Colunga () is a municipality in the

Autonomous community The autonomous communities () are the first-level administrative divisions of Spain, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy to the nationalities and regions that make up Sp ...

of the Principality of

Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...

, Spain. It lies on the

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, and is bordered to the west by Villaviciosa, to the south by Parres and

Piloña Piloña () is a municipality in the province and autonomous community of Asturias, northwestern Spain. Its capital is the town of Infiesto. Piloña is bounded to the north by Villaviciosa and Colunga, to the east by Parres, to the west by Na ...

, and to the east by Caravia.

Politics

Parishes

Parish of Colunga

The capital of the municipality is the parish with the same name. Its population is 1,132 ( INE 2007) and it is divided in five villages: Cimavilla, El Ferreru, Friera, Loreto and El Sorriberu.

Demography

Anchovy beaching incident

On September 29, 2006, millions of

anchovies An anchovy is a small, common forage fish of the family Engraulidae. Most species are found in marine waters, but several will enter brackish water, and some in South America are restricted to fresh water. More than 140 species are placed in 1 ...

, constituting a weight of over three tons, beached themselves near Colunga. Tests on the dead fish did not detect any toxic chemical that could have caused the beaching, and the current working theory is that the shoal beached itself trying to escape from "hungry dolphins or tuna." If the beached specimens had grown to maturity, it would have been more than "100 tons of potential breeders."Millions of anchovies die on Spain beach
AP, Sept. 29th, 2006

Gallery

File:Iglesia de Santa María de Sabada.jpg, Church of Santa María de Sabada File:Iglesia de Santiago (Gobiendes).jpg,

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Church of Santiago de Gobiendes File:Palacio de Gobiendes - 7.jpg, Palace of Gobiendes File:Torre del Reloj (Lastres).jpg, Clock tower in Lastres, Colunga File:Aytocolunga.jpg, Colunga's Town Hall File:MUJA-Tyrannosaurus.JPG, Jurassic Museum of Asturias File:Costadinosaurios.JPG, The Dinosaur Coast

Notes

References

*Populationsdata INE *Postalcode

*Altitdude

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External links

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