Carballeda de Valdeorras is a larger

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

Ourense Ourense (; es, Orense ) is a city and capital of the province of Ourense, located in the autonomous community of Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path of the Way of St James ( Camino de Santiago), and is crossed by t ...

in the

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region of north-west

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. It is located towards the very north-east of the

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in the comarca of

Valdeorras Valdeorras is a comarca in the Galician Province of Ourense Ourense (in Spanish, ''Orense'') is a Spanish province, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Pontevedra to the west, ...

. The only ''

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'' forest in Galicia is located within this municipal term.

Villages

* Candeda * Carballeda * Casaio * Casoio * Domiz * Lardeira * A Portela do Trigal * Pumares * Pusmazán * Riodolas * Robledo * San Xusto * Santa Cruz * Sobradelo * Soutadoiro * Vila * Viladequinta

External links

Valdeorras siteComarca de Valdeorras

References

Municipalities in the Province of Ourense {{galicia-geo-stub