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Cubillos del Sil () is a village and municipality located in the region of
El Bierzo El Bierzo (; or ''El Bierzu''; ) is a '' comarca'' in the province of León, Spain. Its capital is the town of Ponferrada. Other major towns are Bembibre and Villafranca del Bierzo, the historical capital. The territory of El Bierzo inclu ...
(
province of León León (, ; ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León. About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the c ...
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Castile and León Castile and León is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain by area, covering 94,222 km2. It is, however, sparsely populated, with a pop ...
, Spain). It is located near
Ponferrada Ponferrada () is a city of Spain, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Ponferrada, the second most populated municipality of the Province of León, is also the capital city of El Bierzo, the only Comarcas of Spain, ''comarca'' ...
, the capital of El Bierzo. Cubillos del Sil has about 1,771 inhabitants. Its economy was traditionally based on agriculture, wine and
coal mining Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...
. Nowadays, most of the inhabitants work in the surrounding area on activities such as electricity generation manufacturing in
ENDESA Endesa, S.A. (, originally an initialism for ''Empresa Nacional de Electricidad, S.A''.) is a Spanish multinational electric utility company, the largest in the country. The firm, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Italian utility company Enel, ...
( Compostilla II Power Station). Cubillos del Sil also has a large reservoir in its vicinity, the Barcena reservoir, which many tourists visit during the summer.


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Council of Cubillos del Sil
(Spanish)
Cubillos del Sil at Google Maps
Municipalities in El Bierzo Populated places in the Province of León {{León-geo-stub