
Blimea is the most eastern parish of the
San Martín del Rey Aurelio
San Martín del Rey Aurelio ( Asturian: Samartín del Rei Aurelio) is a municipality of the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain.
There are three main towns in the municipality: Sotrondio, El Entrego, and Blimea, ...
council. By Decree LAW December 2007, the town of Blimea joins
El Entrego
L'Entregu ( es, El Entrego, "the Hand-over") is a town and urban center in San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, Spain. In September 2007, by a decree of the Principality of Asturias, L'Entregu joined the adjacent Sotrondio and Blimea to form ...
and
Sotrondio to form the town of San Martin, being the town of Blimea one of its districts.
Blimea is a place name emerged from many
Asturian words with different phonetic variants translated into
Castilian word " wicker " such as bima, blima, brima, blimba or bilma . From the etymological point of view, wicker part of Latin " vimen - viminis " and in the Asturian case is influenced belime, " wheat residue " and bilimia, "drill ", " Beria " . It would therefore be an area where ''blima'' was abundant .
Nalón river divides into two large halves and forms a broad plain which is where Blimea, capital of the parish rises.
It is in size, with a population of 3,867 (
INE 2005).
Villages and hamlets
Parishes in San Martín del Rey Aurelio
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