Valdés, Asturias

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Valdés, Asturias


(In detail)	(In detail)

Principality of Asturias

Demonym
• Spanish

Judicial district

Population (2005)
• Total
• Density
• % of Asturias

Rank: 13
14,205 inhabitants
40.47 people/km²
1.31 %

Area
• Total
• % of Asturias

Rank: n/a
351 km²

Highest point

Peña Cezures, 1,010 m

Postcode

Mayor

Juan José Adolfo Fernández (PSOE)

Town council

Political parties

Website

Lighthouse and chapel of Good Jesus the Nazarene (La Atalaya).

Valdés is a Spanish municipality in the province of Asturias. Its capital is Luarca. It borders the Bay of Biscay on the north, the municipalities of Navia and Villayón on the west, Tineo on the south, Salas on the southeast, and Cudillero on the east. The rivers Esva, Negro and Barayo flow through the area. The national road N-634 is the main road serving the municipality.

[edit] Parishes

Alienes
Arcallana
Ayones
Barcia
Cadavedo

Canero
Carcedo
Castañeo
La Montaña
Luarca

Muñás
Otur
Paredes
Santiago
Trevías

[edit] Famous people

Álvaro de Albornoz y Liminiana (1879-1954), politician
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905-1993), biochemist, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1959.
Gil Parrondo y Rico (b. 1921), set decorator
Margarita Salas Folgueras (b. 1938), scientist

[edit] External links

Vaqueira wedding in Aristébano.

Townhall website (Spanish)
Federación Asturiana de Concejos (Asturian Federation of Municipalities) (Spanish)
Vivasturias (tourism page) (Spanish)
Images of Valdés

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