Blimea is the most eastern parish of the

San Martín del Rey Aurelio San Martín del Rey Aurelio (Asturian language, Asturian: Samartín del Rei Aurelio) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality of the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias in northern Spain. There are three main towns in the munici ...

council. By Decree Law December 2007, the town of Blimea joins El Entrego and

Sotrondio Sotrondio is a town in San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, Spain. In September 2007, by a decree of the Principality of Asturias, it joined the adjacent El Entrego and Blimea to form a single population center, San Martin del Rey, as a homony ...

to form the town of San Martín, 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 inhabitants ( INE 2005).

Villages and hamlets

Parishes in San Martín del Rey Aurelio {{asturias-geo-stub