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 region borders the Bay of Biscay, on the northwest with A Mariña, to the west and south by the Terra Chá, Meira on the southeast and east with A Mariña Oriental. The landscape of the region has three distinct relief units: the shallow and coastal plains, the valleys of the rivers Masma (Lourenzá) and Ouro (O Valadouro), and low-lying, undulating hills as the Serra do Xistral. The coast is steep and the small coves and inlets are interspersed with rivers and estuaries ( Foz). The predominant vegetation consists of oaks, pines, eucalyptus afforestation and grassland. Climate The climate is oceanic since the daily and seasonal temperature variations are small due to the influence of the ocean. Temperatures are mild throughout the year wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Mondoñedo-Ferrol
The Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. It is the northernmost of the four suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, which covers Galicia in the northwest of Spain."Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol" ''''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016"Diocese of Mondoñedo–Ferrol" ''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016 The area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Lugo
Lugo is a province (Spain), province of northwestern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Ourense Province, Ourense, Pontevedra Province, Pontevedra, and A Coruña Province, A Coruña, the principality of Asturias, the State of León Province, 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 (see Lyon), later Latinised as ''Lucus Augusti'', and which became one of the three main important Galicia (Spain)#History, Galician-Roman centres alongside Braccara Augusta and Asturica Augusta (modern Braga and Astorga, Spain, Astorga respectively). The province has 67 municipalities. Languages The vast majority of people have a common language, Galician language, Galician. Some people, especially the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trégastel
Trégastel (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of the region of Brittany in northwestern France. Trégastel is situated between Perros-Guirec and Pleumeur-Bodou. Lannion is away. Population Inhabitants of Trégastel are called ''trégastellois'' in French. Breton language The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg in February 2008. In 2008, 16.5% of primary school children attended bilingual schools. International relations Twin towns – sister cities Trégastel is twinned with: * Foz, Galicia, Spain (2003) * Koussané, Mali (2004) Religious monuments * St Laurent Church in the bourg * Ste Anne des rochers chapel * St Golgon chapel The Costaérès castle In 1892, Bruno Abakanowicz bought a small island called ''Costaérès'' in Trégastel, where by 1896 he had erected a neo-Gothic manor. Marine aquarium of Trégastel Since 1967, Trégastel has been home to a marine aquarium, built within a large, naturally occurrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 of the region of A Mariña Central, it is the city with the fifth biggest population after Viveiro, Ribadeo, Foz and Burela. The municipality of Mondoñedo is in the northern half of the province of Lugo and is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Foz and Alfoz, to the south by Pastoriza and Riotorto, to the east by Lorenzana and to west with Abadín. The population of Mondoñedo is distributed throughout the 15 parishes that make up the council. History Mondoñedo is first mentioned during the rule of king Ordoño I of Asturias in 858; It was taken by surprise by the French in 1809 during the Napoleonic Wars. The Galician Province of Mondoñedo disappeared in 1833 when all the seven provinces of Galicia were reduced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barreiros, Lugo
Barreiros is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, 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 belongs to the comarca of A Mariña Oriental. This municipality is closely linked to the history of the province from pre-Roman times. It has a geographical range extending from the valleys to the mountains and from the plains to the coast with high cliffs and long beaches. History The first name mentioned is that of Cabarcos, which seems to come from Civarcos. The town was named for Plinio and situated between the mouths of Eo and Masma. During the Middle Ages the name Cabarcos or Cibarcos continued to appear. The oldest document in which it is named Barreiros was in 775. It corresponds to a donation of land of King Don Silo to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Base Level
In geology and geomorphology a base level is the lower limit for the vertical position of an erosion, erosion process. The modern term was introduced by John Wesley Powell in 1875. The term was subsequently appropriated by William Morris Davis who used it in his cycle of erosion theory. The "ultimate base level" is the surface that results from horizontal projection of the sea level under landmasses (the geoid). It is to this base level that topography tends to approach due to erosion, eventually forming a peneplain close to the end of a cycle of erosion.Phillips, Jonathan D. (2002)"Erosion, isostatic response, and the missing peneplains" ''Geomorphology (journal), Geomorphology'', Vol. 45, No. 3-4Elsevier, 15 June 2002, pp. 225-241. . There are also lesser structural geology, structural base levels where erosion is delayed by resistant rocks. Examples of this include karst regions underlain by insoluble rock. Base levels may be local when large landmasses are far from the sea or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfoz
Alfoz () is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It is in the comarca of A Mariña Central. It borders the municipalities of Foz, Mondoñedo, Abadín and O Valadouro. The population in 2008 was 2,133 people according to the municipal register of inhabitants. Alfoz is the antipodes 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 {{Galicia-geo- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, mark ... of A Mariña Central. Its capital is the town of Ferreira. In 2023, it had 1,890 inhabitants according to the INE. History and heritage The site of ''Chao da Cruz'' is in the plain of ''Cabalar-A Veiga Blonde'', at the foot of the ''Box O Cadramón''. At this site about two thousand mounting tools made of chips of quartz, quartz and rock crystal were found along with prisms and an abundance of remains small in size and barely retouched. References Municipalities in the Province of Lugo {{Galicia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cervo, Lugo
Cervo is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the comarca of A Mariña Occidental. Etymology In the Galician language, ''cervo'' means deer.González González, M. (dir.): Dicionario da Real Academia Galega. A Coruña A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...: Real Academia Galega. etrieved: 21 January 2024/ref> References Municipalities in the Province of Lugo {{Galicia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
